Exploring Intellectual & Business History 

I am currently a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in the Department of History where I research the history of law, capitalism and economic thought.

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Blog: Why We Need To Re-think Friedman’s Ideas About Monopolies

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How did Milton Friedman read his Adam Smith? This brief blog at ProMarket describes research related to my project on the history of business interests and liberal thought.

Blog: Smuggling and the Long History of Tax Havens

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Discover the early modern offshore network of smugglers and tax dodgers recently posted at Past & Present's blog.

Talk: Early Common Law Corporate Ideas and the Case of Sutton's Hospital

May 21, 2021

By examining the manuscript reports of one of the earliest, still-cited common law cases in corporate law, this talk investigates the development of corporate theory before the nineteenth-century fission into for and non-profits

New Article: Fair Competition and Smuggling

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Was it one of the biggest frauds in UK history? Or maybe it was all legal: the scheme starts with an ad for French brandy and reveals the secret world of early modern smuggling and business frauds. visit  

New Article: Can Moral Ideas Change Business?

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My new article explores how moral ideas during the 1840s and 1850s reshaped business organization in England visit