Thomas J. Hughes

Research

Journal Articles

• “Bureaucratic Control After Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo: The Rise of Judicial Control in a Post-Chevron Deference World.” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice.

Under Review

• “The Budget-Maximizing Peacemaker: The Success Paradox of Peace-Through-Strength Defense Policy.” Under review at Public Choice.
• “The Weapon Itself is the Threat: Nuclear Weapons, the Knowledge Problem, and Normal Accidents.” With Christopher J. Coyne (George Mason University). Under review at Cosmos + Taxis.

Working Papers

• “Does Government-Nonprofit Contracting Instantiate Democratic Priority-Setting?” With Brian W. Mandeville III (George Mason University).

Works in Progress

Papers

• “Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Single-Dimensional Computational Spatial Voting Models.” With Robi Ragan (Mercer University).
• “Doctoral Failure: A Subjectivist Model of Exploitative Medical Behavior under Moral Constraints.”
• “When Truth Can Be Bad for Business: A Theory of Expert Failure in Religious Leadership.” With Roger Koppl (Syracuse University).
• “William Niskanen and the Economics of Bureaucracy: Theory, Influence, and Policy Legacy.”

Books & Monographs

• The Machinery of Administration: Bureaucracy in Mainline Economics — co-authored with Christopher J. Coyne.