Publications by Adam Smith Fellows in 2025

In the year 2025, then-current Adam Smith Program Fellows had the following scholarly and popular works published or accepted for publication (program fellows are highlighted with boldface):

Christopher J. Coyne and Anna Claire Flowers. “The Family and the Stable Peace” with Christopher J. Coyne in the Review of Austrian Economics.

Anna Claire Flowers. “Regulation and Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Child Care Market” in the Review of Austrian Economics.

Anna Claire Flowers and Edward Timmons (October 13, 2025). "Universal Childcare: Real Problem, Wrong Solution."

Anna Claire Flowers and Edward Timmons. (August 7, 2025). "Opinion: Cut state regulations to make childcare cheaper." The Los Angeles Daily News.

Anna Claire Flowers. (July 22, 2025). "Pro-Family, Pro-Sports: Golf Champion Promotes the Joy of Marriage and Fatherhood." Institute for Family Studies Blog.

Anna Claire Flowers. (June 2, 2025). "Adam Smith on Relationships between Young and Old." Econlib.  

Art Carden, Anna Claire Flowers, and Ilia Murtazashvili. “Socialism,” in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice.

Patrick Fitzsimmons, Vincent Geloso, and Jacob Hall. "Did The Great Leveling Begin After 1921?". Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review.

Jordan Adamson and Patrick Fitzsimmons. “Peace and its correlates in the Ancient World". Published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Eugenio Garza. “This Was Never About Housing” and “A Forgotten Classical Liberal in Mexico.” Published by the Foundation for Economic Education.

Eugenio Garza. “‘Just’ Market Prices” for Kairos (Substack).

Max Laraia published the white paper “Voting With Your Feet: Finding Your Place to Go” with the group SatisCation.

Daniel B. Klein and Michaela Loughran. “Adam Smith’s Hopes for a Liberal America,” Economic Affairs, 15 May 2025.

Daniel B. Klein and Michaela Loughran. “Adam Smith’s Hopes for America, Part 1” (10 September 2025) and “Part 2” (17 September 2025), Adam Smith Works, Liberty Fund.

Brian Mandeville. “The Government-Robber Comparison: Two Intellectual Traditions Other Than Avowed Libertarians.” Forthcoming in Economic Affairs (Accepted November 2025).

Brian Mandeville. “The Robber and the Government: Differences and One Great Big Likeness.” Just Sentiments, hosted by Libertarianism.org, December 24, 2025.

Caleb Petitt. “Searching for the Highest Impartial Spectator: Using Michael Polanyi to Understand Smithian Moral Development.” Accepted at History of Economic Ideas.

Caleb Petitt. "Paul Seabright: The divine economy—how religions compete for wealth, power, and people." Public Choice, October 9, 2025. 

Caleb Petitt. "George Selgin: False Dawn—The New Deal and the Promise of Economic Recovery, 1933–1947." Independent Review, Fall, 2025.

Caleb Petitt. December 4, 2025. “Defending the Efficient Market Hypothesis,” Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. November 20, 2025. “Understanding America’s Trade with China,” The Unseen and The Unsaid.

Caleb Petitt. October 23, 2025. “'I, Sharpie' As Antidote to 'I, Pencil' Is Truly Ridiculous,” RealClearMarkets.

Caleb Petitt. September 19, 2025. “In Praise of Plasma-Donation System,” Inside Sources/DC Journal.

Caleb Petitt. August 26, 2025. “The Fiscal Consequences of Banning Compensation for Organ Donors,” National Review.

Caleb Petitt. August 22, 2025. "Oren Cass Can’t Keep His Story Straight About Manufacturing," Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. August 7, 2025. "Blaming the Messenger and the Politics of BLS Data," Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. August 1, 2025. "The Jones Act Arguably Cuts the U.S. Ship Fleet In Half," RealClearMarkets.

Caleb Petitt. July 31, 2025. "Adam Smith's Warnings about Exceptions to Free Trade," Adam Smith Works.

Caleb Petitt. July 30, 2025. "Against Maritime Subsidies," The Unseen and the Unsaid.

Caleb Petitt. July 30, 2025. “Trump’s Tariffs Could be in Trouble,” Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. July 24, 2025. “The Tides Turn for Trump’s Maritime Industrial Policy,” National Review.

Caleb Petitt. July 10, 2025. “Alienating South Korea and Japan Is a Strategic Blunder,” National Review.

Philip Magness and Caleb Petitt. July 10, 2025. “Independent Joins Amicus Brief on the Constitutionality of Presidential Tariff Orders,” Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. June 25, 2025. “Adam Smith and the Navigation Acts: A New Interpretation,” Libertarianism.org.

Caleb Petitt. June 24, 2025. “Institutional Investors Aren’t the Villains of America’s Housing Market,” National Review.

Caleb Petitt. June 18, 2025. “A Guide to American Tariffs in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. June 16, 2025. “Is the U.S. Shipbuilding Capacity in Crisis?,” The Unseen and The Unsaid.

Caleb Petitt. May 30, 2025. “Domestic Ship-Production Rule Hinders National Defense,” National Review.

Caleb Petitt. May 19, 2025. "Trump's Tariffs Are About Rent Extraction, Not Rent-Seeking,” National Review.

Caleb Petitt. May 9, 2025. “Does 'Strategic Uncertainty' Render Trump's Tariffs 'Strategic'?,” RealClearMarkets.

Caleb Petitt. May 7, 2025. “Wealth and Poverty for Christian Classical Liberals,” Kairos.

Caleb Petitt. April 29, 2025. “When Did the American Housing Affordability Crisis Begin?,” National Review.

Caleb Petitt. April 21, 2025. “Understanding the Potential Challenges of International Tax Harmonization and the Potential Benefits from Embracing Tax Competition,” Independent Institute.

Caleb Petitt. April 21, 2025. “What the American Colonies Teach us About Tax Competition,” The Unseen and The Unsaid.

Caleb Petitt. February 28, 2025. “From Clan to Social Grammar,” Just Sentiments.

Nicholas Swanson. Book review of Hannah’s Children by Catherine Pakaluk. “Motherhood in an Age of Childlessness,” 9 March 2025.

Daniel B. Klein, Nicholas Swanson, and Jeffrey Young. “The Impartial Spectator Rises,” Econ Journal Watch, September 2025.

Caleb Petitt and Tegan Truitt. “Searching for the Highest Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith, Michael Polanyi, and the Meno Paradox.” History of Economic Ideas. Forthcoming.

Nicholas Wilson. Booker T. Washington Versus W. E. B. Du Bois | Libertarianism.org.