Do you like new approaches to things? How about social contract theory? This is a very cool and rather cohesive volume on new approaches to social contract theory. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

In this paper, I put forward a non-ideal theory of corruption that intends to distinguish those cases in which corruption is the result of immoral individuals and those in which it is the result of bad laws. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

3 Year PPE Postdoc Opportunity! Interested in studying the relationship between diversity, dynamism and inclusion? Do you use formal models, computer simulations, or experimental methods in your work? Come join the PPE group at UB! ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/51121

Happy to announce that our PPE program was awarded $2.5 million to study dynamism and diversity. So excited to be a part of this team. buffalo.edu/news/releases/…

“Legibility,” “state simplification,” “high modernism,” “mētis,” “friction of terrain,”… — James Scott had a knack for generating useful concepts and terms. I’ll always be grateful for the vocabulary he created in Seeing Like a State and Against the Grain.

Are you interested in a career in law, the social sciences, politics, or business but seeking an interdisciplinary approach? The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program (PPE) at the University of Buffalo UBuffalo is just such a program that trains students to identify just,

It's important to realize that immigration has been the wellspring of innovation and economic growth over the entire history of the U.S. and well back into European history. "American Ingenuity" is heavily a story of immigration. Ali-Can Michael Muthukrishna

🚨New paper 🚨 Why does hypocrisy make us so mad? Matt Jeffers and I have a theory. Available online — open access! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Mark Pennington Malte Dold Springernomics KCL Department of Political Economy Hayek Program Please share widely, to honor Paul Lewis the Review of Austrian Economics has made available through Open Access some of his contributions through the years. link.springer.com/journal/11138/…

Had an awesome time today presenting a paper at GMU’s PPE colloquium. Thanks to Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne, and others at Mercatus Center for the killer conversation and the new books.

This is a form of terrorism.

If you’re in London and free tomorrow, I’m giving a talk at the LSE. Open to the public. lse.ac.uk/economics/even…

I help Matt Zwolinski edit the new edition of his successful reader. It is coming out on July 31st. If you’re teaching a course in political philosophy or PPE, this reader is ideal for you. Check out the table of contents and enjoy a discount: routledge.com/Arguing-About-…

Abundance theorists are right to focus on the importance of building things. But by ignoring public choice theory, they miss the risk that state-driven growth will benefit the elite rather than the masses. My review of _Abundance_ and _Why Nothing Works_, at Econlib. Link below.

The work of the Ostroms and the broader Bloomington tradition is more important than ever. This is a thought-provoking article, and I’m honored that my work with Alexander Schaefer is included, along with other scholars I know, like Peter Boettke, Vlad Tarko 🌐 🏗️, and Paul Dragos Aligica.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… A fascinating paper by Otto Lehto on the connections between evolution, complexity, intelligence, and liberalism. Do liberal institutions enhance general problem solving ability? Is “intelligence” meaningful without shared criteria of correctness?