teaching
Courses taught at Salve Regina University and George Mason University.
Salve Regina University
Spring 2026
ECN-102: Introductory MicroeconomicsSyllabus
- “Does Economics Have a Useful Past?” by George J. Stigler
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
- On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo
- Capital by Karl Marx
- Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
- Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
- “After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith?” by Kenneth E. Boulding
- The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence H. White
- Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
- “The Broken Window” by Frédéric Bastiat
- The Road to Serfdom, Condensed Version, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Friedrich A. Hayek
- “Earw(h)ig: I Can’t Hear You Because Your Ideas Are Old” by Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson
- “The Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles” by Frédéric Bastiat
- GOAT by Tyler Cowen
Fall 2025
ECN-102: Introductory MicroeconomicsSyllabus
- The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
- Fragile by Design by Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber
- “Rethinking the Fed’s Framework: Lessons from the Post-Pandemic Inflation” by Bryan P. Cutsinger
- Better Money by Lawrence H. White
George Mason University
Spring 2021
ECON 103: Contemporary Microeconomic PrinciplesSyllabus
- Games of Strategy by Avinash Dixit, Susan Skeath, and David McAdams
- Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance by Douglass C. North
- “Do Institutions Cause Growth?” by Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer
- “The Deadliest of Games: The Institution of Dueling” by Christopher Kingston and Robert E. Wright
- “Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics” by Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson
- “Informal Institutions Rule: Institutional Arrangements and Economic Performance” by Claudia Williamson
- “Gypsy Law” by Peter T. Leeson
- “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade” by Paul R. Milgrom, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast
- “The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law” by Bruce L. Benson
- “Oracles” by Peter T. Leeson
- “Ordeals” by Peter T. Leeson
- “Government, Clubs, and Constitutions” by Peter T. Leeson
- “The Infallibility of the Pope” by Mario Ferrero
- “The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development” by Barry R. Weingast
- “Not so Different after All: A Cross-Discipline View of Trust” by Denise M. Rousseau, Sim B. Sitkin, Ronald S. Burt, and Colin Camerer
- “Adam Smith and the Prisoners’ Dilemma” by Gordon Tullock
- “The Paradox of Revolution” by Gordon Tullock
- “Political Revolution and Repression: An Economic Approach” by Morris Silver
- “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” by Mancur Olson
- “An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization” by Peter T. Leeson
- “Trial by Battle” by Peter T. Leeson
- “Constitutions and Commitment” by Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast
- “Institutions: Rules or Equilibria?” by Avner Greif and Christopher Kingston
Fall 2020
ECON 306: Intermediate MicroeconomicsSyllabus
- “Was Mises Right?” by Peter J. Boettke and Peter T. Leeson
- Universal Economics by Armen A. Alchian and William R. Allen
- I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read
- “The Problem of Social Cost” by Ronald H. Coase
- “Toward a Theory of Property Rights” by Harold Demsetz
- “The Evolution of Property Rights: A Study of the American West” by Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill
- Competition and Entrepreneurship by Israel M. Kirzner
- “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Friedrich A. Hayek
- “Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy” by Peter J. Boettke
- “Public Goods” by Tyler Cowen
- “Public Choice” by William F. Shughart II
- The New World of Economics by Richard B. McKenzie and Gordon Tullock
- “The Myth of the Rational Voter” by Bryan Caplan
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- Free to Choose by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
- “The Meaning of Competition” by Friedrich A. Hayek
- “The Phantom Called ‘Monopoly’” by Hans F. Sennholz
- “Police Unions and Officer Privileges” by Tate Fegley
- “The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition” by Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel
- Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan
- “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” by Michael A. Clemens
- “Does Mass Immigration Destroy Institutions? 1990s Israel as a Natural Experiment” by Benjamin Powell, J. R. Clark, and Alex Nowrasteh
- “The Candlemakers’ Petition” by Frédéric Bastiat
- The Armchair Economist by Steven E. Landsburg
- “The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries” by Christopher J. Coyne and Peter T. Leeson
- “Escaping Poverty: Foreign Aid, Property, and Economic Development” by Peter T. Leeson
- “More People, Greater Wealth, More Resources, Healthier Environment” by Julian L. Simon