Assistant Professor and Chair of Business and Economics
Montreat College
Email: tatefegley [at] protonmail.com
I study political economy with a focus on law and criminal justice institutions. My work has appeared in economics and criminal justice journals including Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Policing: An International Journal of Strategies and Management.
PUBLICATIONS
Fegley, Tate (2025). Policing and Economic Calculation. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.35297/001c.138137
Fegley, Tate and Łukasz Dominiak (2025). "Reply to Block on Property Rights and Gun Control." Journal of Libertarian Studies, 29(1), 19-30. https://doi.org/10.35297/001c.129701
Dominiak, Łukasz, Karl-Friedrich Israel and Tate Fegley (2025). "Pandemic Policies, Public Domain, and Libertarianism: Response to Slenzok." Journal of Libertarian Studies, 29(1), 47-66. https://doi.org/10.35297/001c.129469
Fegley, Tate and Karl-Friedrich Israel (2024). A Defense of Austrian Welfare Economics. Philosophical Problems in Science. (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce), (76), 19–42. https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.76.677
Fegley, Tate, Kristoffer Mousten Hansen and Karl-Friedrich Israel (2023). Clarifying the Analysis of Deadweight Loss from Taxation. Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 29(1), 61-78.
Fegley, Tate and Ilia Murtazashvili (2023). From Defunding to Refunding the Police: Institutions and the Persistence of Policing Budgets. Public Choice, (196), 123-140.
Lambert, Karras, Tate Fegley, Rosolino Candela, Peter Boettke, Stevan E. Phelan, Nikolai G. Wenzel, and J. Philipp Dapprich. (2023) Reply and Counter-Reply: On Cybersocialism. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (212), 300-310.
Lambert, Karras and Tate Fegley (2023). A Note on the Data and Preconditions of Economic Calculation in Light of “Big Data” and Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (206), 243-250.
Dominiak, Łukasz and Tate Fegley (2022). Contract Theory, Title Transfer, and Libertarianism. Diametros, (19)72, 1-25.
Crepelle, Adam, Tate Fegley, and Ilia Murtazashvili (2022). Military Societies: Self-governance and Criminal Justice in Indian Country. Public Choice, 193(1).
Crepelle, Adam, Tate Fegley, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (2022). Community Policing on American Indian Reservations: A Preliminary Investigation. Journal of Institutional Economics, (18)5, 843-860.
Fegley, Tate and Łukasz Dominiak (2021). Property Rights and Gun Control: A Reply to Block and Block. Journal of Libertarian Studies, 25(1), 272-280.
Fegley, Tate (2021). Institutional Incentives and Community Policing. Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(4), 701-715.
Fegley, Tate and Karl-Friedrich Israel (2020). The Disutility of Labor. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 23(2), 171-179.
Fegley, Tate (2020). Police Unions and Officer Privileges. The Independent Review, 25(2), 1-22.
Leeson, Peter T., M. Scott King and Tate Fegley (2019). Regulating Quack Medicine. Public Choice, 182(2), 1-14.
Fegley, Tate and Lisa Growette Bostaph (2018). Is Bigger Better? An Analysis of Economies of Scale and Market Power in Police Departments. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 41(5), 578-592.
Fegley, Tate (2016). Kevin Carson and the Freed Market: Is His Left-Libertarian Vision Plausible? Libertarian Papers, 8(2), 273-292.
Fegley, Tate (2015). Land Of The Free, Home Of The Imprisoned: A Comparison Of Incarceration Rates Among The U.S. And Other Industrialized Nations. Political Dialogues: Journal of Political Theory. 19. 21-32.
WORKING PAPERS
Bustamante, P. Tate Fegley, Marcela Gomez, Ilia Murtazashvili, Stephanie Rose, and Martin Weiss. The People’s Airwaves: Radical Markets and the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Bustamante, Pedro, Tate Fegley, Marcela Gomez, Ilia Murtazashvili, Stephanie Rose, and Martin Weiss. Radio Pirate Anarchy.
BOOK REVIEWS
Everyone against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice by Allen Goodman
Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most by Rafael A. Mangual
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarcerartion in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Fall 2023
Montreat College:
Introduction to Business
Macroeconomics
Quantitative Methods
Spring 2023
Montreat College:
Microeconomics (Syllabus)
Personal Finance (Syllabus)
The Political Economy of Policing (Syllabus)
Fall 2022
Montreat College:
Introduction to Business (Syllabus)
Macroeconomics (Syllabus)
Quantitative Methods (Syllabus)
Summer 2022
Bryan College:
Public Finance (online course shell) (Syllabus)
Spring 2021
University of Pittsburgh:
Senior Capstone - The Political Economy of Policing (Syllabus) (Evaluations)
Spring 2019
George Mason University:
International Economics (Syllabus) (Evaluations)
Fall 2018
George Mason University:
International Economic Policy (Syllabus) (Evaluations)