Linguistic Intervention Unlocks the Economic Gains of Diversity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 (43) e2534825123, October 2026, with Sheen S. Levine and Simon Siegenthaler.
Sympathy with Resentment: Willingness to Report Criminal Behavior Depends on the Punishment
Public Choice, 202 (3-4), March 2025, with Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler, and Vernon Smith.
No Mere Tautology: The Division of Labour is Limited by the Division of Labour
Oxford Economic Papers, 73(1), January 2021, with Andrew Smyth.
Experimental Tests of the Tolerated Theft and Risk-Reduction Theories of Resource Exchange
Nature Human Behaviour, 2(6), June 2018, with Hillard S. Kaplan, Eric Schniter, and Vernon L. Smith.
Language and Cooperation in Hominin Scavenging
Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(3), May 2017, with Samuel R. Harris
* A video demonstration of the software is also available here
Violence, Access, and Competition in the Market for Protection
European Journal of Political Economy, 29(1), March 2013, with Douglas B. Rogers and Adam C. Smith.
*Lead article
Risk and the Evolution of Human Exchange
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 270(1740), 7 August 2012, with Hillard Kaplan, Eric Schniter, and Vernon L. Smith.
The Primacy of Entrepreneurs in Exploiting Long-Distance Exchange
Managerial and Decision Economics, 33(5), July-September 2012, with Erik O. Kimbrough.
Anarchy, Groups, and Conflict: An Experiment on the Emergence of Protective Associations
Social Choice and Welfare, 38(2), February 2012, with Adam C. Smith and David B. Skarbek.
Geography and Social Networks in Nascent Distal Exchange
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 167(3), September 2011, with Erik O. Kimbrough.
* Lead article
Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process
Economic Journal, 119, July 2009, with Sean Crockett and Vernon L. Smith.
Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange in Long-distance Trade
American Economic Review, 98(3), June 2008, with Erik O. Kimbrough and Vernon L. Smith.
* An appendix summarizing each economy is available here
An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66(3), June 2008, with Benjamin Powell.
Building a Market: From Personal to Impersonal Exchange
In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, P. Zak (ed.), Princeton U Press, 2008, with Erik Kimbrough and Vernon L. Smith.