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Journal Articles

2024

1. Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?
   Journal of Private Enterprise, 2024, 39, (Spring 2024), 1-9

2022

2. Cash, crime, and cryptocurrencies
   The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2022, 85, (C), 200-207 View citations (2)
3. Central bank independence and the Federal Reserve's new operating regime
   The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2022, 84, (C), 510-515 View citations (1)
4. Regulatory ambiguity in the market for bitcoin
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2022, 35, (1), 1-14
5. Seigniorage payments and the Federal Reserve’s new operating regime
   Economics Letters, 2022, 220, (C) View citations (2)

2021

6. Behavioral and Policy Responses to COVID-19: Evidence from Google Mobility Data on State- Level Stay-at-Home Orders*
   Journal of Private Enterprise, 2021, 36, (Fall 2021), 67-89 View citations (1)
7. The Federal Reserve's response to the COVID‐19 contraction: An initial appraisal
   Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87, (4), 1152-1174 View citations (7)
8. Two paths forward for Austrian macroeconomics
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2021, 34, (2), 289-297 View citations (1)

2020

9. Cross-Country Differences in Personal Protective Equipment Use
   Journal of Private Enterprise, 2020, 35, (Winter 2020), 21-27
10. Is Bitcoin a decentralized payment mechanism?
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2020, 16, (4), 433-444 View citations (5)
11. Is bitcoin money? And what that means
    The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2020, 77, (C), 144-149 View citations (16)
12. Suboptimal Equilibria from Nominal GDP Targeting
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2020, 35, (Summer 2020), 61-76 View citations (1)

2019

13. Adaptation and central banking
    Public Choice, 2019, 180, (3), 243-256 View citations (11)
14. David Golumbia, The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2019, 32, (1), 85-88
15. Endogenous Matching and Money with Random Consumption Preferences
    The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2019, 19, (2), 9 View citations (1)
16. Getting off the ground: the case of bitcoin
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019, 15, (2), 189-205 View citations (11)

2018

17. Austrian Macroeconomics in Search of Its Uniqueness
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2018, 33, (Summer 2018), 1-20 View citations (6)
18. Is Bitcoin Intrinsically Worthless?
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2018, 33, (Spring 2018), 31-45 View citations (12)

2017

19. Banning bitcoin
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, (C), 188-195 View citations (10)
20. Bitcoin and the bailout
    The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2017, 66, (C), 50-56 View citations (67)

2016

21. CRYPTOCURRENCIES, NETWORK EFFECTS, AND SWITCHING COSTS
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34, (3), 553-571 View citations (44)
22. Mises and the moderns on the inessentiality of money in equilibrium
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2016, 29, (1), 1-13 View citations (6)
23. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BITCOIN
    Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54, (2), 925-939 View citations (52)
24. The Implicit Costs of Government Deposit Insurance
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2016, 31, (Summer 2016), 1-13 View citations (1)
    Also in Cato Journal, 2014, 34, (1), 145-170 (2014) View citations (4)

2015

25. Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger, Ownership Economics: On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development, edited by Frank Decker (New York and London: Routledge, 2013), pp. xvii, 192, hardcover, $130. ISBN: 978-0415-64546-1
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 37, (1), 155-157
26. The monetary mechanism of stateless Somalia
    Public Choice, 2015, 165, (1), 45-58 View citations (10)
27. Using NPR's Planet Money Podcast in Principles of Macroeconomics
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2015, 30, (Spring 2015), 143-154 View citations (2)

2014

28. An Empirical Analysis of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2014, 42, (2), 153-169 View citations (17)
29. Evenly rotating economy: A new modeling technique for an old equilibrium construct
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2014, 27, (4), 403-417 View citations (5)

2013

30. Friedman Versus Hayek on Private Outside Monies: New Evidence for the Debate
    Economic Affairs, 2013, 33, (1), 127-135 View citations (13)

2012

31. All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis – By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
    Economic Affairs, 2012, 32, (1), 85-86
32. Hayek, Keynes, and modern macroeconomics
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2012, 25, (3), 223-241 View citations (8)
33. Monetary equilibrium and price stickiness reconsidered: A reply to Bagus and Howden
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2012, 25, (3), 263-269 View citations (4)

2011

34. Jimmy Stewart is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking – By Laurence J. Kotlikoff
    Economic Affairs, 2011, 31, (1), 140-141

Chapters

2022

1. On the origins of cryptocurrencies
   Chapter 11 in A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics, 2022, pp 200-215
2. The value of bitcoin in the year 2141 (and beyond!)
   Chapter 4 in The Economics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 2022, pp 51-68

2016

3. On the Empirical Relevance of the Mises–Hayek Theory of the Trade Cycle
   A chapter in Studies in Austrian Macroeconomics, 2016, vol. 20, pp 79-103 View citations (4)
4. The Optimal Austrian Business Cycle Theory
   A chapter in Studies in Austrian Macroeconomics, 2016, vol. 20, pp 45-60 View citations (6)

2014

5. Synthesizing State and Spontaneous Order Theories of Money
   A chapter in Entangled Political Economy, 2014, vol. 18, pp 161-178 View citations (9)

2011

6. The Great Recession and its Aftermath from a Monetary Equilibrium Theory Perspective
   Chapter 4 in The Global Financial Crisis, 2011 View citations (6)

2010

7. The Ordinary Economics of an Extraordinary Crisis
   Chapter 1 in Macroeconomic Theory and its Failings, 2010 View citations (8)