Assignats or Death: Hyperinflation in Revolutionary France (with J. Ingber and L. Rouanet)
Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Monetary Commons (with L. Rouanet)
The Effects of Free Banking on Competition and Economic Growth in Antebellum America (with L. Rouanet)
Monetary Rules without Romance
Works in Progress
As Good as Gold: A Framework for Analyzing Redeemable Currencies (with J. Hendrickson)
A Brief History of Private Money: Lessons for Today
Canadian Output Volatility Revisited (with C. Pender)
Dollarization as the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval (with J.P. Bastos and N. Nachanosky)
Pandemics, Business Cycles, and Counterfactuals (w. K. Grier)
Pervasive Condition or Theoretical Curiosum? Price Theory and the Monopsony Argument for a Minimum Wage (with P. Magness)
Political Biases at the Federal Reserve (with W. Luther)
Political Instability and the Demand for Money During Hyperinflation (with J. Ingber and L. Rouanet)
A Public Choice Account of Prompt Corrective Action (with T. Hogan)
Assessing the Fiscal Effects of Term Limits in the United States (with L. Rouanet and W. Whitener)
Journal Articles
Seigniorage Payments and the Federal Reserve’s New Operating Regime (with W. Luther). Economics Letters, forthcoming.
Insuring Legislative Wealth Transfers: Theory and Evidence (with A. Marsella and Y. Zhou). Public Choice, 192 2022: 127-144.
The Wild Card: Colonial Paper Money in French North America, 1685-1719 (with M. Bédard and V. Geloso). European Review of Economic History, 26(2) 2022: 185-207.
The Federal Reserve’s Response to COVID-19: An Initial Appraisal (with N. Cachanosky, T. Hogan, W. Luther, and A. Salter). Southern Economic Journal, 87(4) 2021: 1152-1174.
Forced Savings and Political Malinvestment: An Application of Steven Horwitz’s Micro foundations and Macroeconomics. Review of Austrian Economics, 34(2) 2021: 311-322.
On the Feasibility of Returning to the Gold Standard. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 78 2020: 88-97.
Seigniorage in the Civil War South (with J. Ingber). Explorations in Economic History, 72 2019: 74-92.
The Durability of Legislative Benefits and the Role of the Executive Branch’s Settlement Authority. Journal of Private Enterprise, 34(1) 2019: 1-14.
Book Chapters
Interest on Reserves: Implications for Austrian Monetary and Business Cycle Theory. A Research Agenda for Austrian Economics, Steve Horwitz and Louis Rouanet (eds). Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
Is the Gold Standard Feasible? The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect, Peter C. Earle and William J. Luther (eds). American Institute for Economic Research, 2021.
Book Reviews
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy. Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, Daniel J. Smith, Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions. Public Choice, 191(1-2) 2022: 273-276.
George Selgin, Floored! How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession. The Independent Review, 24(3) 2020.
Randall Holcombe, Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained. Public Choice, 180 2019: 501-503.
Pascal Salin, The International Monetary System and the Theory of Monetary Systems. The Independent Review, 22(3) 2017.
Popular Writing
The Fed’s Dual Mandate Is Redundant (with A. Salter), April 8, 2022. National Review.
Modern Monetary Theorists Have No Answer to Raging Inflation (with A. Salter), February 5, 2022. Washington Examiner.
Powell Steers Clear of Naïve View on Inflation (with W. Luther), January 21, 2022. National Review.
The Fed and the Limits of Discretion, December 6, 2021. National Review.
