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Research

Current Work

“The Distributional Effects of Monetary Expansion” (revisions requested from Kyklos)

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“Financial Sector Profits, Labor Income, and the Divergence of Consumer and Producer Prices” (under review)

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“When Stabilization Leads to Stagnation: Fiscal and Monetary Policy and their Relationship to Volatility and Growth” (under review)

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“Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of a Common Law for Economic Growth”​

Books

How Trade with China Threatens Western Institutions: The Economic Roots of a Political Crisis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-74708-4    

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Reviewed for The Independent Review by John Pelson, author of Wireless Wars.

Academic Articles

Research Diversity, Disruptive Science, and Scientific ConsensusThe Independent Review 29(1):151-168

(Summer 2024)

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Artificial Intelligence and Economic Planning” (with Mario Harper) AI & Society 39:987-1007 (June 2024)

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The Dynamics of Dominance and CompromiseDECISION 51(1):69-84 (March 2024)

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Estimating the Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage through Variation in Compliance: Evidence from Five US States” (with Michael Gmeiner) Journal of Government and Economics 12:100096 (Winter 2023)

 

The Fiscal Transmission Mechanism of Inflation(with Sven Larson) American Business Review 26(1):180-202 (May 2023)

 

The Chemistry of the MacroeconomyJournal of Business Cycle Research 18(3):289-313 (November 2022)

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Regulation Enforcement” (with Michael Gmeiner) Journal of Labor Research 43(2):163-202 (June 2022)

 

Encouraging Domestic Innovation by Protecting Foreign IP” (with Michael Gmeiner) International Review of Law and Economics 67 10600 (September 2021)

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Amimetic Assets and Persistent Profits under CompetitionReview of Austrian Economics 34(2):243–277 (June 2021)

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Central Place Theory and Tax Revenue from TourismJournal of Public Finance and Public Choice 36(1):87–111 (April 2021)

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International Free Riding on InstitutionsEconomic Affairs 41(1):123–140 (February 2021)

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Regulatory Capture in the U.S. Petroleum Refining Industry Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 46(4):459–498 (December 2019)

 

Innovation, Theft, and Market StructureAtlantic Economic Journal 47(4):243–260 (September 2019)

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Term Limits and State Budgets” (with Randall Holcombe), Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 34(1):21–36 (April 2019)

 

Interest Group Support for Non-Group Issues” (with Randall Holcombe), Constitutional Political Economy 29(3):303–316 (September 2018)

Contributions to Edited Volumes

“The International Dimension of America's Opioid Epidemic” in Eric See and Sarah See, eds., Opioids 360, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming

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Free Riding on the Surplus of Trade: China, the WTO, and Western Acquiescence in Norbert Gaillard, Fumihito Gotoh, and Rick Michalek, eds., The Future of Multilateralism and Globalization in the Age of the U.S.–China Rivalry, pp. 69-88 London: Routledge, 2023

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Income Tax Evasion Prior to Withholding (with Dr. Randall Holcombe) in Joshua Hall and Bryan Khoo, eds., Essays on Government Growth: Political Institutions, Evolving Markets, and Technology, pp. 75-95 London: Springer, 2020, part of the Studies in Public Choice series

Book Reviews

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Reviewed for The Independent Review 27(4) (Spring 2023)

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