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 Stigler
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Smith
- The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbroner
- On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by Ricardo
- Capital by Marx
- Principles of Economics by Menger
- Principles of Political Economy by Mill
- Utilitarianism by Mill
- On Liberty by Mill
- Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy by Schumpeter
- “After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith?” by Boulding
- The Clash of Economic Ideas by White
- Human Action by Mises
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by Keynes
- “The Broken Window” by Bastiat
- The Road to Serfdom, Condensed Version, by Hayek
- “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Hayek
- “Earw(h)ig: I Can’t Hear You Because Your Ideas Are Old” by Boettke, Coyne, and Leeson
- “The Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles” by Bastiat
- GOAT by Cowen
Fall 2025
ECN-102: Introductory MicroeconomicsSyllabus
- The Ascent of Money by Ferguson
- Fragile by Design by Calomiris & Haber
- “Rethinking the Fed’s Framework: Lessons from the Post-Pandemic Inflation” by Cutsinger
- Better Money by White
George Mason University
Spring 2021
ECON 103: Contemporary Microeconomic PrinciplesSyllabus
- Games of Strategy by Dixit, Skeath, and McAdams
- Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance by North
- “Do Institutions Cause Growth?” by Glaeser, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer
- “The Deadliest of Games: The Institution of Dueling” by Kingston and Wright
- “Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics” by Boettke, Coyne, and Leeson
- “Informal Institutions Rule: Institutional Arrangements and Economic Performance” by Williamson
- “Gypsy Law” by Leeson
- “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade” by Milgrom, North, and Weingast
- “The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law” by Benson
- “Oracles” by Leeson
- “Ordeals” by Leeson
- “Government, Clubs, and Constitutions” by Leeson
- “The Infallibility of the Pope” by Ferrero
- “The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development” by Weingast
- “Not so Different after All: A Cross-Discipline View of Trust” by Rousseau, Sitkin, Burt, and Camerer
- “Adam Smith and the Prisoners’ Dilemma” by Tullock
- “The Paradox of Revolution” by Tullock
- “Political Revolution and Repression: An Economic Approach” by Silver
- “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” by Olson
- “An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization” by Leeson
- “Trial by Battle” by Leeson
- “Constitutions and Commitment” by North and Weingast
- “Institutions: Rules or Equilibria?” by Greif and Kingston
Fall 2020
ECON 306: Intermediate MicroeconomicsSyllabus
- “Was Mises Right?” by Boettke and Leeson
- Universal Economics by Alchian and Allen
- I, Pencil by Read
- “The Problem of Social Cost” by Coase
- “Toward a Theory of Property Rights” by Demsetz
- “The Evolution of Property Rights: A Study of the American West” by Anderson and Hill
- Competition and Entrepreneurship by Kirzner
- “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Hayek
- “Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy” by Boettke
- “Public Goods” by Cowen
- “Public Choice” by Shughart II
- The New World of Economics by McKenzie and Tullock
- “The Myth of the Rational Voter” by Caplan
- Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt
- Free to Choose by Friedman and Friedman
- “The Meaning of Competition” by Hayek
- “The Phantom Called ‘Monopoly’” by Sennholz
- “Police Unions and Officer Privileges” by Fegley
- “The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition” by Miron and Zwiebel
- Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Caplan
- “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” by Clemens
- “Does Mass Immigration Destroy Institutions? 1990s Israel as a Natural Experiment” by Powell, Clark, and Nowrasteh
- “The Candlemakers’ Petition” by Bastiat
- The Armchair Economist by Landsburg
- “The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries” by Coyne and Leeson
- “Escaping Poverty: Foreign Aid, Property, and Economic Development” by Leeson
- “More People, Greater Wealth, More Resources, Healthier Environment” by Simon