I am the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at TTU's Free Market Institute, and an associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise.  Additionally, I hold fellowships with the American Institute for Economic Research and the Independent Institute.

I have authored or coauthored four books: The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West (University of Michigan Press, 2023), The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (Catholic University of America Press, 2023), The Spirit of '76: Libertarianism and American Renewal (American Institute for Economic Research, 2023), and Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions ​(Cambridge University Press, 2021).