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Publications and Research
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2015 “No Representation without Taxation: Lessons from European History.” Politics & Society
September 2015, vol. 43 no. 3, pp. 303-332.
2013 “The Equalizing Hand: Why Adam Smith Thought the Market Should Produce Perspectives on Politics
Wealth Without Steep Inequality,” 1051-1070
2007 “The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea: Or, Why Liberals Should Learn Perspectives on Politics
to Relax and Love the Balance of Power,” 703-727
Book
“From Roving to Stationary Judges: Power, Land, Justice, and the Origins of Representative Institutions”
(Table of Contents)
Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Reviews, Newsletters, and Encyclopedia Entries
2017 Book Symposium on Lisa Herzog’s, Inventing the market: Smith, Hegel, and political The Adam Smith Review
theory, Vol. 10 (in press; 5,240 words)
2017 Populism, Taxation of Elites, and the Origins of Constitutional Governance, invited APSA History and Politics Newsletter
submission to “Roundtable: Historical Parallels 2016,” Winter, Vol. 2, Issue 2
2014 “Balance of Power.” Ed. M. T. Gibbons. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Thought
October.
2006 “War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe,” Comparative Political Studies
by Victoria Hui, Vol. 39, No. 6, 787-790
Articles under review
“The More War, The Less State: The Inverse Relationship between War, State Size, and “Stateness”
Working Papers
“Roving Judges from the Middle Ages to Modern Rebels: The Judicial Sinews of Political Rule,” with Ana Arjona
“Land Inequality and Political Institutions: A Revisionist View"
“How Much Capital, How Much Coercion? War and the Formation of the State”
"Urbanization: A Flawed Proxy For Capital?"
Rights: The False Promise of Security”
“Adam Smith and the Origins of the Myth of the Primacy of International Trade”
“The Democratic Peace as a Limiting Case of the Balance of Power”
Reports and Online Commentary
2015 Greek Crisis and Reforms, August 6 Foreign Affairs (full access here)
2015 Magna Carta and Taxation of the Rich, June 15 Washington Post Monkey Cage
2015 “Taxing the rich leads to representative government, June 17 LSE British Politics and Policy blog
2014 Symposium, Balancing in the Balance, December 17 International Studies Quarterly
2014 “Can taxing the wealthy strengthen democracy?,” August 18 Washington Post Monkey Cage
2014 “History Teaches That Taxing the Wealthy Gives Them a Stake in National Wellbeing” Scholars Strategy Network
2014 “Adam Smith is not the antidote to Thomas Piketty,” April 22 Washington Post Monkey Cage
2014 “Correcting market inequality,” 8 April Policy Network
2014 “Contrary to popular and academic belief, Adam Smith did not accept LSE British Politics and Policy Blog
inequality as a necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy,” 18 February