I am an Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist at the U.S. Copyright Office, where I study copyright’s economic impacts and make data on copyright registrations more accessible to researchers.
Before this, I spent about a decade teaching economics, most recently as Associate Professor of Economics at Hood College. My course materials and other software tools are freely available and I now write for a general audience on Substack.
I consider myself a lifelong learner and tinkerer. My own research projects explore the political economy of innovation and economic growth, from 17th century English institutions to generative AI using frameworks like new institutional economics, public choice, market process economics, and computational models.