Economics Papers

in Refereed Journals

Religious Identity, Informal Institutions, and the Nation-States of the Near East. Journal of Economic Issues. Vol. 46. No. 3. Pp. 705-726. September 2012. JEL Classification B52, O17, O43, P48.

On Laurence Moss: Unafraid to Say the Emperor Has No Clothes. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Vol. 69. No. 1. January 2010.

Incommensurability of Economic Paradigms: A Case Study in Monetary Theory. Review of Political Economy. Vol. 13. No. 2. April 2001. Pp. 221-243. JEL Classification B1, B3, B4.

A Decade of Conflicts in Czech Economic Transformation. Journal of Economic Issues. Vol. 33. No. 2. June 1999. Pp. 315 324. JEL Classification P1, P2, P3.


Mafianomics: How did Mob Entrepreneurship infiltrate and dominate the Russian Economy? Journal of Economic Issues. Vol. 32. No. 2. June 1998. Pp. 565-574. JEL Classification P1, P2, P3.

On the Relativist Fallacy of the Impossibility of Value-Neutral Political Economy. Journal the of the History of Economic Thought. Vol. 20. No. 3. 1998. Pp. 279-298. JEL Classification B2, B3, B4.


Game Theory Models with Instrumentally Irrational Players: A Case Study of Civil War and Sectarian Cleansing. Journal of Economic Issues. Vol. 31. No. 2. June 1997. Pp. 623-32. JEL Classification P0.


Al-Maqrizi’s Book of Aiding the Nation by Investigating the Depression of 1406: Translation and Commentary. Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Vol. 12. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. Pp. 110-52. JEL Classification B1, B3, N0.

An Exercise in Theory Evaluation: Should Rival Theories of Money and Credit Continue to Survive? Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Vol. 10. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. 1994. Pp. 32-6. JEL Classification B1, B3, B4.