2024

Mission Creep at the Federal Reserve
Southern Economic Journal (with Louis Rouanet)

Rationally Revealing Religion: In Defense of Ekelund and Tollison on Method
Public Choice

What, to the Christian, Is Economic Efficiency?
Faith & Economics

The Need for a Price Theory Revival
The Journal of Private Enterprise (with Bryan Cutsinger)

2023

Lessons from Latin America Dollarization in the Twenty First Century
The Economists' Voice (with Nicolas Cachanosky and Emilio Ocampo)

Wealth and Commerce in Eastern Christian Thought
Journal of Markets & Morality (with Wilson Whitener)

2022

Monepiscopacy: A Rational Choice Account
Journal of Economics, Management and Religion (with Wilson Whitener)

Can Dollarization Constrain a Populist Leader? The Case of Rafael Correa in Ecuador
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Nicolas Cachanosky and Ignacio Savanti)

Evolution, Uncertainty, and the Asymptotic Efficiency of Policy
Public Choice (with Brian Albrecht and Joshua Hendrickson)

2021

The Federal Reserve's Response to the COVID-19 Contraction: An Initial Appraisal
Southern Economic Journal (with Bryan Cutsinger, Nicolas Cachanosky, Thomas Hogan, and William Luther)

The Fundamental Coase of Development: Property Rights Foundations of the Effective State
Journal of Institutional Economics (with Ennio Piano)

2020

Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Political Entrepreneurship
Advances in Austrian Economics: Philosophy, Politics, and Austrian Economics

Malignant Monetary Monocentricity
The Independent Review

Ideologies, Institutions, and Interests: Why Ideas Don't Compete on a Level Playing Field
The Independent Review (with Justin Callais)

Private Prerogative, Public Purpose: Public Entrepreneurship and Management in Frederick the Great's Anti-Machiavel
The Journal of Private Enterprise

State Capacity and Economic Development: Causal Mechanism or Correlative Filter?
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Vincent Geloso)

Options to the Realm: A Cost Neutral Proposal to Improve Political Incentives
Contemporary Economic Policy (with Joshua Hendrickson)

The Super-Alertness of Central Banks
The Review of Austrian Economics (with Nicolas Cachanosky)

2019

A Theory of Self-Governance: De Facto Constitutions as Filters
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice (with Justin Callais)

Expectations and NGDP Targeting: Supply-Side Problems with Demand-Side Policy
The Journal of Private Enterprise (with Thomas Hogan)

The Constitution of Economic Expertise: Social Science in the Public Square, Past and Present
Christian Libertarian Review

Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-Ended Social Order
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice (with Richard Wagner)

Polycentric Sovereignty: The Medieval Constitution, Governance Quality, and the Wealth of Nations
Social Science Quarterly (with Andrew Young)

Political Economists or Political Economists? The Role of Political Environments in the Formation of Fed Policy Under Burns, Greenspan, and Bernanke
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (with Daniel Smith)

Rawlsian Originalism
Jurisprudence (with Brian Kogelmann)

Settling the Final Frontier: The ORBIS Lease and the Possibilities of Proprietary Communities in Space
Journal of Air Law and Commerce

Adaptation and Central Banking
Public Choice (with William Luther)

Governing the Banking System: An Assessment of Resilience Based on Elinor Ostrom's Design Principles
Journal of Institutional Economics (with Vlad Tarko)

2018

A Theory of Self-Enforcing Monetary Constitutions with Reference to the Suffolk System, 1825-1858
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Andrew Young)

Sovereign Entrepreneurship
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

The Other Space Race: Some Law and Economics of Celestial Resource Appropriation
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law

Preventing Plunder: National Defense, Capital Taxation, and Economic Development
Journal of Macroeconomics (with Joshua Hendrickson and Brian Albrecht)

Institutional Resilience in Banking Systems
Libertas: Segunda Época

Money as Meta-Rule: Buchanan's Constitutional Economics as a Foundation for Monetary Stability
Public Choice (with Peter Boettke and Daniel Smith)

Would a Free Banking System Stabilize NGDP Growth?
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (with Andrew Young)

Emergent Politics and Constitutional Drift: The Fragility of Procedural Liberalism
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy (with Glenn Furton)

Medieval Representative Assemblies: Collective Action and Antecedents of Limited Government
Constitutional Political Economy (with Andrew Young)

Political Entrepreneurship, Emergent Dynamics, and Constitutional Politics
Review of Social Economy (with Richard Wagner)

Dead Ends and Living Currents: Distributism as a Progressive Research Program
Christian Libertarian Review (with Eugene Callahan)

Going Beyond Monetary Constitutions: The Congruence of Money and Finance
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (with Joshua Hendrickson)

2017

Bitcoin and the Bailout
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (with William Luther)

Ordering the Cosmos: Private Law and Celestial Property Rights
Journal of Air Law and Commerce

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Knowledge Problems in Monetary Policy
Contemporary Economic Policy (with Daniel Smith)

Constitutional Drift and Political Dysfunction: Underappreciated Maladies of the Political Commons
The Independent Review

Private Governance and the Pricing of Political Enterprises
Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis (with Glenn Furton)

Polycentric Banking and Macroeconomic Stability
Business and Politics (with Vlad Tarko)

Extended Shareholder Liability as a Means to Constrain Moral Hazard in Insured Banks
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (with Vipin Veetil and Lawrence H. White)

Money and the Rule of Law
The Review of Austrian Economics (with Glenn Furton)

Some Political Economy of Monetary Rules
The Independent Review

Strategic Offsetting Behavior in the NBA: The Case of the Mikan Rule
Journal of Sports Economics

Playing at Markets: A New Austrian Perspective on Macroeconomic Policy
The Review of Austrian Economics

The View from Vienna: Analysis of Renewed Interest in the Mises-Hayek Theory of the Business Cycle
The Review of Austrian Economics (with Nicolas Cachanosky)

2016

Money, Liquidity, and the Structure of Production
Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control (with Joshua Hendrickson)

Post-Cameralist Governance: Towards a Robust Political Economy of Bureaucracy
Economic Affairs

A Theory of Why the Ruthless Revolt
Economics and Politics (with Joshua Hendrickson)

The Personal and the Political: Implications of Constitutional Entrepreneurship
NYU Journal of Law and Liberty

The Optimal Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Advances in Austrian Economics: Studies in Austrian Macroeconomics (with William Luther)

Space Debris: A Law and Economics Analysis of the Orbital Commons
Stanford Technology Law Review

Political Property Rights and Governance Outcomes: A Theory of the Corporate Polity
The Journal of Private Enterprise

2015

Rights to the Realm: Reconsidering Western Political Development
American Political Science Review

Sovereignty as Exchange of Political Property Rights
Public Choice