Paul Rubin

Paul Rubin

Publications

Selected Publications:

Books:

Rubin, Paul H. Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom. Rutgers Series in Human Evolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Rubin, Paul H., and Thomas Lenard. Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information. Foreward by Senator Orin Hatch. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers and Progress and Freedom Foundation, 2001.

Chapters in Books:

“Hayek and Modern Evolutionary Theory,” in Advances in Austrian Economics Vol. 7, 2004, (special issue on Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, edited by Roger Koppl), with Evelyn Gick, 79-100.

Journals:

Rubin, Paul H., “Pharmaceutical Marketing: Medical and Industry Biases,” Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics, and Policy 13:2 (2004): 65-78.

_____, “Emporophiobia: (Fear of Markets): Cooperation of Competition,” Southern Economic Journal (Presidential Address), April 2014, 875-889.

_____, “Micro and Macro Legal Efficiency: Supply and Demand,” Supreme Court Economic Review 13 (2005): 19-34.

_____, “Public Choice and Tort Reform,” Public Choice, 124:1-2 (July 2005): 223-236. This was part of a special issue, “Policy Challenges and Political Responses: Public Choice Perspectives on the Post-9/11 World,” edited by William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison.

_____, “Fitness, Utility, and Immigration: Reply to Salter,” Journal of Bioeconomics 9:1 (June 2007): 53-67.

_____, “Folk Economics,” Southern Economic Journal 70, no. 1 (July, 2003): 157–171.

_____, “Pathological Altruism and Pathological Regulation,” Cato Journal 34, no. 1.       

Rubin, Paul H., Hashem Dezhbakhsh, and Joanna Mehlop Shepherd, “Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect?,” American Law and Economics Review 5, no. 2 (2003): 344-376.

Rubin, Paul H., and Hugo Mialon, “The Economics of the Bill of Rights,” American Law and Economics Review 10, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 1-60. (Lead article)

Rubin, Paul H., and Adam Atherly, “The Cost Effectiveness of Direct to Consumer Advertising for Prescription Drugs,” Medical Care Research and Review 66 (December 2009): 639-657.

Rubin, Paul H., Morris Hoffman, and Joanna Shepherd, “An Empirical Study of Public Defender Effectiveness: Self-Selection by the ‘Marginally Indigent’,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (2005): 223-255.

Rubin, Paul H., Hugo Mialon, and Joel Schrag, “Judicial Hierarchies and the Rule-Individual Tradeoff,” Supreme Court Economic Review 15 (2007): 3-20. (Lead article)

Rubin, Paul H., and Joanna Shepherd, “Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths,” Journal of Law and Economics 50:2 (May 2007): 221-238. (Lead article)

Rubin, Paul H., Erling Eide, and Joanna Shepherd, “The Economics of Crime,” Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 2:2 (2006): 291-363.

Rubin, Paul H., Mark Bergen, Daniel Levy, Sourav Ray, and Benjamin Zeliger, “When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws,” Journal of Law and Economics 51 (2004).

Rubin, Paul H., “Evolved Behaviors, Recursive Hierarchies, And The Growth Of The State,” Tidsskriftet Politik 9:4 (February 2007): 48-55.

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