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Social Diversity, Polycentric Political Economy and Modus Vivendi
How do very different people learn to live, work, and govern together? This volume brings polycentric political economy together with the philosophy of modus vivendi — live and let live — to ask how societies marked by deep difference can hold. Open access from Edward Elgar.
Simple Rules for Sustainability
What rules actually sustain shared resources? Building on the Bloomington School, this book argues that simple, self-governing rules — not grand designs — are what keep commons alive, drawing on cases from across the developing world.
Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan
Land is the most valuable asset most Afghans will ever hold — and the thing wars are fought over. This book traces how property institutions shape political order, and why getting land governance right matters more to peace than most state-builders ever understood.
Austrian, Public Choice, and Institutional Economics Perspectives
A Cambridge Element that puts three traditions of political economy in conversation to explain where property rights come from — and what happens when they fail.
Based on years of fieldwork across Afghan villages, this book shows how customary authority — maliks, shuras, and jirgas — governs everyday life, and why external state-builders ignore that order at their peril.
Best Book Award in Social Sciences, Central Eurasian Studies Society (2018) · Honorable Mention, International Studies Association Global Development Section Book Prize (2017)
Special issue: The Political Economy of the War in Ukraine. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 39(1). Guest edited with Tymofii Brik, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and Ilia Murtazashvili.