Daniel J D’Amico
Biographic Data
| ID | 6038162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J D’Amico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J |
| FAMILY NAME | D’Amico |
| SIGNATURE | D’AMICO D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Law is the Last to Know: Evidence That De Facto Progress Drives De Jure Women's Rights
This paper examines how improvements in women's formal legal rights shape economic and social outcomes across countries. Using the Gender Disparity Index from the Economic Freedom of the World dataset, we analyze cases where countries experienced substantial increases in women's legal rights sustained for at least 5 years. Contrary to expectations, our findings show that such policy changes did not yield better economic and social outcomes. To ex…
Can experimental methods put Smithian sympathy to the test
State Capitalism in the United States: The Military and Prison Industrial Complexes
This paper describes the unique incentives at play within state produced and managed military and prison industries under democratic political arrangements. Unlike competitive market economies wherein competition guides productive and allocative efficiency, centrally managed state industries deviate from social efficiency in so far as discretion holders perceive value from growth, and or voting electorates exhibit bias. Thus, the proclivity for d…
An empirical examination of institutions and cross-country incarceration rates
The law and economics of sycophancy
The Social Provision of Punishment and Incarceration
Standard economic theory proposes that public goods (equally available to everyone) will be underprovided by private markets. Individuals can benefit without having to pay, so there is little incentive to invest or manage resources efficiently. The punishment of criminals is an example of this, since everyone in a society benefits from reduced crime whether they pay to apprehend criminals or not. On that basis, it is widely presumed that governme…
A Discussion of Sanford Schram’s The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy
Sanford Schram’s The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford University Press, 2015) is an ambitious effort to link together three important political realities of our time: the rise of new forms of neoliberal governance, the associated rise of new forms of social and economic insecurity, and the recent development of organized forms of political resistance symbolized by the figure of “Occupy.” The argument is rele…
Spontaneous Order
This chapter discusses the theoretical substance and history of thought surrounding the theory of spontaneous orders. Whereas significant debate remains regarding the term’s particular origins and appropriate applications, this chapter provides a conceptual framework for categorizing orderly systems according to their agent types and the degree of complexity created by the presence of alternative interests. A substantial and meaningful difference…
The prison in economics: Private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece
The prison in economics: Private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece
Spontaneous Order
This chapter discusses the theoretical substance and history of thought surrounding the theory of spontaneous orders. Whereas significant debate remains regarding the term’s particular origins and appropriate applications, this chapter provides a conceptual framework for categorizing orderly systems according to their agent types and the degree of complexity created by the presence of alternative interests. A substantial and meaningful difference…
A Discussion of Sanford Schram’s The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy
Sanford Schram’s The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford University Press, 2015) is an ambitious effort to link together three important political realities of our time: the rise of new forms of neoliberal governance, the associated rise of new forms of social and economic insecurity, and the recent development of organized forms of political resistance symbolized by the figure of “Occupy.” The argument is rele…
The Social Provision of Punishment and Incarceration
Standard economic theory proposes that public goods (equally available to everyone) will be underprovided by private markets. Individuals can benefit without having to pay, so there is little incentive to invest or manage resources efficiently. The punishment of criminals is an example of this, since everyone in a society benefits from reduced crime whether they pay to apprehend criminals or not. On that basis, it is widely presumed that governme…
The law and economics of sycophancy
An empirical examination of institutions and cross-country incarceration rates
State Capitalism in the United States: The Military and Prison Industrial Complexes
This paper describes the unique incentives at play within state produced and managed military and prison industries under democratic political arrangements. Unlike competitive market economies wherein competition guides productive and allocative efficiency, centrally managed state industries deviate from social efficiency in so far as discretion holders perceive value from growth, and or voting electorates exhibit bias. Thus, the proclivity for d…
The Law is the Last to Know: Evidence That De Facto Progress Drives De Jure Women's Rights
This paper examines how improvements in women's formal legal rights shape economic and social outcomes across countries. Using the Gender Disparity Index from the Economic Freedom of the World dataset, we analyze cases where countries experienced substantial increases in women's legal rights sustained for at least 5 years. Contrary to expectations, our findings show that such policy changes did not yield better economic and social outcomes. To ex…
Can experimental methods put Smithian sympathy to the test
Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public finance (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works)