I am Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Hood College. I previously had a stint at Wake Forest University.

I have a Ph.D and M.A. in Economics from George Mason University, and a B.A. in Economics from University of Connecticut. Go Huskies!

My research broadly explores the political economy of public goods, innovation & technological growth, and intellectual property using the tools of new institutional economics, public choice, and market process economics.

My research broadly broadly explores the political economy of public goods, innovation & technological growth, and intellectual property and I use the tools of new institutional economics, public choice, and market process economics. Read my statement of research interests.

Publications

1. Safner, Ryan, 2016. "Institutional Entrepreneurship, Wikipedia, and the Opportunity of the Commons," Journal of Institutional Economics (Forthcoming)
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2. Safner, Ryan, 2016. "The Perils of Copyright Regulation," Review of Austrian Economics 29(2): 121-137
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Research in Progress

Under Review

• “Public Good,” or “Good for the Public?” How Political Entrepreneurship Has Endogenized the Public Funding of Science (Revise & Resubmit)
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• Do Patronize Me: The Comparative Political Economy of Arts Patronage, Copyright, and Crowdfunding
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Working Papers

• Learning By Doing: Who’s Learning? Who’s Doing? and Other Production Function Myths (with Santiago Gangotena)
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• Pirate Thy Neighbor – The Protectionist Roots of International Copyright
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In Progress

• A Structural Analysis of Regulatory Capitalism (with Julia Norgaard and Vlad Tarko)
• Ideas, Institutions, and Technological Progress (with Santiago Gangotena)

Last Updated: 22 August 2013

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