Research
Working Papers
"Assuring Consumers of Authenticity, Safety, & Quality: Early American Whiskey Markets" (with Macy
Scheck).**
"Comrades Bowling Alone: The Impact of State Ownership of the Economy on Civil Society" (with Gabriel
Benzecry and Nicholas A. Reinarts).**
"The Academy: A Critical Analysis" (with Gabriel Benzecry).
"The Development of Walter Lippmann's Political Economy," (with Gabriel Benzecry).
"The Impact of the Bowl Championship Series on Competitive Balance in Major College Football," (with Chris
Barker).**
"The Road to Censorship: Socialism's Chilling Effect on Academic Freedom" (with Gabriel Benzecry and
Nicholas A. Reinarts).**
"Examining the Public Health Rationale for Barber Licensure During the Progressive Era" (with Sean Patrick
Alvarez and Macy Scheck).**
"Soviet Sports and the Feasibility of Central Planning” (with Daniel Sutter).
Refereed Journal Articles
35. "The Road to Serfdom and the Definitions of Socialism, Planning, and the Welfare State, 1930-1950," (with Gabriel Benzecry and Nicholas Jensen).
History of Political Economy, forthcoming.**
34. "The Lange-Lerner Hypothesis: Analyzing the Impact of Banking Sector Monopolization on Democracy" (with Gabriel Benzecry and Nicholas A. Reinarts).
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, forthcoming.**
33. "The Socialists' Hypotheses and The Road to Serfdom" (with Gabriel Benzecry and Nicholas Jensen).
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming.**
32. "What LawMicro Has to Teach LawMacro: An Exploration of the Rule of Law and Monetary Policy" (with Peter J. Boettke and Alexander W. Salter).
Journal of Contextual Economics - Schmollers Jahrbuch (Special Issue), forthcoming.
(with Nicholas Reinarts and Gabriel Benzecry).
Public Choice, forthcoming.**
30. "Examining the Public Interest Rationale for Regulating Whiskey with the Pure Food and Drugs Act" (with Macy Scheck).
Public Choice, forthcoming.**
29. "Not-So-Spontaneous Socialization Outcomes of Spontaneous Family Structures" (with Gabriel F.Benzecry).
Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization, forthcoming.**
28. "Austrian Economics as a Relevant Research Program."
The Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
27. "The Wisdom of Classical Political Economy in Economics: Incorporated or Lost?" (with Gabriel F. Benzecry).
The Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
Public Choice 188(3-4) 2021: 333-359.
Constitutional Political Economy 31(2) 20220: 205-226.
The Review of Austrian Economics 35(1) 2022: 15-37.
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 25(1) 2020.**
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 71(1) 2019: 1-13.
21. "Central Banking without Romance," (with Thomas L. Hogan and Robin P. K. Aguiar-Hicks).
European Journal of Comparative Economics, 15(2) 2018: 293-314.**
Public Choice, 176(3-4) 2018: 529-555.
19. "The Undertaker's Cut: Challenging the Rational Basis for Casket Licensing," (with Noah Trudeau).
Journal of Private Enterprise, Summer 2019.**
Economics of Governance 19(1) 2018: 51-73.
Southern Business and Economics Journal 40(1) 2018: 16-32.*
16. Occupational Licensing in Alabama."
Labour & Industry 27(2) 2017: 77-94.
The Review of Austrian Economics 30(4) 2017: 469-492.
14. "The Demoralizing Trap of Keynesianism" (with Sean Patrick Alvarez).
Journal of Markets & Morality (Special Issue) 20(1) 2017: 55-68.*
Contemporary Economic Policy 35(3) 2017: 505-517.
The Review of Austrian Economics 29(4) 2016: 351-370.
11. “Education in a Robust Political Economy” (with Scott A. Beaulier and Benjamin G. Tegethoff).
School System Reform Journal 2016: 1-34.*
10. "An Episodic History of Federal Reserve Independence" (with Peter J. Boettke).
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 20(1) 2015.
9. "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: A Framework for the Intimate and Extended Orders.”
Studies in Emergent Order (Invited Symposium) 7 2014: 239-257.
8. "Heterogeneity and Exchange: Safe-Conducts in Medieval Spain."
The Review of Austrian Economics 27(2) 2014: 183-197.
7. "Federal Reserve Independence: A Centennial Review" (with Peter J. Boettke).
The Journal of Prices & Markets 1(1) 2013: 31-48.
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 18(2) 2013: 165-188.
5. "Technology and the Architecture of Emergent Orders" (with Scott A. Beaulier and Daniel Sutter).
Studies in Emergent Order 5 2012: 157-176.
American Journal of Economics and Sociology (Special Issue) 71(5) 2012: 1219-1249.
3. "Hooligans" (with Peter T. Leeson and Nicholas A. Snow).
Revue d'Économie Politique (Special Issue) 122(2) 2012: 213-231.
2. "Norms in Sports Contests: The Tour de France" (with Alexander Fink).
Journal of Sport Management 26(1) 2012: 43-52.
Long Term View 7(1) 2008: 14-22.
Journal Introductions
2. “Harold A. Black Academic Conference: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” (with Ramon P. DeGennaro).
Public Choice 197 2023: 317-324.
1. “James M. Buchanan Centennial Birthday Academic Conference: An Introduction to the Special Issue."
Public Choice 183(3-4) 2020: 223-226.
Academic Book Chapters
6. "The Ingenious Mind: Private and Public Entrepreneurship in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance" (with Gabriel Benzecry and Alexander Fink).
Oxford Handbook of Private Enterprise (Edward P. Stringham, Ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.**
5. "On Your Mark, Get Set, Develop!" (with Scott A. Beaulier).
4. “The Theory of Social Cooperation Historically Contemplated” (with Peter J. Boettke).
Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation (Robert F. Garnett Jr., Paul Lewis, and Lenore T. Ealy, Eds.). London and
New York: Routledge, 2015.
3. “The Impact of Nobel Prize Winners: Mainline vs. Mainstream” (with Peter J. Boettke and Alexander Fink).
Different but Equal: Documenting the Contribution of Dissident Scholars (Daniel Sutter, Ed.). United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Reprint of “The Impact of Nobel Prize Winners: Mainline vs. Mainstream,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 71(5) 2012: 1219-1249.
2. “Been There Done That: The Political Economy of Déjà Vu, 1950 and 2010” (with Peter J. Boettke and Nicholas A. Snow).
The Global Financial Crisis: What Have We Learnt (Steven Kates, Ed.). Gloucestershire, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
Polish Translation: “Już tu Byłem, Już to Robiłem: Ekonomia Polityczna Spod Znaku Déjà Vu” (with Peter J. Boettke and Nicholas A. Snow).
Odkrywając Wolność: Przeciw Zniewoleniu Umysłów (Leszek Balcerowicz, Ed.).Warsawa, Polska: Zysk I S-Ka Wydawnictwo, 2012.
1. “Private Solutions to Public Disasters: Self-Reliance and Social Resilience” (with Peter J. Boettke).
The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters (William Kern, Ed.). Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2010.
Academic Book Reviews
8. Robert L. Hetzel’s The Federal Reserve: A New History."
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
7. Karen Petrou's Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America."
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy.
6. "Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner, Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy."
The Review of Austrian Economics.
5. "Sebastian Mallaby's The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan."
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy.
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 21(4): 621-623.
3. "Jocelyn Pixley and G. C. Harcourt, Financial Crisis and the Nature of Capitalist Money.
The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2016 38(4): 518-523.
1. "Mark Pennington, Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy."
Journal of Value Inquiry, 2012 46(4): 519-522.
Policy Papers and Book Chapters
Political Economy Research Institute and the Beacon Center of Tennessee, 2020.
8. "Advancing Certificate-of-Need Reform in Tennessee," (with Macy Scheck).
Political Economy Research Institute, 2021.
Alabama Policy Institute, 2018.
6."Occupational Licensing in Mississippi."
University Institute for Market Studies, 2018: 119-131.
5. "Alabama at the Crossroads: An Economic Guide to a Fiscally Sustainable Future" (with John A. Dove).
Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2016.
4. “School Service Privatization in Alabama" (with Robin P. K. Aguiar-Hicks).
for Political Economy, 2015.**
3. "Reforming Occupational Licensing in Alabama."
Center for Political Economy, 2015.
1. “Survey 2007: More Growth in School Support Service Privatization” (with Michael LaFaive).
Policy Brief. Midland, MI: Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2007.
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** Graduate coauthor