Forthcoming in Social Science History -- my symposium article on Alexander Field's book arguing that America was not particularly productive during WWII. America won by overproducing, not by producing well.

Now available in the Canadian Journal of Economics, my paper with Chandler Reilly on Quebec's Quiet Revolution (QR) TLDR: The QR didnt accelerate economic growth nor did it change most socio-economic outcomes in a meaningful manner. It did cause more gov spending (link next)

Early View: “Revisiting Quebec's Quiet Revolution: A synthetic control analysis,” by Vincent Geloso (Vincent Geloso George Mason Economics) and Chandler S. Reilly (Chandler Reilly). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ca…. Wiley Economics

Spring issue of The Independent Review is now published - independent.org/publications/t… Independent Institute

Chandler Reilly and I just received conditional acceptance for a rather unusual paper at the Review of Austrian Economics (see full thread below). The paper has two main aims. First, we seek to reconcile Austrian economists with some of the tools of national accounting by

Trump’s push for price controls and tax relief to fix problems caused by his own tariffs is a textbook case of the dynamics of interventionism. I make the case in this short piece at The Daily Economy: thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-in…

tariffs may raise prices a lot but they also keep a steel factory open for like 4 more months, so it's impossible to say if they're bad or not

while reading the tweet below from the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, I was reminded of one of my favorite Ludwig von Mises quotes: "All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but

Tariffs are back in fashion, and we all know the Econ 101 case against them. But allows such policies to be implemented? It’s not just populism or economic ignorance: It’s a failure of constitutional safeguards. 🧵

Trade is not a light switch. Protectionist policies sever the global networks that modern production relies on. When access to large markets is lost, investments in specialized machinery, software, and infrastructure become uneconomical. Contracts dissolve. Costs rise. Capacity

This paper (with Chandler Reilly), which is now in the Review of Austrian Economics, builds a GDP measure excluding military spending and price controls—following Buchanan, Tobin, Nordhaus, and Kuznets—revealing key reinterpretations of U.S. economic history.

GDP includes defense spending—but should it? In this summary of our Review of Austrian Economics article, Chandler Reilly and I argue it shouldn’t. This gives a more accurate depiction of the evolution of living standards in the USA since 1790 thedailyeconomy.org/article/making…

Should gdp include defense spending? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

My colleague tylercowen discusses my paper—co-authored with Chandler Reilly and published in the Review of Austrian Economics—over at Marginal Revolution, exploring whether GDP should include defense spending. We get a fair amount of pushback in the comments, but in the

Should gdp include defense spending? - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… Chandler Reilly Vincent Geloso get the 👍🏻 in Marginal Revolution

Coming out later today or tomorrow, my paper with Chandler Reilly. We're putting the finishing touches. It makes the claim that Murray Rothbard's concept of PPR can be used as a complement to GDP because it allows us to venture into how states contribute to economic growth.

Chandler Reilly (Chandler Reilly) and I discussed our work on why Murray Rothbard’s measure of the private economy should be used by everyone as a complement to GDP. We were happy Robert P. Murphy invited us to do so youtu.be/fyOOMWaJg0Y?si…

The Sacrifice Trap of War SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

✨New Article ✨ Ever wondered about the distribution of economic freedom within a country? This article by Christina Peters, Maria Tackett, and Alexandre Padilla examines the role of foreign education on gender disparities in economic freedom.