"The democratic state’s true ‘will’ is a product of compromise, a nebulous common denominator of everyone’s ephemeral and conflicting interests, as interpreted by fallible elected politicians and honest and dishonest professional bureaucrats."
- José Osvaldo de Meira Penna Meira Penna in O dinossauro
Research
My academic exploration involves delving into the intellectual legacies of economists and political philosophers, such as Hayek, Lerner, Lange, Keynes, Mises, List, Locke, and many others. I am also always thriving to study the enduring influences of past traditions, narratives, ideas, and institutions on our contemporary world.
Scholarly Writing
The Road to Serfdom and the Definitions of Socialism, Planning, and the Welfare State, 1930-1950
HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
🕰️ Forthcoming 2024
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas A. Jensen
The Socialists’ Hypotheses and The Road to Serfdom
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
🕰️ Forthcoming 2024
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas A. Jensen
The Rise of Commerce and the Road to Prosperity: The Results of Private Enterprise in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance Italy
Book chapter in Stringham, Edward's (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Private Enterprise
🕰️ Forthcoming 2024
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Alex Fink
The Spontaneous Provision of Criminal Law
PUBLIC CHOICE, special issue on Humanomics
🕰️ 2024
👥 with Henry A. Thompson
You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Chains? Re-examining the Hayek-Friedman Hypothesis on the Relationship Between Capitalism and Political Freedom
PUBLIC CHOICE, special issue on Humanomics
🕰️ 2024
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas A Reinarts
Analyzing the Lange-Lerner Hypothesis: Is a Monopolized Banking Sector a Threat to Democracy?
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE
🕰️ 2024
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas A Reinarts
Not-So-Spontaneous Socialization Outcomes of Spontaneous Family Structures
COSMOS + TAXIS
🕰️ 2023
👥 with Daniel J Smith
The King’s Gambit: Rationalizing the Fall of the Templars
RATIONALITY AND SOCIETY
🕰️ 2023
👥 with Marcus Shera
Power to the People? Lobbying for Labor rights in Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly
THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW
🕰️ 2023
The Wisdom of Classical Political Economy in Economics: Incorporated or Lost?
THE REVIEW OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS
🕰️ 2023
👥 with Daniel J Smith
Friedrich List’s Critique of the Methuen Treaty
IBERIAN JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
🕰️ 2022
Work in Progress
John Locke and the Freedom to Associate" (Book Chapter: R&R)
"Mises and the Disutility of Labor" (Book Chapter: Work in Progress)
"The Price of Silence" with Henry A. Thompson and Garrett Scott (Work in Progress)
"Contextualizing The Road to Serfdom: Investigating the Common Understanding of Socialism, Planning, and the Welfare State, 1930–1950" with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas Jensen (Work in Progress)
Comrades Bowling Alone: The Impact of State Ownership of the Economy on Civil Society with Nicholas A. Reinarts and Daniel J. Smith (Work in Progress)
Stonewalling Progress: Socialism and LGBT Political Inclusion with Nicholas A. Reinarts and Daniel J. Smith (Work in Progress)