Research
Current Work
“Minimum Wage Compliance and Employment” with Michael Gmeiner
“Free Riding on the Surplus of Trade: China, the WTO, and Western Acquiescence” (forthcoming book chapter)
“Research Diversity, Disruptive Science, and Scientific
Consensus”
“The Dynamics of Dominance and Compromise”
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
Academic Articles
“The Fiscal Transmission Mechanism of Inflation”(with Sven Larson) American Business Review, forthcoming
“Artificial Intelligence and Economic Planning” (with Mario Harper) AI & Society, forthcoming
“The Chemistry of the Macroeconomy” Journal of Business Cycle Research 18(3):289-313 (November 2022)
“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)
“Central Place Theory and Tax Revenue from Tourism” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 36(1):87–111 (April 2021)
“Amimetic Assets and Persistent Profits under Competition” Review of Austrian Economics 34(2):243–277 (June 2021)
“International Free Riding on Institutions” Economic Affairs 41(1):123–140 (February 2021)
“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)
“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
“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, 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)
