Research
Current Work
“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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“Does the U.S. Federal Budget Deficit Respond More to Changes in Revenues, Expenses, or Monetary Policy? A Time-Varying State-Space Analysis”​
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The Anglo-American Economic Tradition: A Foundation for Prosperity, Freedom, and Stability (book under contract)
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
“The Distributional Effects of Expansionary Monetary Policy” Kyklos 78(2):587-606
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“Research Diversity, Disruptive Science, and Scientific Consensus” The 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 Compromise” DECISION 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 Macroeconomy” Journal 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 Competition” Review of Austrian Economics 34(2):243–277 (June 2021)
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“Central Place Theory and Tax Revenue from Tourism” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 36(1):87–111 (April 2021)
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“International Free Riding on Institutions” Economic 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 Structure” Atlantic 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 Sarah See and Eric See, eds., Opioids 360: A Multidisciplinary Examination of an American Tragedy, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2025
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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)
