Current Research Agenda

My research asks how institutions shape discovery: what people are able to try, learn, build, and sustain under different political and regulatory arrangements.

Forgone Innovation

This project studies the discoveries, technologies, business models, and forms of organization that never emerge because rules make them illegal, unfundable, too risky, or too cumbersome to try. My recent work develops the idea of regulation as pruning the adjacent possible: narrowing not only what people may do now, but what future possibilities can be discovered.

Entangled Political Economy

This work examines how political and economic life evolve together. Rather than treating markets and politics as separate spheres, entangled political economy studies how rules, permissions, mandates, subsidies, and political relationships become woven into ordinary economic life. I am especially interested in how democratic systems reshape exchange, responsibility, and the conditions of liberal order.

Public Writing and Applied Work

I also write for broader audiences about institutions, discovery, freedom, health care, prediction markets, and civic life. These essays are a place to translate academic ideas, test emerging questions, and explore how political economy helps us understand ordinary life.