research

Books

  1. Hayek: A Very Short Introduction (with Peter J. Boettke). Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract and in progress).

Journal Articles

  1. "Complex Order and Distributive Justice: Rawlsekians Reconsidered." Cosmos + Taxis, Forthcoming

  2. "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.

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

  4. "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

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

  6. "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. "An Economic Theory of Personality Cults": Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Institutional Economics

  2. "Democracy and Diseases: Political Exhcange and COVID-19" (With John T. Kroencke). Under Review, Constitutional Political Economy

Book Chapters

  1. "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.

  2. "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. "State Antiquity and Economic Progress: Cause or Consequence?" (with Claudia Williamson Kramer).

  2. "Repairing the Moral Order: Public Choice and the Past."

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

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

Popular Writing

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