ennio e. piano

research

journal articles

Piano, Ennio E. (2023). A theory of the city-state: The rise and the decline of the rule of law in Medieval Italy. Kyklos, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E., and Piano, Clara E. (2022). Contracting Creativity: Patronage and Creative Freedom in the Italian Renaissance Art Markets. European Review of Economic History, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E., and Rouanet, Louis (2022). The Calculus of American Indian Consent. Public Choice, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E., and Rouanet, Louis (2022). Drafting the Great Army: The political economy of conscription in Napoleonic France. The Journal of Economic History, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E., and Piano, Clara E. (2022). Bargaining Over Beauty: The Economics of Contracts in Renaissance Art Markets. The Journal of Law and Economics, 66(2), 225-257. (Lead article).

Discussed on the Penn's Exchange Podcast

Piano, Ennio E., and Al-Bawwab, Rania (2023). The artist as entrepreneur. Review of Austrian Economics, 36, 23-41.

Discussed on MTSU on the record

Piano, Ennio E. (2022). Specialization and the firm in Renaissance Italian art. The Journal of Cultural Economics, 46, 659-697.

Piano, Ennio E., and Hardy, Tanner (2022). Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school. Public Choice, 192, 59-78.

Piano, Ennio E., and Piano, Clara E. (2021). In persona Christi Capitis: Agency problems when God is the principal. Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion, 2, 2150002.

Piano, Ennio E. (2021). Organizing high-end restaurants. Economics of Governance, 22, 165-192.

Leeson, Peter T., and Piano, Ennio E. (2021). The Golden Age of Mercenaries. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 429-446.

Piano, Ennio E., and Salter, Alexander W. (2021). The fundamental Coase of development: Property rights foundations of the effective state. Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(1), 37-52.

Piano, Ennio E. (2020) "Coase goes to war: Contract choice on the battlefield." Revue d'Economie Politique, 130(6), 1001-1023.

Rouanet, Louis, and Piano, Ennio E. (2020). Filling the ranks. European Review of Economic History, 24(4), 696-715.

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. (Introduction to a special issue in honor of Yoram Barzel).

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

Piano, Ennio E. "A theory of the city state: The rise and decline of the rule of law in Medieval and Renaissance Italy." Revisions resubmitted, Kyklos.

Piano, Ennio E., and Alvarez, Sean-Patrick. "Slave of two masters: The economics of 'slave-hiring' in the antebellum South."

Piano, Ennio E. "Economic explanations."

Leeson, Peter T., and Piano, Ennio E. "Property rights and public choice."

work in progress

Traditionis Custodes and the supply of the 'Traditional Latin Mass': Evidence from the Catholic Church in England and Wales (with Clara Piano)

The political economy of American Indian constitutions (with Louis Rouanet)

The political economy of manumission restrictions in the antebellum South (with Sean Alvarez)

The rise and fall of republican institutions in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (with Louis Rouanet)

The organization of the barbering industry (with Caleb Fuller)

teaching

fall 2023