Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

    Bridging the Trust Gap: How Parent-Connected Networks Extend Cooperation Beyond the Family
    Forthcoming (2027). Cosmos + Taxis


    House Rules
    Forthcoming. Journal of Private Enterprise


    The Government–Robber Comparison: A Long-Standing Tradition Beyond Avowed Libertarianism
    2025. Economic Affairs 46(1): 41–58


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Working Papers

    Information Without Accountability: Externalities, Expressive Giving, and the Limits of Nonprofit Governance
    Job Market Paper


    Beyond Voluntary Failure
    with Christopher J. Coyne
    [Dissertation Chapter 2]


    Does Government-Nonprofit Contracting Instantiate Democratic Priority-Setting?
    with Thomas J. Hughes


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Works in Progress

    Embedded, Not Entrapped: What Declining Membership Cannot Show
    with Robert Vincent Biolsi, Jr.


    Funder Dependence and Political Allocation: A Public Choice Theory of Government-Nonprofit Contracting


    Discovering the Boundaries of Nonprofit Organization: Marketization, Contract Failure, and Institutional Discovery


    Answering the Wrong Question: Salamon, Nisbet, and the Conservative Critique of Government-Nonprofit Partnership


    The Hansmann Inversion: Nonprofit Trust Signals and The Persistence of Lemons in Animal Sheltering


    Toward a Classical Liberal Urban Governance
    with Eugenio Gerardo Garza Garza


    Contraband in Nuevo León, 1848–1890
    with Eugenio Gerardo Garza Garza and Robert Biolsi


    An Institutionally Antiseptic Economics of Nonprofits


    From Highwayman to Books of Casuistry


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Book Chapters

    Robber and the Government: Differences and One Great Big Likeness
    Chapter in Just Sentiments: 22 More Smithian Essays, edited by Daniel B. Klein and Erik W. Matson. CL Press, pp. 249–259.


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