Research
About my Research
My research focuses on political economy, economic sociology, Austrian economics, and applied microeconomics, particularly as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. My dissertation is focused on exploring the COVID-19 pandemic through the political, social, and economic lens, and my committee chairman is Virgil Storr.
My work has been published by Cambridge, The Review of Austrian Economics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Routledge, and is currently under review at several journals, including Constitutional Political Economy. I'm currently working on several projects on the economic and political consequences of COVID-19 policies, including the political incentives of mask mandates and the disruption to commercial relationships following shutdowns.
Publications
Please see my CV for a full list of publications, papers under review, and working papers.
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Research Papers
“Trust and Envy: The Political Economy of Business Groups in Developing Countries” (with Nathaniel Leff, Jeffry Frieden, and Shelby Grossman). Studies in Comparative International Development, July 2021.
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“Commercial Friendships During a Pandemic” (with Virgil H Storr and Michael Romero), The Review of Austrian Economics, October 2021.
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Book Chapters
“Elements of Economic Sociology in Classical Political Economy” (with Virgil H. Storr) in Milan Zafirovski (ed.), International Handbook of Economic Sociology, London: Routledge, forthcoming.
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“Tocquevillean Association and the Market” (with Virgil H. Storr) in Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America, ed. Richard Boyd. Cambridge University Press, pp. 278-305, 2022.
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Book Reviews
Review of The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart, by Noreena Hertz, The Review Austrian Economics, 2021.
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Review of Fundamentals of Happiness: An Economic Perspective, by Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg, The Independent Review, 27(1), Summer 2022.
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Review of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID, by Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky, Public Choice.
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From left to right: Peter J. Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Rachael Behr, and Virgil H. Storr. 19 April 2022, Dissertation Defense.
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