Research
Selected Journal Articles
Lucas, David S. “The Effect of Regime Change on Entrepreneurship: A Real Options Approach with Evidence from US Gubernatorial Elections.” Journal of Business Venturing (forthcoming). [RESEARCH BRIEF]
Lucas, David S., Cristiano Bellavitis, and U. David Park. “A Cloud’s Silver Lining? The Impact of Policy Interventions on New and Maturing Technology Ventures’ Online Recruitment.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 17, no. 2 (2023): 445–484. [EIX Practitioner Summary].
Lucas, David S. and U. David Park. “The Nature and Origins of Social Venture Mission: An Exploratory Study of Political Ideology and Moral Foundations.” Journal of Business Venturing, 38, no. 2 (2023): 106271. [RESEARCH BRIEF]
Lucas, David S., Caleb S. Fuller, and Mark D. Packard. “Made to be broken? A theory of regulatory governance and rule-breaking entrepreneurial action.” Journal of Business Venturing, 37, no. 6 (2022): 106250. [RESEARCH BRIEF] [ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT] [Lazaridis Award for Best Paper of the Year in JBV 2022!]
Lucas, David S., Matthew G. Grimes, and Joel Gehman. “Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification.” Academy of Management Journal, 65, no. 3 (2022): 958–987. See also our online Supplement. [RESEARCH BRIEF] [AMJ PODCAST]
Boudreaux, Christopher J., Daniel J. Bennett, David S. Lucas, and Boris Nikolaev. “Taking Mental Models Seriously: Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and the Mediating Role of Socio-Cognitive Traits.” Small Business Economics, (2022).
Boudreaux, Christopher J., Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, and David S. Lucas. “Entrepreneurial Accessibility, Eudaimonic Well-Being, and Inequality.” Small Business Economics, 59, no. 3 (2022): 1061–1079. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00569-3
Lucas, David S., and Christopher J. Boudreaux. “National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective.” Research Policy, 49, no. 4 (2020): 103952. Also Best Paper Award on the Topic of Public Policy, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2019. [RESEARCH BRIEF]
Lucas, David S. “The Political Economy of the Collaborative Innovation Bloc.” The Review of Austrian Economics, 32, no. 4 (2019): 331-338.
Lucas, David S., Caleb S. Fuller, Ennio E. Piano, and Christopher J. Coyne. “Visions of Entrepreneurship Policy.” Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy, 7, no. 4 (2018): 336–356.
Lucas, David S. “Evidence-Based Policy as Public Entrepreneurship.” Public Management Review, 20, no. 11 (2018): 1602–1622. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2017.1412115
Lucas, David S., Caleb S. Fuller, and Ennio E. Piano. “Rooking the State.” International Review of Law and Economics, 55, September (2018), 12–20.
Corinth, Kevin and David S. Lucas. “When Warm and Cold Don't Mix: The Implications of Climate for the Determinants of Homelessness.” Journal of Housing Economics, 41 (2018), 45–56.
Lucas, David S. and Caleb S. Fuller. “Bounties, Grants, and Market-Making Entrepreneurship.” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 22, no. 4 (2018): 507–528.
Lucas, David S. “The Impact of Federal Homelessness Funding on Homelessness.” Southern Economic Journal, 84, no. 2 (2017): 548–576. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12231
Lucas, David S. and Caleb S. Fuller. 2017. “Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive—Relative to What?” Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 7 (June): 45–49.
Lucas, David S. “Federal Homelessness Policy: A Robust Political Economy Approach.” Review of Austrian Economics, 30, no. 2 (2017): 277–303.
Fuller, Caleb S. and David S. Lucas. “Pricing Political Rallies.” Economic Affairs, 37, no. 2 (2017): 271–278.
Coyne, Christopher J. and David S. Lucas. “Economists Have No Defense: A Critical Review of National Defense in Economics Textbooks,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 31, no. 4 (2016): 65–85. Best Educational Note, Association for Private Enterprise. [Picture]
Book Chapters
Lucas, David S. and Christopher Boudreaux. “When ‘What Works’ Does Not Work: The United States’ Mission to End Homelessness.” In Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy, Eds. Henrekson, Magnus, Christian Sandström, and Mikael Stenkula, (2024): 145–168. [Open Access!]
Lucas, David S. “Austrian Economics and Mainstream Entrepreneurship: Retrospect and Prospect.” In A Research Agenda for Austrian Economics, Eds. Horwitz, Stephen and Louis Rouanet (2023): pp. 45–68.
Lucas, David S. “Non-market Competition as a Discovery Procedure.” In Entrepreneurship and the Market Process, Eds. John, Arielle and Diana Thomas, (2019): pp. 97–119.
Awards
Dean’s Research Citation, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2022.
People’s Choice Award: “Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing Certification” (with Matthew Grimes and Joel Gehman), B Academics Roundtable, 2021.
Best Paper Award on the topic of Public Policy: “Regulation, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurial Job Creation: A Multilevel Governance Approach” (with Christopher J. Boudreaux), Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2019.
Top 20 Downloaded Article in 2017–2018: “The Impact of Federal Homelessness Funding on Homelessness,” Southern Economic Journal, 2019.
Israel M. Kirzner Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Austrian Economics, George Mason University Department of Economics, 2018.
William P. Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies in Economics, George Mason University Department of Economics, 2018.
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grant: Eli Ginzberg Award for most outstanding project in Health and Welfare, particularly in urban settings, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, 2017.
Best Educational Note: “Economists Have No Defense: A Critical Review of National Defense in Economics Textbooks” (with Christopher J. Coyne), Association of Private Enterprise Education, 2017.
Kathryn Brooks Award, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University, 2017.