I am an economist and researcher based in New York City, working as a consultant and serving as adjunct faculty at Columbia University and NYU. My work spans applied research, policy analysis, and teaching, with a focus on understanding how economic institutions shape economic outcomes.
I use this space to host my research, book projects, teaching materials, and experimental apps and tools.
- Digital History: Creating a data rich economic history of the end of Apartheid in South Africa (1969-1989).
- Budget Analysis: Developing a toy Fiscal Policy Calculator to model the impacts of tax and spending changes on the budget and individual tax burdens (in the US).
- Policy mapping: Analyzing South African budgetary reports in my brrr_recs repository to understand the policy landscape.
- Writing: Drafting textbooks on Economic Coercion, The American Economy, among a dozen others.
NYU Wagner: Economics of International Development, Public Economics, Urban Economics, Labor Policy
Columbia SIPA: Understanding Emerging Technologies
University of Johannesburg CCRED: Competition Policy Research Methods