Research
Current Work
“The Distributional Effects of Monetary Expansion” (under review)
“Financial Sector Profits, Labor Income, and the Divergence of Consumer and Producer Prices” (under review)
“When Stabilization Leads to Stagnation: Fiscal and Monetary Policy and their Relationship to Volatility and Growth” (under review)
“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
Reviewed for The Independent Review by John Pelson, author of Wireless Wars.
Academic Articles
“Research Diversity, Disruptive Science, and Scientific Consensus” The Independent Review 29(1):151-168
(Summer 2024)
“Artificial Intelligence and Economic Planning” (with Mario Harper) AI & Society 39:987-1007 (June 2024)
“The Dynamics of Dominance and Compromise” DECISION 51(1):69-84 (March 2024)
“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)
“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)
“Amimetic Assets and Persistent Profits under Competition” Review of Austrian Economics 34(2):243–277 (June 2021)
“Central Place Theory and Tax Revenue from Tourism” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 36(1):87–111 (April 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
“The International Dimension of America's Opioid Epidemic” in Eric See and Sarah See, eds., Opioids 360, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming
“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
“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)
