Ryan Safner

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Dossier for Third Year Review at Hood College

Evidence of Scholarship

This page documents (in tabular form) all of my scholarly activities, including my publications and manuscripts, and conferences I have presented at.

Scholarly Publications

Below are links to my papers published in academic journals.

Safner, Ryan, 2016, “The perils of copyright regulation,” Review of Austrian Economics 29(2): 129-137 [Gated version]
Safner, Ryan, 2016, “Institutional entrepreneurship, wikipedia, and the opportunity of the commons,” Journal of Institutional Economics 12(4): 743-771 [Gated version]

Working Papers (Under Review or Readable Drafts)

Below are links to my drafts that are either under review or are readable. I may have improved some drafts after this dossier was sent. The latest readable draft of each paper can always be found at my SSRN page.

”‘Public Good’ or ‘Good for the Public?’ How Political Entrepreneurship Endogenized the Public Funding of Science” Under Review
“Pirate thy Neightbor: International Copyright Protectionism in the United States, 1790-2000”
“Learning by Doing: Who’s Learning? Who’s Doing? and Other Production Function Myths” (with Santiago Gangotena) Under Review
“A Tale of Two Capitals: Modeling the Interaction Between Ideas, Physical Capital, and Growth” (with Santiago Gangotena)

Works in Progress/Unreadable Drafts

Below is a list of works in progress at widely-varying states. Some projects have a paper draft that is readable, others do not - or it is undergoing heavy revisions that completely alter the paper. Some projects have accompanying slides for presentations that I gave at academic conferences about the project.

Distributing Patronage: Intellectual Property in the Transition from Natural States to Open Access Order [Slides]
Networks and Growth (with Santiago Gangotena, Pedro Romer, and Alex Xerves) [Slides]
Kickstart my Art: Is Crowdfunding a Substitute or a Complement to Intellectual Property Laws?
Crypto-Copyright: The Potential of Protecting Intellectual Property with the Blockchain
A Structural Analysis of Regulatory Capitalism (with Julia Norgaard and Vlad Tarko)

Consulting/Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

Mayor’s Strategic Opportunities Advisory Team, 2018: Report of the Economic Resilience Workgroup Public Report

Academic Conferences Attended (Presented At)

Conference Year Title Slides
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference 2019 A Tale of Two Capitals TBD
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference 2018 Distributing Patronage: Intellectual Property in the Transition from Natural State to Open Access Order [Slides]
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference 2017 The Network Origins of Economic Growth [Slides]
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference 2016 Ideas, Institutions, and Technological Progress [Slides]
Last updated on 15 Nov 2019
Published on 15 Nov 2019
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