Research
Working Papers
Magna Carta
(with Mark Koyama and Desiree Desierto)
Railroads and American Institutional Change
(with Slade Mendenhall)
The King’s French: The Political Economy of Language
(with Alexander Taylor)
Selected Works in Progress
Islam, Trade, and the Rise of Northwestern Europe
(with Marcus Shera)
The Spanish Inquisition
(with Patrick Fitzsimmons and Henry Thompson)
Refereed Publications
Travel Speed over the Longue Durée
European Review of Economic History, forthcoming.
Why Lords Went for Luxuries
(with Daniel B. Klein)
The Independent Review, forthcoming.
Did the Great Leveling Begin After 1921?
(with Vincent Geloso and Patrick Fitzsimmons)
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2025
From Hume to Smith on the Common Law and English Liberty: A Comment on Paul Sagar
Econ Journal Watch, 2022.
Classical Liberals on ‘Social Justice’
(with Marcus Shera)
Economic Affairs, 2020.