Writing

• 2024
• Working Paper

  Morality Is Fractal

• Essay

  High Culture and Hyperstimulus

• External Piece

  Should Inflation Measures Include Borrowing Costs?

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• How To

  Related Posts in WordPress with Vector Embedding

• 2023
• Journal Article

  Money’s Mutation of the Modern Moral Mind: The Simmel Hypothesis and the Cultural Evolution of WEIRDness

• External Piece

  New Inflation Numbers are a Huge Win for the Quantity Theory

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• Essay

  Phylogenesis

• Audio & Video

  The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis

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• Audio & Video

  Student Loan Forgiveness: An Economist's Analysis

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• Book Chapter

  Finance in a Theory of Money

• 2022
• Book Chapter

  Signals and Incentives in Blockchain Applications

• Audio & Video

  2022 Inflation Explainer

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• Journal Article

  Unmixing the Metaphors of Austrian Capital Theory

• Journal Article

  What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance?

• 2021
• External Piece

  Review: The Representational Theory of Capital

  —External link to www.independent.org »

• Journal Article

  Inside and Outside Perspectives on Institutions

• Essay

  In Defense of Motivated Belief

• Essay

  Professional Culture and Market Power

• 2020
• Essay

  Paternalism Is Justifiable on Civil Libertarian Grounds

• Essay

  The Linguistics of Corrupted Language: Why Orwell Doesn't Need Whorf

• Essay

  Why Is Money Morally Suspect? Karl Polanyi vs. Georg Simmel

• External Piece

  What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking

• External Piece

  It’s Not Socialism, It’s Clientelism

• Essay

  Let’s Move Past the Hayek-Keynes Debate

• Journal Article

  The Feudal Origins of the Western Legal Tradition

• Essay

  Returns to Scale, Not State Capacity

• 2019
• Essay

  Precise Theories Aren’t More Falsifiable

• External Piece

  Myth and Modernity: A Review of Persecution and Toleration

  —External link to www.liberalcurrents.com »

• Essay

  Environmentalism Needs Pronatalism

• Journal Article

  Bubbles and Broad Monetary Aggregates: Toward a Consensus Approach to Business Cycles

• Essay

  What’s Radical about MMT? An Attempt to Pin Down MMT on Public Finance

• Essay

  What Does It Mean To Impact Institutions? Tiebout vs. Cascade Models of Institutional Change

• External Piece

  Play, The Antidote to Populism

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• 2018
• Essay

  The Importance of Units in Economics

• Journal Article

  Money and its Institutional Substitutes: The Role of Exchange Institutions in Human Cooperation

• Essay

  Thoughts on the Paradox of Tolerance

• Journal Article

  Discretion Is Necessary For Commitment Power

• How To

  How To Derive A Demand Function from a CES Utility Function

• 2017
• External Piece

  Worry About Piety Contests, Not ‘Virtue Signaling’

• Essay

  Why Wittgenstein Needs Chomsky: Language vs. the Language Faculty

• Essay

  Only Outlaws Will Have Guns

• Essay

  Why I Am Not a Vegetarian: Moral Value Comes from Cooperation, Not Sentience

• Working Paper

  Against Savings: A Suggested Exposition of the Markets for Money and Credit

• Essay

  Political Philosophy Is About Norms, Not Freedom

• Essay

  The Blockchain and Economic Organization

• Essay

  A Post-Scarcity Society Would Probably Be Dystopian

• Essay

  What Bioethicists Can Learn from Calvinism

• How To

  Word Cloud

• Essay

  The State’s Double Standard

• Essay

  Why Do New Atheists Hate Group Selection?

• Essay

  On “Feels-Based” Policy

• 2016
• Essay

  Why I Don’t Worry about Nuclear War

• Essay

  Christianity, Cooperation, and State Formation

• Essay

  Why Are There Taxes? Or, Taxation Isn't About Revenue

• Essay

  Self-Interest is the Basis of Self-Denial: On Cooperative Equilibria and the Capacity for Commitment

• Essay

  The Extended Order as Moral First Principle: The Moral Philosophy of The Constitution of Liberty

• Essay

  Bootstrapping Social Cooperation

• Journal Article

  Cryptocurrency and the Problem of Intermediation

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• Essay

  Smart Contracts: Killer Enabler for Stable Value

• Essay

  The Meta Level Doesn’t Justify Itself

• Essay

  Monetary Theory as a Prototype for a Theory of Civilization

• Essay

  In Defense of Being a Specialist

• Essay

  Liberty As Legitimacy

• Essay

  Evonomics – How About Evopolitics Too?

• Essay

  Nationalism Is Weird

• Essay

  Economics Is Not About Policy

• Essay

  My Framework

• Essay

  Moral Equivalence and Opposing the Government

• 2015
• Essay

  Aggregate Demand Spillovers Aren’t Coherent

• Working Paper

  Helicopters and the Neutrality of Money

• Essay

  The Well-To-Do Minority

• Essay

  Against Opinion

• Essay

  Intellectual Property and Institutional Efficiency: The Limits of the Demsetz Story

• Essay

  The Morality of Marginalism: Risk Aversion versus Aspirational Norms

• Essay

  What Makes Economics a Human Science?

• 2014
• Essay

  The Curious Contours of Contractual Freedom: A Cynical Spin on Civil Society

• Essay

  You Have No Business Caring about the Supply Chain

• Essay

  The Apparatus Cost of Net Neutrality

• Essay

  More Rents, Less Growth

• Essay

  The Significance of Profit: A Failure of Equilibrium, or a Success of Coordination?

• Essay

  A Note on the Microeconomics of Time Preference

• Essay

  Evolution of a Logo

• Essay

  Nozick and Fractional Reserve Banking

• Essay

  Natural Law’s Burden of Proof

• Essay

  The Unit of Account Is Special; The Medium Of Exchange Is Not

• 2013
• Essay

  Apparatus Cost

• External Piece

  A Theory of Bargaining Power

• Essay

  Public Reason Liberalism and Kuyperian Epistemology

• Essay

  Shame Is Good

• External Piece

  Confidence in the Pyramid: Speculation, Calculation, and Stabilization in Hayek’s Monetary Dilemma

• Essay

  Supralapsarianism is the Only Plausible Theism

• Essay

  Virtue and the Knowledge Problem

• 2012
• Essay

  Coercion and Bargaining Power

• Essay

  Atheism and Reward Morality

• Essay

  The Political Philosophy of Star Trek: Individualism, Not Socialism

• Essay

  Hayek vs. Rothbard on Free-Market Money

• Essay

  Resumption of Indulgences Triggers Fears of Grace Inflation

• Essay

  “Conservative” and “Liberal” are Heuristics, Not Ideologies

• Essay

  Copyright Breeds Monolithic Culture

• Essay

  Right and Duty

• Essay

  The Future of English