Working Papers:
“What Happened on Blackstone Avenue? Transaction Costs, Scholarly Midwives, and the Birth of the Coase Theorem.” Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper 2021–14. Revise and resubmit, History of Political Economy.
“Henry Manne, Pareto in the Pines, and the Origins of the Law and Economics Movement” (with David Gindis). Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper 2026-03, DukeUniversity.
Selected Recent Publications:
“Modeling Coase Theorem Worlds: Why the History of Economic Analysis Matters for the History of (Economic) Science.” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (forthcoming).
“How Textbooks Create Knowledge and Meaning: The Case of the Coase Theorem in Intermediate Microeconomics.” History of Political Economy (forthcoming).
“One Man Does Not a Committee Make: Henry Manne, the AEA–AALS Joint Committee, and the Struggle to Institutionalize Law and Economics” (with David Gindis), History of Political Economy 57 (June 2025): 405–440. Ungated version: Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper 2022–14, Duke University.
“Editing Book Reviews in the History of Economics: An Interview with Steven G. Medema” (with Julien Gradoz), Oeconomia—History | Methodology | Philosophy 15 (1, 2025): 101–119.
“The Coase Theorem,” in Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds., The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd edn. Berlin: Springer, 2025, pp. 304–308.
“The Road Not Taken: Some Fallacies of Knight on Pigou on Social Cost,” forthcoming in Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino Candela and Solomon Stein, eds., Knight’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of Frank Knight.” Arlingon, VA: Mercatus Center.
“‘I Get by with a Little Help from My Friends’: An Editor’s Retrospective.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 46 (December 2024): 663–68.
“Identifying a ‘Chicago School’ of Economics: On the Origins, Evolution, and Evolving Meanings of a Famous Brand Name.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 46 (June 2024): 169–200. Ungated version: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3961525.
“In Search of Santa Claus: Samuelson, Stigler, and Coase Theorem Worlds.” In Bruce Caldwell, John Davis, Uskali Mäki, and Esther-Mirjam Sent, eds., Methodology and History of Economics: Reflections with and without Rules. Essays in Honour of D. Wade Hands. London: Routledge, 2023, 71-89.
“Nonwelfarism in the Early Debates Over the Coase Theorem: The Case of Environmental Economics.” In Antoinette Baujard, Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., Welfare Theory, Public Action and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Ungated version.
“The Coase Theorem at Sixty,” Journal of Economic Literature 58 (December 2020): 1045-1128. Ungated version.
“Embracing at Arm’s Length: Ronald Coase’s Uneasy Relationship with ‘Chicago School’.” Oxford Economic Papers 72 (October 2020): 1072-1090. Ungated version.
“Between LSE and Cambridge: Accounting for Coase’s Fascination with Alfred Marshall.” In Katia Caldari, Marco Dardi, and Steven G. Medema, eds., Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tiziano Raffaelli. London: Palgrave, 2020. SSRN working paper version here.
“‘Exceptional and Unimportant’? Externalities, Competitive Equilibrium, and the Myth of a Pigovian Tradition,” History of Political Economy 52 (February 2020): 135-170. Ungated version.
“Disciplinary Collisions: Blum, Kalven, and the Economic Analyses of Accident Law at Chicago in the 1960s” (with Alain Marciano), in Magdalena Malecka and Péter Cserne, eds., Law and Economics and Interdisciplinary Exchange. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 53-75. SSRN working paper version here.
“The Economist and the Economist’s Audience,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 41 (September 2019): 335-41.
“Scientific Imperialism, or Merely Boundary Crossing? Economists, Lawyers, and the Coase Theorem at the Dawn of the Economic Analysis of Law,” in Uskali Mäki, Adrian Walsh, and Manuela Fernández Pinto, eds., Scientific Imperialism: Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 89-116.
A complete list of publications can be found at the CV link, above.
