Papers

“Role Models: The Development of Personal Identity in Markets, Morality, and Politics” (forthcoming) Public Choice.

“The Structure of Government”, in The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism, edited by Richard Epstein, Mario Rizzo, and Liya Palagashvili (Routledge, forthcoming).

“A very controversial affair: Hayek, ‘Unlimited’ Democracy, and the Pinochet Junta”, A Companion to Friedrich Hayek, edited by Rosolino Candella. (Universidad Francisco Marroquín Press, forthcoming, published in both English and Spanish) (with Andrew Farrant).

“Who Is to Put the Bell on the Cat? New Evidence on James M. Buchanan’s Early 1980s Involvement with Pinochet’s Chile” (2024) Southern Economic Journal (with Andrew Farrant).

“Elinor Ostrom’s Exploration of Self-governance” in Polycentric Governance and the Good Society, edited by Pablo Paniagua and David Thunder (Lexington Books, 2024).

“Kirzner at 50: Putting Competition Back in Competition and Entrepreneurship” (2023) Academy of Management Papers and Proceedings 2023 (1) (with Brian Albrecht, Per L. Bylund, Walter J. Ferrier, Mark D. Packard, and Peter G. Klein).

“Classical Liberalism in Romania, Past and Present” (2023) Econ Journal Watch 20(1): 85–138 (with Radu Nechita). Also included in Classical Liberalism by Country, Volume III (Fraser Institute, 2023).

“Economic Efficiency and the Quest for a More Just World”, in Realism, Ideology, and the Convulsions of Democracy edited by Marta Podemska-Mikluch, Mikayla Novak, and Richard E. Wagner (Springer, 2023).

“International Regulatory Diversity Over 50 Years: Political Entrepreneurship within Fiscal Constraints” (2022) Public Choice 193(1): 79–108 (with Ryan Safner).

“Polycentricity”, in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, edited by Christopher Melenovsky (Routledge, 2022).

“Simple Rules for a More Inclusive Economy” (2021) European Journal of Law and Economics 52: 229–249.

“Self-governance, Robust Political Economy, and the Reform of Public Administration” (2021) Social Philosophy & Policy 38(1): 170-197.

“Special Economic Zones and Liberalization Avalanches” (2021) Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 10(1): 120-139 (with Lotta Moberg).

“Elinor Ostrom as behavioral economist”, in Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences, editeb Jayme Lemke and Vlad Tarko (Agenda Publishing / McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021).

“The comparative assessment of communist and post-communist system performance and human wellbeing: Challenges and insights from in-depth case study approaches”, One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments (Central European University Press, 2021) (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“Understanding Post-Communist Transitions” (2020), Review of Austrian Economics 33(1): 163–186.

“Open-sourcing civil society”, Exploring the Social and Political Economy of Alexis de Tocqueville, edited by Peter Boettke and Adam Martin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

“Governing the Banking System: An Assessment of Resilience Based on Elinor Ostrom’s Design Principles”, (2019) Journal of Institutional Economics 15(3): 505-519 (with Alex Salter). Finalist for the Elinor Ostrom Prize of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research for best paper published in 2019.

“Freedom of Association and Its Discontents: The Calculus of Consent and the Civil Rights Movement” (2019), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 37B: 197-221 (with Santiago Gangotena).

“The Efficiency of Regulatory Arbitrage” (2019), Public Choice 181(1–2): 141–166 (with Andrew Farrant).

“Escape from Europe: A Calculus of Consent Model of the Origins of Liberal Institutions in North American Colonies” (2019), Constitutional Political Economy 30(1): 70–95 (with Kyle O’Donnell).

“James M. Buchanan’s 1981 visit to Chile: Knightian Democrat or Defender of the ‘Devil’s Fix’?” (2019) Review of Austrian Economics 32(1): 1–20 (with Andrew Farrant).

“Institutional complexity and the public choice analysis of feasible policy changes”, in Ostrom’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Public Policy of Elinor C. Ostrom, edited by Roberta Q. Herzberg, Paul Dragos Aligica, and Peter J. Boettke. (Arlington VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2019).

“Faustian bargains: Power-sharing, constitutions, and the practice of polycentricity” in Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity, eds. William A. Blomquist, Dustin Garrick and Andreas Thiel (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Edella Schlager and Mark Lutter).

“Economic Development in a Rent-Seeking Society: Socialism, State Capitalism, and Crony Capitalism in Vietnam” (2018), Canadian Journal of Development Studies 39(4): 481-499 (with Christine Ngo).

“Polycentric Banking and Macroeconomic Stability” (2017), Business and Politics 19(2): 365-395 (with Alex Salter).

“The evolution of governance structures in a polycentric system”, in Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Smart Decision-Making: Rational Decision-Making within the Bounds of Reason, ed. Morris Altman (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) (with Edward McPhail).

“Neoliberalism and Regulatory Capitalism: Exploring the ‘Freer Markets More Rules’ Puzzle” (2016), Academy of Management Proceedings 2016(1):10072 (with Paul Dragos Aligica)

“Why Hayek Matters? The Epistemic Dimension of Comparative Institutional Analysis” (2016), Advances in Austrian Economics 21: 163-185 (with Peter Boettke and Paul Dragos Aligica).

“Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility under Value Heterogeneity” (2015), Academy of Management Proceedings 2015 (1), 17539 (with Paul Dragos Aligica); winner of the Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management Division’s Halloran Best Paper on History of CSR Award; also included in Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Tradition.

“The Challenge of Empirically Assessing the Effects of Constitutions” (2015), Journal of Economic Methodology 22(1): 46-76.

“Polycentric Structure and Informal Norms: Competition and Coordination within the Scientific Community” (2015), Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 28(1): 63-80.

“The Role of Ideas in Political Economy” (2015), Review of Austrian Economics 28(1): 17-39.

“Crony capitalism” (2015), Ifo Institute, Center for Economic Studies (CES), CESIfo DICE Report: Journal for Institutional Comparisons 13(3): 27-32 (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“Crony Capitalism: Rent-Seeking, Institutions, and Ideology” (2014), Kyklos 67(2): 156-176 (with Paul Dragos Aligica); also included in Capitalist Alternatives.

“Institutional Resilience and Economic Systems: Lessons from Elinor Ostrom’s work” (2014), Comparative Economic Studies 56: 52–76 (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“Firm internationalization in transition economic systems: Insights from a Romanian case study”, in Internationalization of Firms from Economies in Transition: The Effects of a Politico-Economic Paradigm Shift edited by Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ekaterina Turkina (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“Co-Production, Polycentricity, and Value Heterogeneity: The Ostroms’ Public Choice Institutionalism Revisited” (2013), American Political Science Review 107(4): 726-741 (with Paul Dragos Aligica). A version of this is included in Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Tradition.

“Can Probability Theory Deal with Entrepreneurship?” (2013), Review of Austrian Economics 26(3): 329-345.

“Romania: Impressive short-term improvisation, continuing long-term structural problems”, in From Reform to Growth: Managing the Economic Crisis in Europe edited by Vít Novotný (Brussels, Belgium: The Center for European Studies, 2013) (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“State Capitalism and the Rent-Seeking Conjecture” (2012), Constitutional Political Economy 23(4): 357-379 (with Paul Dragos Aligica). Also included in State Capitalism edited by Barbara Krug (Edward Elgar 2015), and in Capitalist Alternatives.

“Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond” (2012), Governance 25(2): 237–262 (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“Elinor Ostrom’s life and work”, in Elinor Ostrom’s Future of the Commons: Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation (London, UK: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012).

“Challenges to technological and economic foresight in the information society” (2011), International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy 7(4): 232–250 (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

“From ‘Broad Studies’ to Internet-based ‘Expert Knowledge Aggregation’: Notes on the methodology and technology of knowledge integration” (2011), Futures 43: 986-995 (with Paul Dragos Aligica).

Book reviews

“Toward a Political Economy of the Commons: Simple Rules for Sustainability by Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Raufon Salahodjaev” (2023), The Independent Review 28(2).

“F.A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics by Scott Scheall” (2021), Public Choice, Issue 3-4.

“Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism by Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Raul Alberto Ponce-Rodriguez” (2021), Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51(2): e16.

“Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis (eds), Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States” (2017), The Independent Review 22(2).

“Randall G. Holcombe’s Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics” (2016), The Independent Review 20(4).

“Lawrence H. White’s The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Past Hundred Years” (2013), Economic Affairs, Autumn.

“Mark Pennington’s Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy” (2013), Review of Austrian Economics 26(2): 243-245.