Alex Tabarrok Interviewed on Freakonomics Radio: The Economics of Bounty Hunting

Independent Institute Research Director Alex Tabarrok is interviewed by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics Radio in “To Catch a Fugitive,” on the enormous advantages of private bounty hunting over government police enforcement of bail jumping.

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Here also is a transcript of the interview.

Please also see the following books from Dr. Tabarrok:

Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial, authored with Eric Helland

Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime

Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science

The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, edited with David Beito and Peter Gordon

Here also are key related articles by him:

“The Bounty Hunter’s Pursuit of Justice” (Wilson Quarterly, January 2011)

“The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Privateers” (The Independent Review, Spring 2007)

“Bring on the Bounty Hunters”

David J. Theroux (1949–2022) was Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Institute.
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