Reading paths

Notes (developing)

Historical institutions, formal models, evidence, and proof.

Selected HTML notes from my coursework, ordered by question and intellectual tradition. These are study materials, not publications.

Historical political economy · PHDBA 279PD

Empire of Cotton: coercion and production ↗

Detailed reading notes on Beckert, chapters 1–6, with an argument map and critical questions.

Formal political economy · POLSCI 232B

A detailed note on Gehlbach's Political Agency chapter, organized by model and mechanism.

Evidence and inference · ECON 141

An HTML study guide moving from probability and conditioning to estimation, inference, and comparison.

Mathematical foundations · MATH 104

A connected map of definitions, results, and proof dependencies.

Fall 2026: PHDBA 279PD, POLSCI 232B, ECON 141, and MATH 104. Each appears above at the point where it contributes to this reading path.

How do institutions shape what people can observe and how they attribute the results of collective work?

Can expressing different forms of value in monetary terms change what people come to value?