James Caton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Bio
James Caton is a scholar at the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth with the Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise and an assistant professor of economics in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics at North Dakota State University. He teaches undergraduate courses on macroeconomics, international trade, and computation. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, agent-based computational economics, market process theory, and monetary economics. He has published in academic journals such as Southern Economic Journal, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, and Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. He co-edited Macroeconomics, a two volume set of essays and primary sources that represent the core of macroeconomic thought. He is also a regular contributor to the American Institute for Economic Research's Sound Money Project, which conducts research and promotes awareness about monetary stability and financial privacy.
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University
- M.A., Economics, San Jose State University
- B.A., History, Humboldt State University
Expertise
- Macroeconomics
- Entrepreneurship
- Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- Monetary economics
- Computational economics
- Institutions
Recent Research
| Journal article | The Evolution of Hayek’s Thought on Gold and Monetary Standards |
| Journal article | What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance? On the Possibility of Decentralized Autonomous Finance |
| Journal article | Moral Community and Moral Order: Developing Buchanan’s Multilevel Social Contract Theory |
| Journal article | Cryptoliquidity: The Blockchain and Monetary Stability |
| Journal article | Creativity in a Theory of Entrepreneurship |
Recent Media
| Blog Contributor | Sound Money Project |
| Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness | Crypto Ads and Inflation |
| Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness | Bitcoin and Blockchain 101 |
| Freedom Adventure Podcast | National Debt Nightmare |
| The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead | What is Blockchain? |