2018 – PresentThe College at Brockport, SUNY
Assistant Professor of Economics
2015 – 2018George Mason University
Graduate Lecturer
2013 – 2018 George Mason University
PhD, Economics
2006 – 2010University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Economics and Political Science; minor in Linguistics
2020The Feudal Origins of the Western Legal Tradition
Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Ordo), Forthcoming.
2019Bubbles and Broad Money Aggregates: A New Light on Business Cycles
Eastern Economic Journal, 45(2): 250-268
2018Money and its Institutional Substitutes: The Role of Exchange Institutions in Human Cooperation
Journal of Institutional Economics, 14(4): 689-714
2016Cryptocurrency and the Problem of Intermediation
Independent Review, 20(4): 569-588.
Helicopters and the Neutrality of Money
Against Savings: A Suggested Exposition of The Markets for Money and Credit
Inside and Outside Perspectives on Legitimacy
What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance? On the Possibility of Decentralized Autonomous Finance.
Cities in the Rise and Decline of Civilizations
Giving Credit where Credit is Due: The Benefits of Bank Money
Unmixing the Metaphors of Austrian Capital Theory
What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance?
Oct 2018Research and Practice on Blockchain — Fargo, ND
Unmixing the Metaphors of Austrian Capital Theory
Nov 2019Southern Economic Association — Fort Lauderdale, FL
Helicopters and the Neutrality of Money
Feb 2017Eastern Economic Association — New York, NYNov 2016International Congress on Agent Computing — Fairfax, VAApr 2016Association of Private Enterprise Education — Las Vegas, NV
Money and its Institutional Substitutes
Nov 2016Southern Economic Association — Washington, DCSep 2016World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research — Boston, MAMay 2016Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy — Corsica, FR
Cryptocurrency and the Problem of Intermediation
Nov 2016Southern Economic Association — Washington, DC
Giving Credit where Credit is Due
Nov 2015 Southern Economic Association — New Orleans, LA
The Feudal Origins of the Western Legal Tradition
Sep 2017World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research — Utrecht, NL
Oct 2018Plenary Panel Discussant
At North Dakota State University’s “Research and Practice on Blockchain”
2014-2018Mercatus Center Ph.D. Fellowship
2016-2017IHS Humane Studies Fellowship
For “Money and its Institutional Substitutes”
2016Mercatus Summer Fellowship
For the paper “The Markets for Money and Credit: A Suggested Exposition”
2012ECAEF Vernon Smith Prize for the Advancement of Austrian Economics, First Place
For the paper “Bargaining Power and Democracy”
2012Mont Pelerin Society’s Hayek Essay Contest, First Place
For the paper “Confidence in the Pyramid: Speculation, Calculation, and Stabilization in Hayek’s Monetary Dilemma”
Fall 2018 – Spring 2020Principles of Macroeconomics
The College at Brockport – ECN 202
Summer 2015Intermediate Macroeconomics
The College at Brockport – ECN 302George Mason University – ECON 311
Fall 2015Money and Banking
George Mason University – ECON 310
Fall 2017International Money and Finance
George Mason University – ECON 420