Journal Articles
“The Samaritan Bureaucracy in International Transfers,” Public Choice, forthcoming. (with A. Hall and Y. Alshamy)
“The Black Mouth Society and Governance on the Great Plains,” Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming. (with J. Lofthouse)
“The Political Economy of Military Base Redevelopment,” Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming. (with C. Reilly)
“Surveillance Capitalism & The Surveillance State: A Comparative Institutional Analysis,” Constitutional Political Economy, forthcoming. (with Y. Alshamy, A. Hall, and M. Owens)
“Polycentric Defense, Ukraine Style: Explaining Ukrainian Resilience Against Invasion,” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, forthcoming. (with Y. Alshamy, N. Goodman, and G. Wood)
“Murray Rothbard on War and Foreign Policy,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 28(4): 591-600. (with Y. Yatsyshina)
“A Historical Survey of Classical Liberals on War and Imperialism: Part 2. Non-British Classical Liberals,” History of Economic Ideas, 2024, 31(2): 15-85 . (with M. Owens)
“A Historical Survey of Classical Liberals on War and Imperialism: Part 1. British Classical Liberals,” History of Economic Ideas, 2023, 31(1): 87-168. (with M. Owens)
“A Conflict of Peace Visions: The Peacemonger Mentality vs. the Warmonger Mentality,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2023, 38(3): 1-24. (with A. Crockett)
“Peace as an Educational Process: An Economic Perspective,” Educatio Catholica, 2023, 9(1-2): 57-72. (with V. Storr)
“Kenneth Boulding: Knowledge, Conflict, and Power,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 28(2): 237-246. (with Y. Alshamy)
“Entrepreneurial Pathways to Peacemaking,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2023, 29(2): 97-127. (with M. Romero and V. Storr)
“The Market Process as Nonviolent Action,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 28(1): 11-28. (with Y. Alshamy, J. Ammons, and N. Goodman)
“New Thinking in Austrian Economics,” Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming. (with P. Boettke)
“Noxious Government Markets: Evidence From the International Arms Trade” Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization, forthcoming. (with Y. Alshamy and N. Goodman)
“The Folly of Empire and the Science of Peace,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2023, 38(2): 1-16.
“A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Analysis of the Limits of State Action,” Journal of European Public Policy, 2022, 29(12): 1970-1981. (with P. Boettke)
“The Market as a Space for Building a Peaceful Society,” Peace Review, 2022, 34(3): 333-342. (with M. Romero and V. Storr)
“The Economic Logic Behind the Ultimate Resource,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2022, 35(3): 303-314. (with P. Boettke)
“Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses in Post-World War II America,” Cosmos+Taxis, 2022, 10(9+10): 113-126. (with A. Hall)
“U.S. Border Militarization and Foreign Policy: A Symbiotic Relationship,” The Economics of Peace & Security Journal, 2022, 17(1): 5-16. (with N. Goodman)
“The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention: Evidence from the Afghanistan Papers,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2021, 27(3): 285-310. (with K. Lambert and N. Goodman)
“Police State, U.S.A.,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 26(2): 189-204. (with Y. Yatsyshina)
“Perverse Consequences of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems,” Peace Review, 2021, 33(2): 190-198. (with Y. Alshamy)
“Infectious Diseases and Government Growth,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 25(4): 537-550. (with N. Goodman and A. Devereaux)
“The Political Economy of State Responses to Infectious Disease,” Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87(4): 1119-1137. (with T. Duncan and A. Hall)
“Pandemic Police States,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2020, 26(3): 1-8. (with Y. Yatsyshina)
“The Political Economy of the Virtual Wall,” Peace Review, 2020, 32(2): 172-180. (with N. Goodman)
“Polycentric Defense,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 25(2): 279-292. (with N. Goodman)
“Sounding the Alarm: The Political Economy of Whistleblowing in the U.S. Security State,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2019, 25(1): 1-11. (with A. Hall and N. Goodman)
“Cronyism: Necessary for the Minimal, Protective State,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 23(3): 399-410. (with A. Hall)
“State-Provided Defense as Non-comprehensive Planning,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2019, 34(1): 75-85. (with A. Hall)
“Visions of Entrepreneurship Policy,” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2018, 7(4): 336-356 . (with D. Lucas, C. Fuller, and E. Piano)
“War and Human Rights Abuses in the United States,” Peace Review, 2018, 30(2): 184-191. (with A. Hall)
“The Drone Paradox: Fighting Terrorism with Mechanized Terror,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 23(1): 51-67. (with A. Hall)
“Gene Sharp: The ‘Clausewitz of Nonviolent Warfare’,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 23(1): 149-156. (with J. Ammons)
“Overlooked Costs of War-Related Public Research,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 22(3): 429-434. (with B. Bills)
“The History of a Tradition: Austrian Economics from 1871 to 2016,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 2016, 34A: 199-243. (with P. Boettke and P. Newman)
“Economists Have No Defense: A Critical Review of National Defense in Economics Textbooks,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2016, 31(4): 65-83. (with D. Lucas)
“Empire State of Mind: The Illiberal Foundations of Liberal Hegemony,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 21(2): 237-250. (with A. Hall)
“Unproductive Entrepreneurship in U.S. Military Contracting,” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2016, 5(2): 221-239. (with C. Michaluk and R. Reese)
“Foreign Intervention, Police Militarization, and the Impact on Minority Groups,” Peace Review, 2016, 28: 165-170. (with A. Hall)
“Market-Provided National Defense: Reply to Newhard,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2016, 31(2): 83-86. (with T. Duncan and P. Leeson)
“The War in Drugs in Afghanistan: Another Failed Experiment with Interdiction,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 21(1): 95-119. (with A. Hall and S. Burns)
“Lobotomizing the Defense Brain,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2015, 28(4): 371-396.
“The Revolving Door and the Entrenchment of the Permanent War Economy,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2015, 21(3): 391-413. (with T. Duncan)
“Foreign Aid and the Culture of Contracting,” Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, 41: 102-125. (with C. Williamson)
“The Political Economy of State-Provided Targeted Benefits,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2015, 28(3): 337-356. (with L. Moberg)
“Perfecting Tyranny: Foreign Intervention as Experimentation in State Control,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 19(2): 165-189. (with A. Hall)
“A Hidden Cost of War: The Impact of Mobilizing Reserve Troops on Emergency Response Times,” Public Choice, 2014, 161(3): 289-303. (with A. Hall, P. McLaughlin, and A. Zerkle)
“A Note on the Market Provision of National Defense,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2014, 27(4): 359-385. (with T. Duncan and P. Leeson)
“The Empire Strikes Back: Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and the Robust Political Economy of Empire,” The Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming (with A. Hall)
“The Case Against a U.S.-arms Monopoly,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 2014, 42(2): 181-190. (with A. Hall)
“The Political Economy of Drones,” Defence and Peace Economics, 2014, 25(5): 445-460. (with A. Hall)
“Earw(h)ig: I Can’t Hear You Because Your Ideas are Old,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(3): 531-544. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“The Identity Economics of Female Genital Mutilation,” Journal of Developing Areas, 2014, 48(2): 137-152. (with R. Coyne)
“Further Reflections on Humanitarian Action,” Studies in Emergent Order, 2014, Volume 7: 170-183.
“Symposium on James M. Buchanan and Classical Liberalism: Introduction,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 18(3): 325-330.
“Institutional Bottlenecks: What Can be Done?,” Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5: 41-60. (with A. Hall)
“The Political Economy of Human Rights Scandals,” Homo Oeconomicus, 2013, 30(4): 101-126. (with R. Coyne)
“The Origins of the Permanent War Economy,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 18(2): 219-240. (with T. Duncan)
“The Overlooked Costs of the Permanent War Economy: A Market Process Approach,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2013, 26(4): 413-431. (with T. Duncan)
“The Political Economy of the Reconstruction Era's Race Riots,” Public Choice, 2013 157(1): 57-71. (with A. Carden)
“Comparative Historical Political Economy,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 2013, 9(3): 285-301. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“Anarchy, Philanthropy, and the Provision of Public Goods in a Free Society,” Spanda Journal, 2013, 4(1): 25-36, (with A. Hall)
“Keep Off the Grass: The Economics of Prohibition and U.S. Drug Policy,” Oregon Law Review, 2013, 91(4): 1069-1096, (with P. Boettke and A. Hall)
“The Militarization of U.S. Domestic Policing,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 17(4): 485-504, (with A. Hall)
“Sassywood,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40(4): 608-620. (with P. Leeson)
“Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 2012, 33(5-6): 441-451, (with P. Leeson)
“Lessons from The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2012, 71(1): 215-228. (with J. Lemke)
“The Art of Seeing Like a State: State Building in Afghanistan, the Congo, and Beyond,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2012, 25(1): 35-52. (with A. Pellillo)
“Trade Openness and Cultural Creative Destruction,” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2012, 1(1). (with C. Williamson)
“Quasimarket Failure,” Public Choice, 2011, 149(1-2): 209-224. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“An Austrian Inquiry Into the Wealth of Nations,” Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 2011, 10(2): 54-69. (with P. Leeson)
“Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures,” Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54(1): 111-134 (with R. Sobel)
“Economic Reconstruction Amidst Conflict: Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq,” Defence and Peace Economics, 2011, 22(6): 627-643. (with A. Pellillo)
“Constitutions and Crisis,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80(2): 351-357.
“Polycentricity in Disaster Relief,” Studies in Emergent Orders, 2011, 3: 45-57. (with J. Lemke)
“War and Liberty: Wisdom From Leonard E. Read and F. A. “Baldy” Harper,” Economic Affairs, 2011, 31(3): 51-53 (with N. Snow)
“The Political Economy of the Creeping Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2011, 17(1).
“The Debt-Inflation Cycle and the Global Financial Crisis,” Global Policy, 2011, 2(2): 184-189 (with P. Boettke)
“Rituals: An Economic Interpretation,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78: 74-84. (with R. Mathers)
“The Non-Productive Entrepreneurial Process,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2010, 23(4): 333-346. (with R. Sobel and J. Dove)
“Making Economics a Transformative Experience,” The Journal of Private Enterprise, 2010, 26(1): 57-65..
“Entrepreneurship and the Taste for Discrimination,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2010, 20(4): 609-627. (with J. Isaacs and J. Schwartz)
“Asset Values and the Sustainability of Peace Prospects,” The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2010, 50(2): 146-156. (with G. Dempster and J. Isaacs)
“Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, 'Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?',” Journal of Sports Economics, 2010, 11(2): 227-231. (with J. Isaacs and J. Schwartz)
“The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2010, 14: 227-252. (with R. Mathers)
“Takings,” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2010, 8(2): 327-338. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“The Problem of Credible Commitment in Reconstruction,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 2009, 5(1): 1-23. (with P. Boettke)
“The Importance of Expectations in Economic Development,” Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2009, 1: 63-82.
“Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement,” Kyklos, 2009, 62(1): 1-14. (with P. Leeson)
“The Politics and Economics of Global Interventionism,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2009, 22(2): 181-191.
“With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 14(1): 26-44. (with M. Ryan)
“Best Case, Worst Case and the Golden Mean in Political Economy: An Introduction to a symposium on Tim Besley’s Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2009, 22(2): 123-125. (with P. Boettke)
“Government Intervention and the Structure of Social Capital,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2008, 21(2/3): 209-218. (with A. Carilli and P. Leeson)
“The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek’s Political Economy,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2008, 11: 79-98. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson).
“The Politics of Bureaucracy and the Failure of Post-War Reconstruction,” Public Choice, 2008, 135: 11-22.
“How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making,” Journal of Economic Issues, 2008, XXLII (3): 727-743. (with P. Leeson)
“Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, 67(2): 331-358. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2007, 17(2-3): 49-65. (with R. Sobel and P. Leeson)
“The Reformers’ Dilemma: Media, Policy Ownership and Reform,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 23: 237-250. (with P. Leeson)
“Saving Government Failure Theory from Itself: Recasting Political Economy from an Austrian Perspective,” Constitutional Political Economy, 2007, 18(2): 127-143. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“Put Me in Coach, I'm Ready to Play,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2007, 20(4): 237-246. (with J. Isaacs, J. Schwartz and A. Carilli)
“Nineteen Public Bads of Empire, Nation Building, and the Like,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 12(2): 129-132. (with S. Davies)
“Deconstructing Reconstruction: The Overlooked Challenges of Military Occupation,” The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2007, 2(2): 76-82.
“Reconstruction and Reconciliation: What's Economics Got to Do With It?” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 2007, Winter/Spring: 69-84.
“Empire: Public Goods and Bads,” Econ Journal Watch, 2007, 4(1): 3-45. (with S. Davies)
“The Political Economy of Forgiveness,” Society, 2007, 44(2): 53-59. (with P. Boettke)
“Liberalism in the Post-9/11 World,” Indian Journal of Economics & Business, 2007, Special Issue, 35-53. (with P. Boettke)
“Culture, Common Knowledge and Post-Conflict Reconstruction,” Journal of Intercultural Communication, 2007, 13.
“Where Economics And Philosophy Meet,” Economic Journal, 2006, 116(512): F306-F325. (with P. Boettke, J. Davis, F. Guala, A. Marciano, J. Runde and M. Schabas)
“Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Nirvana Fallacy,” Foreign Policy Analysis, 2006, 2: 343-361.
“Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Insights from Tocqueville,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, 2006, 31(2): 143-162.
“Converting Social Conflict: Focal Points and the Evolution of Social Cooperation,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19(2/3): 137-147. (with P. Leeson and P. Boettke)
“Does the Market Self-Correct? Asymmetrical Adjustment and the Structure of Economic Error,” Review of Political Economy, 2006, 18(1): 79-90. (with P. Leeson and P. Boettke)
“The Role of the Economist in Economic Development,” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19(2): 47-68. (with P. Boettke)
“High Priests and Lowly Philosophers: The Battle for the Soul of Economics,” Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2006, 56(3): 551-568. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
Translated and reprinted as "Sacerdotes Supremos Y Filosofos Humildes: LaBatalla Por El Alma De La Economia," in Revista de Economía y Derecho (Journal of Law and Economics), N°10, OTOÑO 2006.
“Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005, 57: 145-158. (with P. Boettke)
“Who’s to Protect Cyberspace?” Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 2005, 1(2): 473-495. (with P. Leeson)
“The Economics of Computer Hacking,” Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 2005, 1(2): 511-532. (with P. Leeson)
“Manipulating the Media,” Institutions and Economic Development, 2005, 1-2: 67-92. (with P. Leeson)
“Institutions, Immigration and Identity,” NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2005 1(3): 131-154. (with P. Boettke)
“The New Comparative Political Economy,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18(3/4): 281-304. (with P. Boettke, P. Leeson, and F. Sautet).
“The Institutional Prerequisites for Post-Conflict Reconstruction,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18(3/4): 325-342.
“Postwar Reconstruction: Some Insights from Public Choice and Institutional Economics,” Constitutional Political Economy, 2005, 16: 31-48. (with T. Cowen)
“The Many Faces of the Market,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2004, 14(2): 71-86. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries,” Cato Journal, 2004, 24(3): 235-249. (With P. Leeson)
“Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development,” Kyklos, 2004, 57: 21-44. (with P. Leeson)
“The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and Practice,” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2004, 7(2): 71-89. (with P. Boettke)
“Knowledge, Economics and Coordination: Understanding Hayek’s Legal Theory," NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2004, 1: 209-224. (with S. Beaulier and P. Boettke)
“Entrepreneurship and Development: Cause or Consequence?” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2003, 6: 67-88. (with P. Boettke)
“Do Pessimistic Assumptions About Human Behavior Justify Government?” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 2003, 17 no. 4: 1-23. (with B. Powell)
“Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics,” Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought, June 2003, 43: 1-10. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)
“Order in the Jungle: Social Interaction without the State,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Spring 2003, 7(4): 557 - 566.
Reprinted in Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State, and Public Choice,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, pp. 49-59.