| The determinants and impact of property rights: Land titles on the Brazilian frontier LJ Alston, GD Libecap, R Schneider The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 12 (1), 25-61, 1996 | 693 | 1996 |
| s, conflict, and land use: The development of property rights and land reform on the Brazilian Amazon frontier LJ Alston, GD Libecap, B Mueller University of Michigan Press, 1999 | 616 | 1999 |
| Land reform policies, the sources of violent conflict, and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon LJ Alston, GD Libecap, B Mueller Journal of environmental economics and management 39 (2), 162-188, 2000 | 488 | 2000 |
| Social norms and global environmental challenges: the complex interaction of behaviors, values, and policy AP Kinzig, PR Ehrlich, LJ Alston, K Arrow, S Barrett, TG Buchman, ... BioScience 63 (3), 164-175, 2013 | 423 | 2013 |
| Southern Paternalims and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965 LJ Alston, JP Ferrie Cambridge University Press, 1999 | 312 | 1999 |
| Pork for policy: executive and legislative exchange in Brazil LJ Alston, B Mueller Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 22 (1), 87-114, 2006 | 272 | 2006 |
| Empirical work in institutional economics: an overview LJ Alston Empirical studies in institutional change 1996, 25-30, 1996 | 248 | 1996 |
| Contractual mix in southern agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, hypotheses, and tests LJ Alston, R Higgs The Journal of Economic History 42 (2), 327-353, 1982 | 240 | 1982 |
| Why do banks fail? Evidence from the 1920s LJ Alston, WA Grove, DC Wheelock Explorations in Economic History 31 (4), 409-431, 1994 | 229 | 1994 |
| Empirical studies in institutional change LJ Alston, Þ Eggertsson, DC North Cambridge University Press, 1996 | 228 | 1996 |
| Farm foreclosures in the United States during the interwar period LJ Alston The Journal of Economic History 43 (4), 885-903, 1983 | 218 | 1983 |
| Paternalism in agricultural labor contracts in the US South: Implications for the growth of the welfare state LJ Alston, JP Ferrie The American economic review, 852-876, 1993 | 198 | 1993 |
| Resource coordination and transaction costs: A framework for analyzing the firm/market boundary LJ Alston, W Gillespie Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 11 (2), 191-212, 1989 | 177 | 1989 |
| Farm foreclosure moratorium legislation: A lesson from the past LJ Alston The American Economic Review 74 (3), 445-457, 1984 | 174 | 1984 |
| Brazil in transition: Beliefs, leadership, and institutional change C Pereira, LJ Alston, MA Melo, B Mueller Princeton University Press, 2016 | 173 | 2016 |
| Property rights and the preconditions for markets: the case of the Amazon frontier LJ Alston, GD Libecap, R Schneider Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)/Zeitschrift für …, 1995 | 172 | 1995 |
| A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil LJ Alston, GD Libecap, B Mueller Environment and Development Economics 4 (2), 135-160, 1999 | 159 | 1999 |
| El juego político en América Latina:¿ Cómo se deciden las políticas públicas? C Scartascini, PT Spiller, EH Stein, M Tommasi, LJ Alston, MA Melo, ... Inter-American Development Bank, 2011 | 156 | 2011 |
| Property rights and the state LJ Alston, B Mueller Handbook of new institutional economics, 573-590, 2005 | 150 | 2005 |
| Tenancy choice in a competitive framework with transactions costs LJ Alston, SK Datta, JB Nugent Journal of Political Economy 92 (6), 1121-1133, 1984 | 146 | 1984 |
