Solomon Stein

- Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Senior Research Fellow
Solomon Stein is a Senior Fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and Senior Research Fellow. He received his PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 2015, and is an alumnus of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship program. His work focuses on the history of economic thought, particularly the development of the contemporary market process tradition. Along with this work, he is also involved in assisting the George Mason University Library's Special Collections and Archives in collecting the papers of James M. Buchanan.
Publications & Appearances
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They Never Walked Alone
The purpose of this paper is to study the organization of inquiry at two centers that played a crucial role in the creation
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The Origins of Money in Diablo II
Diablo II is a noteworthy game for a variety of reasons: it was a tremendous commercial success, one of the bestselling titles
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The market as foreground
Markets as objects of study in their own right have been given surprisingly little attention within neoclassical economics. The
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Hayek's Tensions
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The Market as an Economic Process
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Reconsidering Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Since its publication in 1905, Max Weber’s seminal treatise has been both championed as perceptive sociological analysis and
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Diagnosing the Electorate
Reading James Buchanan’s 2005 essay “ Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum” is profoundly depressing. Buchanan envisions
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Max Weber on the Market's Impersonality and Ethic
Market exchange is often depicted as devoid of traditional feelings of community, and perhaps as being destructive of those
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Buchanan's Tensions
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Why Methodology Matters: Reflections on Bruce Caldwell's "Beyond Positivism"
When Beyond Positivism was published 35 years ago, it presented a compelling case for methodological change in the economics