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home		 Democratic Legitimacy - The paper of which I'm most proud, an analysis of how Russia's invasion in 1999 of Chechnya affects the legitimacy of its nascent democracy.  This is a scanned version of the submitted copy, with one or two egregious typos, and with the grade and comment from the professor for whom I wrote it, Dr. Richard Deeg, of Temple University.

Veblen's Words Weighed - Winner of the Gockerman award for outstanding paper in economics, this essay examines one of the most abstruse and beautiful sentences in all of economics.

Federal Reserve Exercise - Analysis of Federal Reserve's response to economic conditions from 1989-1993.

Ricardian Victory - An analysis of Keynes' claim that Ricardian economics won a complete victory over the field for over a hundred years, and an analysis of Keynes' proposed reasons for this victory.

Peace Keeping in Darfur - Analysis of conditions required for successful peace keeping operation in Darfur