Vlad Tarko

Interests

Teaching

microeconomics, economic development, institutional economics, comparative economic systems, public choice, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought

Research

varieties of capitalism, institutional economics, polycentric governance, constitutional political economy, public choice, economic disequilibrium, agent-based modelling

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Aligica, P. D., Boettke, P. J., & Tarko, V. (2019). Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective: Political Economy Foundations. Oxford University Press.
• Tarko, V. (2017). Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography. Rowman \& Littlefield International.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2014). Capitalist Alternatives: Models, Taxonomies, Scenarios. Routledge.

Chapters

• Tarko, V. (2020). Open-sourcing civil society. In Exploring the Social and Political Economy of Alexis de Tocqueville. Palgrave.
• McPhail, E., & Tarko, V. (2017). The Evolution of Governance Structures in a Polycentric System. In Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Smart Decision-Making: Rational Decision-Making within the Bounds of Reason(pp 290--313). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Journals/Publications

• Tarko, V. (2021). Simple Rules for a More Inclusive Economy. European Journal of Law and Economics.
• Tarko, V. (2020). Understanding post-communist transitions: the relevance of Austrian economics. The Review of Austrian Economics, 33(1), 163--186.
• Farrant, A., & Tarko, V. (2019). James M. Buchanan's 1981 visit to Chile: Knightian democrat or defender of the "Devil's fix"?. The Review of Austrian Economics, 32(1), 1--20.
• Salter, A. W., & Tarko, V. (2019). Governing the banking system: an assessment of resilience based on Elinor Ostrom's design principles. Journal of Institutional Economics, 15(3), 505--519.
• Tarko, V., & Farrant, A. (2019). The efficiency of regulatory arbitrage. Public Choice.
• Tarko, V., & Gangotena, S. J. (2019). Freedom of Association and Its Discontents: The Calculus of Consent and the Civil Rights Movement. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 37B, 197--221.
• Ngo, C., & Tarko, V. (2018). Economic development in a rent-seeking society: socialism, state capitalism and crony capitalism in Vietnam. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 39(4), 481--499.
• Tarko, V., & O'Donnell, K. (2018). Escape from Europe: a calculus of consent model of the origins of liberal institutions in the North American colonies. Constitutional Political Economy.
• Salter, A. W., & Tarko, V. (2017). Polycentric banking and macroeconomic stability. Business and Politics, 19(2), 365--395.
• Boettke, P. J., Tarko, V., & Aligica, P. D. (2016). Why Hayek Matters: The Epistemic Dimension of Comparative Institutional Analysis. Advances in Austrian Economics, 21, 163--185.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2015). Crony Capitalism. CESifo DICE Report, 13(3), 27--32.
• Aligica, P., & Tarko, V. (2015). Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance and CSR under Value Heterogeneity. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), 17539.
• Tarko, V. (2015). Polycentric structure and informal norms: competition and coordination within the scientific community. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 28(1), 63--80.
• Tarko, V. (2015). The challenge of empirically assessing the effects of constitutions. Journal of Economic Methodology, 22(1), 46--76.
• Tarko, V. (2015). The role of ideas in political economy. The Review of Austrian Economics, 28(1), 17--39.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2014). Crony Capitalism: Rent Seeking, Institutions and Ideology. Kyklos, 67(2), 156--176.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2014). Institutional Resilience and Economic Systems: Lessons from Elinor Ostrom’s Work. Comparative Economic Studies, 56(1), 52--76.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2013). Co-Production, Polycentricity, and Value Heterogeneity: The Ostroms’ Public Choice Institutionalism Revisited. American Political Science Review, 107(04), 726--741.
• Tarko, V. (2013). Can probability theory deal with entrepreneurship?. The Review of Austrian Economics, 26(3), 329--345.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2012). Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond. Governance, 25(2), 237--262.
• Aligica, P. D., & Tarko, V. (2012). State capitalism and the rent-seeking conjecture. Constitutional Political Economy, 23(4), 357--379.
• Tarko, V., & Aligica, P. D. (2011). From “Broad Studies” to Internet-based “Expert Knowledge Aggregation”. Notes on the methodology and technology of knowledge integration. Futures, 43(9), 986--995.