Research

I study institutions and the industrial organization of science.

My primary research fields are industrial organization and political economy where I focus on topics in science and “idea production” more broadly, often using applied microeconomics.

My Job Market Paper is “The Prestige-Testability Tradeoff in Science.” pdf

Publications

“Organization as a Discovery Procedure” (with Peter Boettke)
        Critical Review, 2025. doi

“Ideas, Institutions, and Incompleteness” (with Marcus Shera)
        Journal of Institutional Economics, 2025. doi

“Contingency and increasing returns: a review essay of the Corporation and the Twentieth Century”
        The Review of Austrian Economics, 2024. doi

Works in Progress

“Private Innovation Policy: The Case of Platforms”

“Consistency, Completeness, and Coordination” (with Marcus Shera)

“Cantillon Rent Assets: Credible Monetary Policy in a Fiat Standard”