Publications
“Crony Capitalism, Populism, and Democracy”
with Peter J. Boettke ·
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2026. [Journal] [SSRN]
“Ways of Seeing the World: Legibility in Alternative Institutional Settings”
with Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan Goodman
European Economic Review, 2025. [Journal] [SSRN]
“The Evolving Concept of Rationality in the Work of Ludwig von Mises”
with Erwin Dekker
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2026. [Journal] [SSRN]
“Populism, the Illusion of Participation, and the Hope of Self-Governance”
with Christopher J. Coyne
The Independent Review, 2025/26. [Journal]
“The Night the Line Was (Not) Crossed: The Use of Repugnance for Product Differentiation”
with Erwin Dekker
Markets & Society, 2024. [Journal]
Book Chapters
“Competing Visions of Cronyism within the Virginia School of Political Economy”
with Peter J. Boettke
The Cambridge Handbook of Political Capitalism. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Review Essays
“Am I a Good Puppet? A Review Essay of Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy”
The Review of Austrian Economics, 2024. [Journal]
“The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”
Public Choice, 2023.
Working Papers
“The Political Economy of Central Bank Digital Currencies and Monetary Policy”
with Francisco Nunes Pereira
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Institutional Economics. [SSRN]
“Politics as Conflict: A Neglected Branch within the Virginia School of Political Economy”
“State Capacity, State Capture, and Political Capitalism: The Case of the Military-Industrial Complex”
with Christopher J. Coyne
“In Search for Open Democracy: Don Lavoie and the Remaking of Twenty-First Century Liberalism”
with Mikayla Novak
Works in Progress
“When Anti-Establishment Rhetoric Goes Mainstream: Political Signaling and the Persistence of Institutional Distrust”
with Erwin Dekker
Public Writing
“The False Promise of Populism”
with Christopher J. Coyne
EconLib, 2025. [Article]