Publications and Working Papers

Link to SSRN profile.

Published Research

  • "A Dialectical Reading of Adam Smith on Wealth and Happiness", provisionally accepted for Adam Smith special issue of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Link.
  • “Hume and Smith on Utility, Agreeableness, Propriety, and Moral Approval,” History of European Ideas (forthcoming). Coauthored with Colin Doran and Daniel B. Klein. Link.
  • “Reason and Political Economy in Hume,” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (forthcoming). Link.
  •  “Mere-Liberty in David Hume,” to appear in A Companion to David Hume (Universidad Francisco Marroquin). Coauthored with Daniel B. Klein. Link.
  •  “The Man within the Breast, the Supreme Impartial Spectator, and Other Impartial Spectators in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” History of European Ideas, 2018, 44(8): 1153-1168. Coauthored with Daniel B. Klein and Colin Doran. Link.
  • “Adam Smith’s Humean Attitude Towards Science; Illustrated by ‘The History of Astronomy’,” The Adam Smith Review, 2018, 11: 265-280. Link.
  • “The Elevated Imagination: Contemplation and Action in David Hume and Adam Smith,” The Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 2017, 15(1): 27-45. Coauthored with Colin Doran. Link.
  • “The Sympathetic Formation of Reason and the Limits of Science,” Society, 2017, 54(3): 246-252. Link.
     
Working Papers
  • “The Dual Account of Reason and the Spirit of Philosophy in Hume’s Treatise,” GMU Working Paper in Economics, No. 17-50. (Revise and resubmit at Hume Studies). Link.

Book Reviews
  • “Hayek and the Liberty of Knowledge." [A Review Essay of F.A. Hayek:  Economics, Political Economy, and Social Philosophy by Peter J. Boettke.] Published online by The University Bookman, November 25, 2018. Link.
  • A review of Rasmussen, Dennis C. 2017. The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought. Published in The Review of Austrian Economics. Link.
  • A review of Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd. 2016. Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present. Published in The Review of Austrian Economics. Link.
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