Emily C.
Skarbek, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Economics

San Jose
State University
Articles
"Associations and Order in The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery" (with P. Green), 2011, Studies in Emergent Order, Vol.3: 69-79.

"Sweatshops, Opportunity Costs, and Non-Monetary Compensation: Evidence from El Salvador" (with D. Skarbek et al), forthcoming, American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

"Peter J. Boettke's Approach to Mentoring 'Mainline' Economists", (2010) Journal of Private Enterprise, 26(1) 143-152.

"Coordinating the Reconstruction of Haiti", Journal of International Peace Operations, 2010, Vol.6(2): 25-28.
“The Context of Context: The Evolution of F.A. Hayek's Epistemological Turn in Economics and Politics” (with P. Boettke and N. Snow), Advances in Austrian Economics, 2010, Volume 14.

"The Political Economy of Urban Reconstruction, Development, and Planning", Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 2(1) 2009.

"Remittances and Reputations in Hawala Money-Transfer Systems:  Self-Enforcing Exchange on an International Scale", Journal of Private Enterprise, 2008, 24(1) 95-117

"The Economics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Casualty of Leasing Law or Candidate for Privatization?" (with W. Block),  Energy and Environment, 2007, 18(1): 74-85



Articles in Progress

"Entrepreneurship and Expertise", Working Paper (under review), 2011 

“The Chicago Fire of 1871: The Political Economy of Polycentric Disaster Relief", Working Paper, 2012

“Smithian Sympathy and Charitable Giving”, Working Paper, 2012.

"The Chicago Fire of 1871: An Empirical Analysis of Housing Investment" (with D. Macaulay), Working Paper, 2010