Austrian economics, institutional economics, and comparative economics
Making economics clear and compelling to broad audiences, teaching, international trade, antitrust, law and economics, public choice
Public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, economics of the family
Austrian economics, development economics, political economy
labor economics, education policy, economics of development, and undergraduate pedagogy in economics
Austrian economics, political economy, post-disaster community recovery
Chair of Department Experimental statistics and methods, emotion and individual differences, political economy
My research interests include: The historical origins of modern liberal institutions. The relationship between state capacity and economic growth. The impact of environmental shocks on institutional change and economic outcomes. Applied Econometrics with a particular emphasis on spatial data. Identification and Causality.
Policy economics, political economy, political culture, economic characterology, Adam Smith, Mercatus affiliation
National security economics, forces shaping defense expenditures in the 21st century, and economics of first century Palestine and its similarities to globalizing economies in the 21st century, productivity and job prospects of older workers
Economic development, agricultural history, environmental economics, institutional economics
Project finance and public-private hybrids; public contracts, scrutiny, and political contestability; governance, risk perception, and asset pricing
Banking and Finance, Economic History, Macroeconomics, International Finance
Economic instruction
Austrian economics, culture and economic development, and economic sociology
Public choice, political economy, law and economics and health economics
Austrian economics, economic theory, and the history of economic thought
Applied microeconomics, Labor economics, economics of discrimination
Public choice, specialization and increasing returns, consumer economics and bankruptcy