Exploring Legal & Business History
I am currently a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in the Department of History where I research the history of human cooperation through the study of law, capitalism, moral economy and business organisation.
New Research and Presentations
New Game on 18thc Smuggling
I thought I would use LLMs to see if they could create an educational game based on my research. Check out the proof-of-concept.
High Tariffs = Smuggling = the Offshore World
I recently wrote for ProMarket about how early modern smuggling stimulated a network of tax evasion through offshore havens. For some modern parallels have a read of A Tale of Tariffs and the Making of the Modern Offshore Market.
The Intellectual History of Milton Friedman's Criticism of Corporate Social Responsibility
My article on the intellectual origins of Milton Friedman's famous criticism of corporate social responsibility and monopoly is now available at Modern Intellectual History
Smuggling Database
Explore the early modern smugglers' world and visit my database on smuggling prosecutions