ennio e. piano
research
journal articles
Piano, Ennio E. (2021). Organizing high-end restaurants. Economics of Governance, forthcoming.
Piano, Ennio E. (2021). In persona Christi Capitis: Agency problems when God is the principal. Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion, forthcoming.
Piano, Ennio E., and Al-Bawwab, Rania (2021). The artist as entrepreneur. Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
Discussed on MTSU on the record
Leeson, Peter T., and Piano, Ennio E. (2020). The Golden Age of Mercenaries. European Review of Economic History, forthcoming.
Piano, Ennio E. (2020) "Coase goes to war: Contract choice on the battlefield." Revue d'Economie Politique, forthcoming.
Piano, Ennio E., and Salter, Alexander W. (2020). The fundamental Coase of development: Property rights foundations of the effective state. Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming.
Rouanet, Louis, and Piano, Ennio E. (2020). Filling the ranks. European Review of Economic History, forthcoming.
Piano, Ennio E. (2020). Desertion as theft. Journal of Institutional Economics, 16(2), 169-183. .
Piano, Ennio E., and Carson, Trey. (2020). Scalp-taking. Rationality and Society, 32(1), 40–66.
Boettke, P. J., & Piano, E. E. (2019). Capital, Calculation, and Coordination. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 37, 9-24.
Piano, Ennio E. (2019). State capacity and public choice: A critical survey. Public Choice, 178(1-2), 289-309.
Murtazashvili, I., & Piano, E. E. (2019). More Boon Than Bane How the US Reaped the Rewards and Avoided the Costs of the Shale Boom. The Independent Review , 24(27), 249-272.
Lucas, D. S., Fuller, C. S., Piano, E. E., & Coyne, C. J. (2018). Visions of entrepreneurship policy. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 7(4), 336-356.
Fuller, Caleb, Lucas, David S., and Piano, Ennio E. (2018). Rooking the state. International Review of Law and Economics, 55, 12-20.
Piano, Ennio E., and Rouanet, L. (2018). "Economic calculation and the organization of markets." Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
Murtazashvili, I., and Piano, Ennio E. (2018) "Governance of Shale Gas Development: Insights from the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis." Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
Piano, E. E. (2018). Outlaw and economics: Biker gangs and club goods. Rationality and Society, 30(3), 350-376.
Discussed on the Economics Detective Podcast
Piano, Ennio E. (2017). Free riders: The economics and organization of outlaw motorcycle gangs. Public Choice, 171, 283–301.
Discussed on the Economics Detective Podcast
Boettke, Peter J. and Piano, Ennio E. (2016). Baumol’s productive and unproductive entrepreneurship after 25 years. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 5, 130–144.
other publications
Candela, Rosolino, and Piano, Ennio E. (2019). The art and science of economic explanation. Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming.
Boettke, Peter J., Palagashvili, Liya, and Piano, Ennio E. (2017). Federalism and police: An applied theory of fiscal attention. Arizona State Law Journal, 49, 907-933 .
Palagashvili, Liya, Piano, Ennio E., and Skarbek, David. (2017). The rise and fall of institutions. Elements in Austrian Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
books
Murtazashvili, Ilia, and Piano, Ennio E. (2018). The political economy of fracking: Private property, polycentricity, and the shale revolution. New York: Routledge.
working papers
Rouanet, Louis, and Piano, Ennio E. "Drafting the Great Army: Optimal conscription in Napoleonic France" (SSRN working paper). Major revisions requested, The Journal of Economic History.
Piano, Ennio E. "Specialization and the firm in Renaissance Italian art" (SocArXiv working paper). Under review.
Fuller, Caleb, and Piano, Ennio E. "Organizing the barbershop."
Piano, Ennio E. "Economic explanations"
work in progress
The organization of the barbering industry (with Caleb Fuller)
The economics of high-end restaurants (with Paola Suarez)
Transaction costs in the Renaissance art market
Metal theft (with Ben Stickle)
teaching
spring 2021
Econ 2420: Principles of Microeconomics
Econ 7660: History of Economic Thought
fall 2020
Econ 2410: Principles of Macroeconomics
Econ 2410: Principles of Microeconomics
spring 2020
Econ 2420: Principles of Microeconomics
Econ 3500: The Economics of the Past
fall 2019
Econ 2410: Principles of Macroeconomics
Econ 2420: Principles of Microeconomics
spring 2018
Econ 309: Economic Problems of Public Policy
Econ 365: Topics in Economic History
fall 2017
Econ 365: Topics in Economic History
Econ 340: Introduction to Mathematical Economics
Last update: December 2020
I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University and a faculty member at the Political Economy Research Institute. I am also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Organizations and Contracts. I study the organization of incentives in a variety of contexts, from 19th century armies to motorcycle gangs, from high-end restaurants to Renaissance art markets.