Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

    Learning to Trust: Why Family-Embedded Experiences Matter for Social Cooperation
    Conditionally Accepted. Cosmos + Taxis

    House Rules
    Forthcoming. Journal of Private Enterprise

    The Government–Robber Comparison: A Long-Standing Tradition Beyond Avowed Libertarianism
    2025. Economic Affairs
    Article

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Working Papers

    From Earned Authority to Imposed Authority: How Government Funding Transforms Nonprofit Accountability
    Under review at Public Choice (submitted May 2026)

    Information Without Accountability
    Under review at Journal of Institutional Economics (submitted April 2026)

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Works in Progress

    Beyond Voluntary Failure
    with Christopher J. Coyne

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

    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

    Locked In or Optimizing? Demotivating Beliefs and Institutional Quality

    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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