"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 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
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Alex Fink
The Socialists’ Hypotheses and The Road to Serfdom
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
🕰️ 2025
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas A. Jensen
The Road to Serfdom and the Definitions of Socialism, Planning, and the Welfare State, 1930-1950
HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
🕰️ 2025
👥 with Daniel J Smith and Nicholas A. Jensen
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?
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)