Does coercion improve economic well-being? In terms of standard narratives in normative economics, someone can answer in the affirmative using positive rights-based models. In those models, the state’s coercive powers are used to extract tax revenues that finance produce goods and services...

The inefficiencies of common property fisheries are well-known to economists. To avoid over-exploitation, they propose multiple forms of government solutions like taxes, quotas and the enforcement of property rights regimes designed to avoid over-harvesting. However, can there be efficient...

This paper connects the theory of the market process to scholarship on nonviolent action. Doing so advances market process theory by bringing its interaction with nonviolent action and its peace-building potential to the forefront. It advances scholarship on nonviolent action by extending the...

Effective leaders promote cooperation among their followers. Although many studies have focused on approaches to effective leadership, few have studied how social identity—both the leader’s and the group’s—impacts a leader’s effectiveness. We use a theoretical framework and a novel...

Contrary to predictions by many experts, Ukraine’s military has been resilient in the face of the Russian government’s invasion. Drawing on the logic of polycentric defense, this paper helps explain how Ukraine has remained resistant against a conventionally more powerful adversary. We argue...

In 1903 the Italian economist Amilcare Puviani articulated a theory of fiscal illusion to promote better understanding of the course of political action. Puviani created his theory to explain the failure of political pronouncements to reflect the reality to which those pronouncements claimed to...

GPTs, such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat, are capable of answering economics questions, solving specific economic models, creating exams, assisting with research, generating ideas, and enhancing writing, among other tasks. This paper highlights how these innovative tools differ from prior software...

I am delighted to be invited to offer these four lectures on economics as a science of social organization, which offers a refurbishment of vision of economics established by the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Starting late in the 19th century this vision gave way to the vision of...

Does it pay to appear unbiased in an attention-based economy where bias sells? We consider this question in a context with growing consumer polarization and partisan and neutral online news providers. We provide a game-theoretic framework that captures many essential properties of the online...

What is the relationship between education and peace? While economists have written about the relationship between education and economic prosperity and about how economic trade and prosperity affect peace, in this paper we highlight a different and more direct connection between education and...