Research
I investigate the dynamic between emerging macroeconomic phenonemona and entrepreneurship at the micro level. My work emphasizes the role of expectations and agent knowledge which both promote high level economic coordination.
- Computation and Entrepreneurship
- Institutions
- Macroeconomics
- Book Reviews
Caton, James. (2019) “Creativity in a Theory of Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 8 (4). Walbert, Harold, Caton, James, and Norgaard, Julia. (2018). “Countries as Agents in a Global Scale Computational Model.” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 21 (3). Caton, James. (2017) “Entrepreneurship, Search Costs, and Ecological Rationality in an Agent-Based Economy.” Review of Austrian Economics 30.
Caton, James. (2020). "Moral Community and Moral Order: Developing Buchanan's Multilevel Social Contract Theory." Erasmus Journal for Economics and Philosophy. Caton, James and Lopez, Edward. (2020). “The Cognitive Dimension of Institutions.” in [Ed.] Marroquin, A. and Wenzel, N. A Companion to Douglass North Guatemala: Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Caton, James. "On V-form Firms: Governance, Cryptocurrency, and Internalization on the Blockchain." Sound Money Project Working Paper 2021-03. Caton, James. "An Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge: Knowledge’s Structure, Generation, Transmission and Significance to Social Theory."
Caton, James. "Language Games, Entrepreneurship, and Institutions." Rustici, Thomas. and Caton, James. The Market for Healing: How Entrepreneurs Improve the Lives of the Disabled. (Working Draft)
Harwick, Cameron and James Caton. (2020). “What's Holding Back Blockchain Finance? On the Possibility of Decentralized Autonomous Finance.” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, forthcoming. Caton, James. (2020) "The Evolution of Hayek's Thought on Gold and Monetary Standards." Southern Economic Journal 87 (1). Caton, James (2020). “Cryptoliquidity: The Blockchain and Monetary Stability.” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Forthcoming 9 (2). Caton, James. "Crisis and Credit Allocation: The Effect of Ideology on Monetary Policy During the Great Depression and Great Recession." Sound Money Project Working Paper 2021-02. Caton, James. "Status Functions, Speech Acts, and the Emergence of Money." Sound Money Project Working Paper 2019-15. The Monetary Foundations of the Macroeconomy. Ed., Rustici, Caton, Shamoun, and Shamoun. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2015. Macroeconomics: Past and Present. Ed., Rustici, Caton, Shamoun, and Shamoun. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2015. Caton, James. “Money in American History” in The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, ed., Robert Rycraft (2017). Caton, James and Richard Wagner. (2015). “Volatility in Catallactical Systems: Austrian Cycle Theory Revisited.” Advances in Austrian Economics: New Thinking in Austrian Political Economy 18.
Caton, James. Book Review: The Social Life of Money” EH.net. Caton, James. (2017). “Book Review: The Midas Curse” The Review of Austrian Economics. Caton, James. (2018). “Book Review: Hayek vs. Keynes: A Battle of Ideas” The Independent Review.
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