I’m an Associate Professor of Economics in the Winklevoss School of Business at Grove City College and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. My work centers on the economics of institutions—the formal and informal rules, ancient and modern—that emerge, function, and adapt to quietly solve the age-old puzzle of social cooperation.
To better understand how this cooperation takes root and flourishes, I integrate the property rights, public choice, and market process traditions. My research has appeared in the Journal of Business Venturing (Best Paper of 2022), Public Choice, and the International Review of Law and Economics.
A significant part of my work is translational research: bringing the economic point of view to lay audiences, students, and skeptics alike. My books, No Free Lunch and Mere Economics, along with my blog, Marginalia, reflect a commitment to making economics not just accessible, but engaging and even contagious.
We shape our constraints, then they shape us.