I’m an economist interested in the coming transition to an AI-powered economy. I seek to clarify the disagreement between those who believe “this changes everything”(tm) like electrification, and “this changes everything”(tm) like the rise of homo sapiens.

I would also like to move us toward policies that can best manage whatever transition faces us.

My economic research was focused on macroeconomic theory. My dissertation included two advances for modeling central banks:

1. Solving models where the central bank has the ability to commit, and its policy decisions inform agents about the state of the economy
2. Developing an intermediate form of commitment between discretion (no control over future actions), and commitment (complete control over future actions)

I also co-authored a work about the history and future of Bitcoin.

Before my PhD, I graduated from law school, where I focused on Law and Economics, and how law and technology interact. And before law school, I worked as a software engineer for six years.