research

Books

1. Hayek: A Very Short Introduction (with Peter J. Boettke). Oxford: Oxford University Press (first draft submitted).

Journal Articles

1. "Hayek the Hedgehog" (with Peter J. Boettke). History of Political Economy, forthcoming.

2. "Hayek and the Institutional Turn in Political Economy" (with Peter J. Boettke). Cosmos + Taxis, forthcoming

3. "State Antiquity and Economic Progress: Cause or Consequence?"  (with Claudia Williamson Kramer). Public Choice, vol. 203(1), 2025: 77 - 103. (Winner: 2025 Best Article Prize, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics)

4. "James M. Buchanan's Constrained Vision in Cost and Choice" (with Art Carden, Audrey Redford, and James Hanley). Journal of Private Enterprise 36, no. 3, (2021): 91-109.

5. "James M. Buchanan on "the Relatively Absolute Absolutes" and "Truth Judgments" in Politics" (with Peter J. Boettke). Public Choice, 2021

6. "Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?" (with Patrick A. McLaughlin, Oliver Sherouse, and Mark Febrizio). Journal of Financial Regulation, 7, no. 1 (2021): 149-174

7. "Regulating Quack Medicine" (with Peter T. Leeson and Tate J. Fegley). Public Choice, 182, no. 3 (2020): 273-286

8. "Democracy by Discussion, Not Debate: James Buchanan on Freedom of Inquiry as a Methodological, not Ideological, Necessity" (with Peter J. Boettke). ORDO: Jahrbuch fur die Ordnung von Wirtshaft und Gesellschaft 69, no. 1 (2019): 51-62

Journal Articles Under Review

1. "Democracy and Diseases: Political Exchange and COVID-19" (with John T. Kroencke). Under review, Constitutional Political Economy

Book Chapters

1. "Two Cheers for Localism: Hayek and Interstate Federalism" (with Peter J. Boettke and Samrudha Surana). Forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to Localism

2. "Friedrich Hayek" (with Peter T. Leeson). Forthcoming, the Elgar Encyclopedia of the History of Economic Thought 

3. "James M. Buchanan and the Public Choice Tradition" (with Art Carden, Audrey Redford, and James Hanley). Forthcoming in an edited volume published by Fundacion Libertad, Rosario, Argentina.

4. "Hayek and the Hayekians on the Political Order of a Free People" (with Peter J. Boettke). in "Hayek's Tensions", Tensions in Political Economy Series, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2020.

Book Reviews

1. Review of "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" by Frank Dikotter, The Independent Review, 2021

2. Review of  "Conspiracy Theories: a Primer" by Joseph E. Uscinski, The Independent Review, 2020

3. Review of "The Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity" by Stephen Davies, The Review of Austrian Economics, 2020

Working Papers

1. "Crisis and Anti-Leviathan: India's Liberalization Re-Examined" (with Samrudha Surana).

2. "An Economic Theory of Personality Cults": 

3. "Hayek's Contestible Liberalism"

4. "Between Kosmos and Construct: the Contractarian Vision of James M. Buchanan"

5. "Janissaries" (with John T. Kroencke).

Popular Writing

1. "Rules for Non-Radicals: James Buchanan and Geoffrey Brennan's The Reason of Rules." Econlib: the Library of Economics and Liberty, 2023. 

2. "Why So Many Predictions About Inflation Were Wrong" (with Patrick J. Horan). Discourse Magazine, 2022.