Always enjoy the casual bilingualism, however imperfect, when I arrive in Canadian cities

Everyone who is supporting 😡 because they think it's going to be good for their business should read this piece about what it's really like doing business in a state that claims "plenary authority": www.economist.com/business/202...

New working paper showing that Citizens United led to an increased per capita propensity to incorporate corporations in general and LLCs in particular

Pleased to share our new paper now out in Perspectives on Politics! Happy to discuss and looking forward to hearing thoughts and suggestions for further research.

I finally have a proper arxiv account! Check out this thesis I wrote on the moduli space of the SU(2) singular monopole, showing it to be isometric to a solution of Einstein's equations.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.13424

I have a new working paper up at SSRN. In this paper, I examine the Robinson Crusoe toy models of consumption and exchange over time to demonstrate an inductive method of economic modeling using signals and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Did Citizens United increase the propensity to form corporations, and LLCs in particular, to conceal one's identity when spending money in politics? Using a diff-in-diff design, I find the answer is "yes, it did!". See working paper (now on SSRN!) below.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....