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.
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Safner, Ryan, 2016, “The perils of copyright regulation,” Review of Austrian Economics 29(2): 129-137 | [Gated version] |
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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.
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
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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] |






