# Notes

A reading path through historical institutions, formal models, evidence, and mathematical foundations. Study notes and open questions, not publications.

1. [Empire of Cotton: coercion and production](/notes/html/economic-history/) — PHDBA 279PD: Detailed reading notes on Beckert, chapters 1–6, with an argument map and critical questions.
2. [Political Agency: selection and incentives](/notes/html/formal-models/) — POLSCI 232B: A detailed note on Gehlbach's Political Agency chapter, organized by model and mechanism.
3. [Probability, inference, and causal comparison](/notes/html/inference/) — ECON 141: An HTML study guide moving from probability and conditioning to estimation, inference, and comparison.
4. [Real analysis knowledge map](/notes/html/real-analysis/) — MATH 104: A connected map of definitions, results, and proof dependencies.

## Current coursework
PHDBA 279PD; POLSCI 232B; ECON 141; MATH 104.

## Questions still in progress
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?

Content updated: 2026-09-26.