Roger Koppl

Papers

• The Penrosean spinout: A new spin on the theory of the entrepreneurial firm

  Diaz, F., Minniti, M.

Publications

• Of thoughts and things: How a new model of evolution explains the coevolution of culture and technology

  2025 Review of Evolutionary Political Economy,

• Creative evolution in economics

  2024 Journal of Evolutionary Economics,34,489-514, Devereaux, A., Kauffman, S.

• Public health and expert failure

  2023 Public Choice,195,101-124,

• Against Expertism

  2021 Review of Behavioral Economics,8,3-4,361-377,

• Scheall on the Epistemic Limits of Policy

  2021 Cosmos + Taxis,9,3-4,23-34,

• Expert failure and pandemics: On adapting to life with pandemics

  2021 Cosmos + Taxis,9,5-6,7-17, Murphy, J., Devereaux, A., Goodman, N.

• On the emergence of ecological and economic niches

  2020 Journal of Bioeconomics,22,2,99-127, Cazzolla Gatti, R., Fath, B., Kauffman, S., Hordijk, W., Ulanowicz, R.

• Letter to the Editor: Do Court-Assessed Fees Induce Laboratory Contingency Bias in Crime Laboratories?

  2020 Journal of Forensic Sciences,65,5,1793-1794,

• Response Paper (in "Symposium on Roger Koppl's Expert Failure")

  2019 Cosmos + Taxis,7,1-2,73-84,

• Letter to the Editor: Reply to Biedermann and Gittelson

  2019 Science & justice; Formerly known as journal of the Forensic Science Society,59,4,467-469,

• Strategic Choice in Linear Sequential Unmasking

  2019 Science & justice; Formerly known as journal of the Forensic Science Society,59,2,166-171,

• Leland Bennett Yeager: 1924–2018

  2019 Independent Review, The,23,3,435-442,

• Appropriate standards for verification and validation of probabilistic genotyping systems

  2018 Journal of Forensic Sciences,63,1,339-340, Adams, N., Krane, D., Thompson, W., Zabell, S.

• Rules vs. discretion under computability constraints

  2017 4,1,32,

• Still Against Design: A Response to Steven Calabresi, Sanford Levinson and Vernon Smith

  2016 Arizona State Law Journal ,48,1,241-248, Devins, C., Kauffman, S., Felin, T.

• Economics for a creative world

  2015 Journal of Institutional Economics,11,1 ,1–31, KAUFFMAN, S., FELIN, T., LONGO, G.

• Do Observer Effects Matter? A Comment on Langenburg, Bochet, and Ford

  2015 Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal,6,1-2,1-6, Charlton, D., Kornfield, I., Krane, D., Risinger, M., Robertson, C., Saks, M., Thompson, W.

• Economics for a creative world: a response to comments

  2015 Journal of Institutional Economics,11,1 ,61-68, KAUFFMAN, S., FELIN, T., LONGO, G.

• Against Design

  2015 Arizona State Law Journal,47,3,609-681, Devins, C., Stuart, K., Teppo, F.

• Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality

  2014 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,8,4,269–282, Felin, T., Kauffman, S., Longo, G.

• Using procedural justice to understand, explain, and prevent decision-making errors in forensic sciences

  2013 Organization Management Journal,10,2,99-109, Behson, S.

• The Criminal Justice System Creates Incentives for False Convictions

  2013 Criminal Justice Ethics,32,2,126-162, Sacks, M.

• Experts and information choice

  2012 Advances in Austrian Economics,17,171-202, Koppl, R., Horwitz, S., Dobuzinskis, L.

• Hayek, Keynes, and modern macroeconomics

  2012 25,3,223-241, Luther, W.

• Leveraging Bias in Forensic Science

  2012 Fordham Urban Law Journal,39,37,

• Speaking of experts: An introduction to the volume

  2012 Advances in Austrian Economics,17,1-16, Koppl, R., Horwitz, S., Dobuzinskis, L.

• Monetary policy regimes in macroeconomic data: An application of fractal analysis

  2011 Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,51,2,201-211, Mulligan, R.

• Alfred Schutz Interview on Economics and Politics

  2011 Schutzian Research,3,15–24, Augier, M.

• Against representative agent methodology

  2011 24,1,43-55,

• An experimental study of blind proficiency tests in forensic science

  2011 24,3,251-271, Cowan, E.

• Commentary on: Thornton JI. Letter to the editor-a rejection of "working blind" as a cure for contextual bias. J Forensic Sci 2010;55(6):1663

  2011 Journal of Forensic Sciences,56,2,562-563, Thompson, W., Ford, S., Gilder, J., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kornfield, I., Krane, D., Mnookin, J., Risinger, D., Rudin, N., Saks, M., Zabell, S.

• Introduction to the Schutz Interview

  2011 Schutzian Research. A Yearbook of Lifeworldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science,3,15–24, Augier, M.

• An economic perspective on “Unanalyzed evidence in law-enforcement agencies

  2010 CRIMINOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY,9,2,411-419, Cowan, E.

• Organization economics explains many forensic science errors

  2010 Journal of Institutional Economics,6,1,71-81,

• Confessions of a neuro-Hayekian

  2010 Advances in Austrian Economics,13,391-397,

• The Preaching Must Never Stop Remembering Larry Moss

  2010 69,1,58-63,

• A battle of forensic experts is not a race to the bottom

  2010 Review of Political Economy,22,2,235-262, Cowan, E.

• The social construction of expertise

  2010 Society,47,3,220-226,

• Introduction: Regrettably exciting times

  2010 Advances in Austrian Economics,14,1-23,

• A perspective on errors, bias, and interpretation in the forensic sciences and direction for continuing advancement

  2010 Journal of Forensic Sciences,55,1,273-274, Krane, D., Ford, S., Gilder, J., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kornfield, I., Michael Risinger, D., Rudin, N., Scott Taylor, M., Thompson, W.

• Rational bias in forensic science

  2010 Law, Probability and Risk,9,1,69–90, Whitman, G.

• Some epistemological implications of economic complexity

  2010 International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,76,3,859-872,

• Evolutionary forensic psychology: Darwinian Foundations of Crime and Law

  2009 EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR,30,5,377-379,

• Authors' response

  2009 Journal of Forensic Sciences,54,6,1500-1501, Krane, D., Ford, S., Gilder, J., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kornfield, I., Risinger, D., Rudin, N., Thompson, W., Taylor, M.

• The New Interventionist Economics

  2009

• Time for DNA disclosure

  2009 Science,326,5960,1631-1632, Krane, D., Bahn, V., Balding, D., Barlow, B., Cash, H., Desportes, B., D’Eustachio, P., Devlin, K., Doom, T., Dror, I., Ford, S., Funk, C., Gilder, J., Hampikian, G., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kent, P., Kornfield, I., Krimsky, S., Mnookin, J., Mueller, L., Murphy, E., Paoletti, D., Petrov, D., Raymer, M., Risinger, D., Roth, A., Rudin, N., Shields, W., Siegel, J., Slatkin, M., Song, Y., Speed, T., Spiegelman, C., Sullivan, P., Swienton, A., Tarpey, T., Thompson, W., Ungvarsky, E., Zabell, S.

• Darwin, Darwinism and social Darwinism: What do we learn from Darwin's theory of social evolution?

  2009 International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,71,1,1-3, Marciano, A.

• Authors' response

  2009 Journal of Forensic Sciences,54,2,501, Krane, D., Ford, S., Gilder, J., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kornfield, I., Michael Risinger, D., Rudin, N., Taylor, M., Thompson, W.

• Comments on the review of low copy number testing

  2009 International Journal of Legal Medicine,123,6,535-536, Gilder, J., Kornfield, I., Krane, D., Mueller, L., Thompson, W.

• Computable Entrepreneurship

  2008 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,32,5,919-926,

• Bayesian Bias in Forensics

  2008 Whitman, G.

• Introduction

  2008 Advances in Austrian Economics,11,1-6, Koppl, R.

• Epistemics for forensics

  2008 Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology,5,2, Kurzban, R., Kobilinsky, L.

• Thinking impossible things: A review essay

  2008 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,66,3-4,837–847,

• Sequential unmasking: A means of minimizing observer effects in forensic DNA interpretation

  2008 Journal of Forensic Sciences,53,4,1006-1007, Krane, D., Ford, S., Gilder, J., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kornfield, I., Michael Risinger, D., Rudin, N., Taylor, M., Thompson, W.

• CSI for r eal

  2007

• Diversity and forensics: Diversity in hiring is not enough

  2007 Medicine, Science and the Law,47,2,117-124,

• Breaking Up the Forensics Monopoly: Eight ways to fix a broken system

  2007 Reason,39,6,44,

• Does The Sensory Order have a Useful Economic Future?

  2006 Advances in Austrian Economics,9,19-50, Butos, W., Krecke, E., Koppl, R.

• Austrian economics at the cutting edge

  2006 19,4,231-241,

• Epistemic systems

  2006 Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology,2,02,91–106,

• Bruce Caldwell, Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of FA Hayek, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London (2004) 489+ xi pp., index, US $55.00, ISBN 0-226-09191-0

  2006 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,59,2,287–291,

• 1 A zeal for truth

  2006 Money and markets: essays in honor of Leland B. Yeager,1,

• Entrepreneurial behavior as a human universal

  2006 Entrepreneurship: The engine of growth,1,1–19,

• Democratic Epistemics: An Experiment on Reducing errors in Forensic Science and Other Areas

  2006 Papers on Economics and Evolution,

• 5 Big Players and money demand

  2005 Modern applications of Austrian thought,68,95, Gilanshah, C.

• How to improve forensic science

  2005 European Journal of Law and Economics,20,3,255-286,

• Rational-choice hermeneutics

  2004 International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,55,3,295-317, Whitman, D.

• CONFIDENCE IN KEYNES AND HAYEK

  2004 Friedrich A. Hayek,4,213, Butos, W.

• Keynes and Hayek on expectations

  2004 Friedrich A. Hayek,3,2,107, Butos, W.

• ECONOMICS EVOLVING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME

  2004 Advances in Austrian Economics,7,1-16,

• Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox: Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten (Eds.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, UK, 2001, 377+ xv pp., index, ISBN 0-262-57164-1, $26.00

  2004 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,53,3,431–434,

• Carabelli & De Vecchi on Keynes and Hayek

  2004 Review of Political Economy,16,2,239-247, Butos, W.

• 11 Big players in the ‘new economy’

  2004 Markets, information and communication: Austrian perspectives on the Internet economy,231, Sarjanovic, I.

• GAINS FROM TRADE BETWEEN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME

  2003 Advances in Austrian Economics,6,1-7,

• Science as a spontaneous order: An essay in the economics of science

  2003 The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge,189–208, Butos, W.

• Big Players in Slovenia

  2003 16,2-3,253-269, Mramor, D.

• What is alertness?

  2002 Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines,12,1,2,

• Custom and rules

  2002 American Journal of Economics and Sociology,61,2,531-537,

• All that I have to Say has already Crossed your Mind

  2002 Metroeconomica,53,4,339–360, Rosser, Jr, B., others

• Random Walk Hypothesis Testing and the Compass Rose

  2002 Finance Research Letters,2,1,14–17, Tuluca, S.

• Symposium on Ekkehart Schlicht’s on custom in the economy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)

  2002 American Journal of Economics and Sociology,61,2,505–594, Mäki, U., Moss, L., BLAUG, M., VROMEN, J., KLAES, M., ANTONIDES, G., GROENEWEGEN, J., KRUG, B., WAGNER, R., others

• Alfred schütz and george shackle: Two views of choice

  2001 14,2-3,181-191,

• Organizations and language games

  2001 Journal of Management and Governance,5,3-4,287-305, Langlois, R.

• Alchemies of the Mind: Jon Elster, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999, 450+ xii pp., Index, ISBN 0-521-64279-5, US $59.95

  2001 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,45,3,332–335,

• The angular distribution of asset returns in delay space

  2001 Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society,6,2,101–120, Nardone, C.

• Confidence in Keynes and Hayek: reply to Burczak

  2001 Review of Political Economy,13,1,81–86, Butos, W.

• Introduction

  2001 Review of Austrian Economics, The,14,2,111–117, Boettke, P.

• Fritz Machlup and Behavioralism

  2000 Industrial and Corporate Change,9,4,595-622,

• Policy implications of complexity: An Austrian perspective

  2000 The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics,97–117,

• Remembrance and appreciation roundtable professor Ludwig m. Lachmann (1906-1990): scholar, teacher, and Austrian school critic of late classical formalism in economics

  2000 American Journal of Economics and Sociology,59,3, Boehm, S., Kirzner, I., Lavoie, D.

• Teaching complexity: an austrian approach

  2000 The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics,

• Embeddedness, Organizations, and Language Games

  2000 Paper for, Langlois, R.

• Big players and entrepreneurial activity: Keynesian policies and the Kaleidic economy

  1999 Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, Butos, W.

• Apriorism and dualism

  1999 Advances in Austrian Economics,5,159–179,

• Big players and the Russian rouble: explaining volatility dynamics

  1999 Managerial Finance,25,1,49–63, Paul Broussard, J.

• Expectations: Results from a Program in Subjectivist Economics’

  1999 Fairleigh Dickinson University,

• Hayek and Kirzner at the Keynesian beauty contest

  1999 Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines,9,2-3,257–276, Butos, W.

• The unintended consequences of entrepreneurship

  1999 Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines,9,4, Minniti, M.

• Explaining Volatility Dynamics: The Case of the Russian Ruble

  1999 Managerial Finance,25,1,49–63, Broussard, J.

• Lachmann on the subjectivism of active minds

  1998 Subjectivism and Economic Analysis: Essays in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann, New York and London: Routledge,

• The Angular Distribution of Asset Returns in Delay Space

  1997 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, Department of Economics and Finance, working paper, February, Nardone, C.

• Review of Uskali M‰ ki, Bo Gustafsson, and Christian Knudsen, editors, Rationality, Institutions and Economic Methodology

  1997 Emerald Group Publishing Limited,

• Mises and Schutz on ideal types

  1997 Cultural Dynamics,9,1,63-76,

• persistence in closed-end country funds Alexander, PJ, Product variety and market structure: A new measure and a simple test Allen, DS, A multi-sector inventory model

  1997 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,32,625–627, Ahmed, E., Rosser, Jr, J., White, M., others

• It is high time take our ignorance more seriously

  1997 International Review of Financial Analysis,5,3,259–272,

• The Varieties of Subjectivism: Keynes and Hayek on Expectations

  1997 History of Political Economy,29,2,327-359, Butos, W.

• Complex bubble persistence in closed-end country funds

  1997 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,32,1,19-37, Ahmed, E., Rosser, J., White, M.

• The philosophy of the Austrian school: London, Routledge, 1993

  1996 Advances in Austrian Economics,3,239–242,

• Big players and herding in asset markets: The case of the Russian ruble

  1996 Explorations in Economic History,33,3,367-383, Yeager, L.

• It is high time we take our ignorance more seriously

  1996 International Review of Financial Analysis,5,3,259-272,

• Man has fallen and he can’t get up: An essay on postmodernism and advertising

  1996 Advertising and culture: Theoretical perspectives,75–84,

• The Walras Paradox

  1995 Eastern Economic Journal,43–55,

• When do ideas matter? A study in the natural selection of social games

  1994 Advances in Austrian Economics,1,81–104, Langlois, R.

• 10 Ideal type methodology in economics

  1994 The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics,72,

• 29 ‘Invisible hand’explanations

  1994 The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics,192,

• Lachmann on Schütz and Shackle

  1994 Advances in Austrian Economics,1,289–301,

• Hayekian expectations: Theory and empirical applications

  1993 Constitutional Political Economy,4,3,303-329, Butos, W.

• Price theory as physics: The Cartesian influence on Walras

  1992 Methodus,4,17–28,

• Reply [Retrospectives: Animal Spirits]

  1992 Journal of Economic Perspectives,6,3,211–12,

• What is the public interest?

  1992 Business Ethics and Common Sense,

• Invisible-hand explanations and neoclassical economics: toward a post marginalist economics

  1992 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE),292–313,

• Fritz Machlup and marginalism: a reevaluation

  1991 Methodus,3,2,86–102, Langlois, R.

• Retrospectives: animal spirits

  1991 Journal of Economic Perspectives,5,3,203–210,

• The twin hockey sticks of technological change

  Review of Behavioral Economics,

• On democracy and capitalism: Reflections on Gerhard Wegner’s historical analysis

  Journal of Contextual Economics (Schmollers Jahrbuch),forthcoming,

• The cacophony within law and macroeconomics

  Journal of Contextual Economics (Schmollers Jahrbuch),

• Emergence of autocatalytic sets in a simple model of technological evolution

  Journal of Evolutionary Economics,33,1519-1535, Hordijk, W., Kauffman, S.

• Comments on Butos and McQuade

  Cosmos + Taxis,

• On democracy and capitalism: Reflections on Gerhard Wegner's historical analysis

  Journal of Contextual Economics (Schmollers Jahrbouch),

• Jan 01, 2016

  Elinor Ostrom Prize

  World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research
• Jan 01, 2015

  Special recognition of my proposal "Cross-lab Redundancy in Forensic Science," submitted to Pioneer's 2015 Better Government Competition.

  Pioneer Institute
• Jan 01, 2011

  Received - Templeton Freedom Award

  National Center for Policy Analysis

• Former state lab worker breaks silence on Nick Clavier case: ‘I still carry a lot of guilt’

  July 18, 2023 6 News, Richmond

• Trust Us

  December 01, 2022 Pacific Legal Foundation

• Senator Markey takes a dive

  December 01, 2022 Liberty Fund, Inc.

• The Biden administration’s latest online speech plan is as Orwellian as the last

  July 09, 2022 The Hill

• Biden’s Ministry of Truth paints America’s new face

  May 16, 2022 Arab News

• Mind your manners, America, or the truth squad will step in

  May 05, 2022 The Hill

• Biden Establishes a Ministry of Truth

  May 02, 2022 Wall Street Journal

• Society Advances One Dead Economist at a Time with Roger Koppl

  August 21, 2021 All Power To The Imagination

• Narrow and unbalanced Sage leaves the Government in a lockdown bind

  July 18, 2021 The Sunday Telegraph

• The Scientific Experts Have Failed – Terminate their Tyranny

  February 16, 2021 The Times of Israel

• Robinhood and Redditors: Who's robbin' who?

  February 02, 2021 EconLib

• Expert Failure: Time to Dismantle the “Public Health” Police State

  December 02, 2020 Arizona Daily Independent

• We need a market for expert advice, and competition among experts

  November 03, 2020 IEA UK

• The government and its experts aren't asking themselves the right questions before they restrict our fundamental freedoms

  September 30, 2020 The House

• Q2 2020 Hedge Fund Holdings: Top Stocks, New Buys & More

  August 27, 2020 Wallet Hub

• People Are Right to Be Skeptical of Experts. That's Why We Need More of Them.

  July 29, 2020 RealClearPolicy

• Mother Nature Isn't Human Nature: A Wicked Problem

  May 14, 2020 EconLib

• The fallen state of experts

  May 08, 2020 The Critic

• Pandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure (cont.)

  April 02, 2020 EconLib

• Pandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure (continued)

  March 31, 2020 econlib.org

• Pandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure

  March 30, 2020 econlib.org

• Value expertise but fear expert power and monopoly (guest: Roger Koppl)

  December 10, 2019 Heartland Institute

• Roger Koppl: Expert Failure

  September 05, 2019 This Is Not a Pipe Podcast

• How do we improve forensics?

  August 26, 2019 Washington Post

• How Do We Reconcile Law Science?

  August 06, 2019 Washington Post

• How much should juries rely on expert testimony?

  July 16, 2019 Washington Post

• We need to fix forensics. But how?

  June 20, 2019 Washington Post

• Flawed forensics, 20,000 wrongful convictions and government's culpability

  June 18, 2019 Heartland Institute

• Il Populismo Ereditato Dalla Crisi Degli Esperti

  October 05, 2018 Il Sole 24 Ore

• Q2 2018 Hedge Fund Holdings: Top Stocks, New Buys & More

  August 30, 2018 WalletHub

• We Need to Talk About Bess

  July 23, 2018 History Today