Research

Books & Edited Volumes

Tocqueville’s Tensions: Reexamining Alexis de Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America.’ Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, forthcoming. (edited with Virgil Henry Storr and Brianne Wolf)

Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (edited with Virgil Henry Storr)

Nudging Public Policy: Examining the Benefits and Limitations of Paternalistic Public Policies. London: Rowman & Little International, 2021. (edited with Rosemarie Fike and Arielle John)

Hayek’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of F. A. Hayek. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2020. (edited with Solomon M. Stein and Virgil Henry Storr)

Bottom-up Responses to Crisis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (edited with Virgil Henry Storr)

Government Responses to Crisis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (edited with Virgil Henry Storr)

The Need for Humility in Policymaking: Lessons from Regulatory Policy. London: Rowman & Little International, 2019. (edited with Anne Hobson)

Informing Public Policy: Analyzing Contemporary US and International Policy Issues Through the Lens of Market Process Economics. London: Rowman & Little International, 2019. (edited with Abigail R. Hall and Adam Millsap)

Knowledge and Incentives in Policy: Using Public Choice and Market Process Theory to Analyze Public Policy Issues. London: Rowman & Little International, 2018. (edited)

Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan. London: Rowman & Little International, 2018.  (edited with Paul Dragos Aligica and Christopher J. Coyne)

Mainline Economics: Six Nobel Lectures in the Tradition of Adam Smith. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center, September 2016. (edited with Peter J. Boettke and Virgil Henry Storr)

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2015. (with Virgil Henry Storr and Laura E. Grube)

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

“Lasting Liberation? Understanding Top-Down Efforts for Women’s Liberation in Cuba from 1960–1980,” Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming. (with Jessica Carges)  

“Complex Immigrant Families: Extending the Notions of the Family to Account for the Adaptive and Dynamic Immigrant Experience,” Cosmos + Taxis, forthcoming. (with Karla Segovia)

“Introduction” to the special issue “250 Years In: Reflections on Liberal Democracy in the United States,” Markets & Society, 2026, 2 (1). (with Jayme S. Lemke)

Co-editor of the special issue, “250 Years In: Reflections on Liberal Democracy in the United States.” (with Jayme S. Lemke)

“People, Places and Social Change,” in Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, Volume XVI: Entrepreneurship and the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2024-2025, ed. Laura E. Grube. Beloit, WI: Beloit College Press, 2025. (with Laura E. Grube)

“An Interdisciplinary Space to Explore the Nature of Markets and the Possibility of Society,” Markets & Society, 2024, 1 (1): 1—11. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Beyond Hayekian Equality,” Social Philosophy & Policy, Winter 2022 (2023), 39 (2): 188–209. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Viviana Zelizer: Relational Exchange and Association,” The Independent Review, 2023, 28 (2): 313–322. (with Jessica Carges*)

“The Perils of Regulating COVID-19: Insights from Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and Ostromian Polycentricity,” Economics of Governance, 2023, 24 (3): 331–355. (with Jordan K. Lofthouse and Agustin Forzani*)

“Disaster Challenges and Entrepreneurial Responses,” in Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters, ed. Mark Skidmore. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. (with Virgil Henry Storr and Alexander W. Craig)

“Entrepreneurship during a pandemic,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 2022, 54, 83–105. (with Virgil Henry Storr, Jordan K. Lofthouse, and Anne Hobson*)

“Understanding Disasters: Questions Should Drive Methods and Other Interdisciplinary Lessons,” in Research Methods of Disaster and Emergency Management: Approaches in Application, ed. Jason D. Rivera. New York: Routledge, 2021. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Crisis as a Source of Social Capital: Adaptation and Formation of Social Capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Cosmos + Taxis, 2021, 9 (5+6): 94–108. (with Virgil Henry Storr, Laura E. Grube, and Jordan K. Lofthouse)

“Essential or Not? Knowledge Problems and COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders,” Southern Economics Journal, 2021, 87 (4): 1229–1249. (with Virgil Henry Storr, Jordan K. Lofthouse, and Laura E. Grube)

“Rhetoric as a way of limiting the range of acceptable policy positions,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2021, 36 (1): 1–16. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

Recipient of the Journal of Private Enterprise Best Paper Award in 2021

“Governance for living better together: A special issue on public administration and self-governance,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2021, 34: 341—346. (with Yuliya Yatsyshina)

Guest editor for the special issue on public administration and self governance, featuring a symposium on Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Perspective, by Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J. Boettke, and Vlad Tarko (2019) and Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance by Paul Dragos Aligica (2018)

“Commercial social spaces in the post-disaster context,” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2020, 9(3): 303–317. (with Alexander W. Craig*)

“The Role of Entrepreneurs in Facilitating Remittances in Cuba,” in Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development, eds. Nabamita Dutta and Claudia Williamson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. (with Anne Hobson*)

“Understanding Nonprofit Social Enterprises: Lessons from Austrian Economics,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2019, 32(3): 229–249. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Is Social Justice a Mirage?” The Independent Review, 2019, 24(1): 145–155. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Adam Smith and the study of ethics in a commercial society,” in Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics, ed. Mark D. White. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Hierarchical Management Structures and Housing the Poor: An Analysis of Habitat for Humanity in Birmingham, Alabama,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2019, 34(1): 15–37. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Entrepreneurs drive community revival in the wake of disaster,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2018, 31(4): 479–484. (with Virgil Henry Storr and Laura E. Grube)

“Unreasonableness and Heterogeneity in Buchanan’s Constitutional Project,” in Buchanan’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, eds. Peter J. Boettke and Solomon Stein. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2018. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Entrepreneurship and Disaster Recovery,” Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Public Life, 2018, 11:  75–90. (with Alexander W. Craig*)

“Learning from Disasters in Mississippi,” in Promoting Prosperity in Mississippi, eds. Brandon N. Cline, Russell S. Sobel, and Claudia R. Williamson. Starkville, MS: Mississippi State University Institute for Market Studies, 2018. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Social Capital and Social Learning after Hurricane Sandy,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2017, 30(4): 447–467. (with Virgil Henry Storr and Laura E. Grube)

“Polycentric orders and post-disaster recovery: a case study of one Orthodox Jewish community following Hurricane Sandy,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 2017, 13(4): 875–897. (with Virgil Henry Storr and Laura E. Grube)

“The Organizational Evolution of the American National Red Cross: An Austrian and Bloomington approach to organizational growth and expansion,” in The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 22), eds. Paul Dragos Aligica, Paul A. Lewis, and Virgil Henry Storr. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2017. (with Laura E. Grube and ErikaGrace Davies*)

“Local Recovery: How Robust Community Rebound Necessarily Comes from the Bottom Up,” in The Future of Disaster Management in the US: Rethinking Legislation, Policy, and Finance, ed. Amy Lepore, New York: Routledge, 2017. (with Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Henry Storr)

“Austrian contributions to the literature on natural and unnatural disasters,” in New Thinking in Austrian Political Economy (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 19), eds. Christopher J. Coyne and Virgil Henry Storr, Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2015. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Grover Cleveland against the Special Interests,” The Independent Review, 2014, 18(4): 581–596. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Post-disaster Community Recovery in Heterogeneous, Loosely Connected Communities,” Review of Social Economy, 2012, 70(3): 295–314. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

Other Academic Publications

“The COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Local Recovery and Implications,” University of North Alabama Regional Economic Update, July 2020, 2 (1): 2—3.

“Voices: The Chaos after the Storm: Create Space for Entrepreneurship,” One Earth, 2020, 2 (6): 490. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Foreword to the Mercatus Edition” in Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie, ed. Jack High, Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2017. (with Solomon Stein)

“People Matter: The Social Element of Disaster Response and Recovery,” Research Counts, University of Colorado-Boulder Natural Hazard Center, October 10, 2017. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

Selected Policy, Popular Press, & Online Publications

“Politicians Shouldn’t Blame Freedom for a Fraying Society,” The Hill, September 25, 2025. (with Mikayla Novak)

“3 Lessons We’ve Learned 20 Years After Katrina,” Tribune News Service, September 10, 2025. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Civil Society is Not Dead Just Yet,” The Hill, May 30, 2025. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Alternatives to a Burgeoning Bureaucracy: Lessons from Ludwig von Mises's Bureaucracy,” The Library of Economics and Liberty: Book Review, Liberty Classics, February 1, 2021. (with Anne Hobson*)

“Polycentricity Amidst a Pandemic,” The Vienna Circle, June 17, 2020. (with Jessica Carges* and Anne Hobson*)

“Reassessing the Notion of Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” The Vienna Circle, April 30, 2020. (with Alice Calder) 

“Coming Back from COVID-19: Lessons in Entrepreneurship from Disaster Recovery Research,” The Vienna Circle, April 30, 2020. (with Anne Hobson* and Virgil Henry Storr)

“Inside Leviathan: Lessons from Gordon Tullock’s Bureaucracy,” The Library of Economics and Liberty: Liberty Classics, November 4, 2019. (with Anne Hobson*)

“Cubans and Americans Caught in the Political Crossfire,” The Bridge, May 13, 2019. (with Anne Hobson*)

“An Appeal to Moderation: Adam Smith is right: Moderation in politics is paramount in today's polarized America,” U.S. News and World Report, August 7, 2017. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“The Case for Ordinary Economics: 3 basic economic principles can guide us through today’s chaotic political landscape,” U.S. News and World Report, June 5, 2017. (with Peter J. Boettke)

“Disasters Should Be Dull: But as long as distance authorities are in charge, that’s impossible,” Reason Magazine, February 2017 (with Daniel M. Rothschild)

“The Post-Katrina Model: California should embrace lessons from Hurricane Katrina and lead its post-wildfire recovery from the bottom up,” US News and World Report, August 8, 2016. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

“Neighborly Solutions to a Blizzard of Problems,” Washington Post, February 1, 2016. (with Virgil Henry Storr)

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