About
Assistant Professor of Economics at Virginia Wesleyan University. My research interests include defense and peace economics, public choice, institutional economics, and economic history.
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Journal Articles
“Polycentric Defense, Ukraine Style: Explaining Ukrainian Resilience Against Invasion”, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, forthcoming 2023
“Information Externalities: A Further Note on the Market Provision of National Defense”, Journal of Private Enterprise, forthcoming 2023
“The Political Economy of Wargaming”, Defence and Peace Economics, 2022, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10242694.2022.2145537?journalCode=gdpe20
“The Organization of Volunteer Battalions in Ukraine”, Constitutional Political Economy, 33, 115-134, 2022
“Assumed Military Solutions to Central Economic Planning Problems”, Review of Austrian Economics, 53, 16-27, 2022
“Crowdfunding Defense”, Public Choice, 180, 451-467, 2019
“The Enemy Votes: Weapons Improvisation and Bargaining Failure”, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 13(1), 35-42, 2018
Book Chapters
“Rent Seeking”, co-authored with Christopher J. Coyne, A. Marciano & G. B. Romello (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, 2020
“The Political Economy of Foreign Intervention”, co-authored with Christopher J. Coyne, V. H. Storr & S. Haeffele (Eds.), Government Response to Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Works In Progress
“The Voluntary Provision of Open Source Intelligence”
“The Joint Chief of Staff as a Defense Cartel”
Podcasts
“Crowdfunding a Ukrainian Defense Revisited”, Cato Daily Podcast, https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/crowdfunding-ukrainian-defense-revisited
“Is it Possible to Crowdfund a Common Defense?”, Cato Daily Podcast, https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/it-possible-crowdfund-common-defense