Tate Fegley
Tate Fegley
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.
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Fegley, Tate and Ilia Murtazashvili (forthcoming). From Defunding to Refunding the Police: Institutions and the Persistence of Policing Budgets. Public Choice.
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.
Fegley, Tate. Policing and Economic Calculation.
Fegley, Tate, Kristoffer Mousten Hansen and Karl-Friedrich Israel. A Causal-Realist Analysis of Deadweight Loss from Taxation.
TEACHING
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)