James Caton

North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics

Assistant Professor

Fargo, ND 58105

United States

American Institute for Economic Research

PO Box 1000

Great Barrington, MA 01230

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North Dakota State University - NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise

811 2nd Ave N.

Fargo, ND 58102

United States

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What's Holding Back Blockchain Finance? On the Possibility of Decentralized Autonomous Finance

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 84: 420-429 (2022)., AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019–06, NDSU Public Choice and Private Enterprise Research Paper, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 May 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2022
Cameron Harwick and James Caton
SUNY College at Brockport and North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Banking, Blockchain, Financial Intermediation, Decentralized Organizations

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The Evolution of Hayek's Thought on Gold and Monetary Standards

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-06
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Hayek, Hawtrey, Cassel, Gold Standard, Monetary Theory,, Great Depression, Central Banking

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Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, and the Evolution of Exchange: A Transaction Costs Approach

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-14
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jul 2021
James Caton and Cameron Harwick
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and SUNY College at Brockport
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Banking, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Intermediation, Decentralized Organizations

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Creativity in a Theory of Entrepreneurship

NDSU Public Choice and Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 18-3
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2019
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Entrepreneurship, Agent-based Computational Economics, Schumpeter, Kirzner

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Volatility in Catallactical Systems: Austrian Cycle Theory Revisited

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 14-15
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jun 2014
James Caton and Richard E. Wagner
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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ecology of plans; natural volatility; induced volatility; Austrian cycle theory; non-equilibrium theory; kaleidic analysis; undecidability and choice; algorithmic choice theory; entrepreneurship

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The Cognitive Dimension of Institutions

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 Aug 2018
James Caton and Edward J. Lopez
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and Western Carolina University
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Economic Methodology, Analysis of Collective Decision-Making, Search, Learning, Information and Knowledge, Communication, Belief, Unawareness

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Cryptoliquidity: The Blockchain and Monetary Stability

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-15
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jul 2018
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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blockchain, cryptocurrency, endogenous money, liquidity, disequilibrium

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Rent Seeking and Institutional Evolution within the California Water Game

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Rent Seeking and Institutional Evolution within the California Water Game

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-12
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 May 2016
James Caton and Richard E. Wagner
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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water rights; riparian systems; appropriative systems; rent seeking; Big Players; overlapping jurisdictions; political tectonics

Rent Seeking and Institutional Evolution within the California Water Game

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-07
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 May 2021
James Caton and Richard E. Wagner
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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water rights; riparian systems; appropriative systems; rent seeking; Big Players; overlapping jurisdictions; political tectonics

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Mapping the Federal Reserve's Reaction Function with Directed Acyclic Graphs

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-15
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2021
James Caton and Proma Gupta
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Monetary Policy, Great Recession, Central Banking, Credit

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On V-form Firms: Governance, Cryptocurrency, and Internalization on the Blockchain

AIER Sound Money Project, Working Paper No. 2021-03
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Dec 2020
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Blockchain, Firms, Cryptocurrency, Organization, Institutions, Internalization

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Status Functions, Speech Acts, and the Emergence of Money

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019–15
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2020
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Money, Emergence, Social Ontology, Status Function

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A Cognitive Framework for the Social Sciences

NDSU Public Choice and Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 18-5
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Nov 2018
James Caton and Edward J. Lopez
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and Western Carolina University
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Prairie Prosperity: An Economic Guide for the State of North Dakota

Mercatus Research Paper
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 27 Nov 2018
Jeremy Jackson, James Caton, Raheem Williams and Kali Christianson
North Dakota State University - NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise, North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University - NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise and NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise
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North Dakota, tax policy, education, transportation, pensions, budget stabilization, revenue, expenditure, entrepreneurship, economic freedom

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The Entangled Mind

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Mar 2022
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Entangled political economy, cognitive institutions, shared mental models, non-market coordination

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Crisis and Credit Allocation: The Effect of Ideology on Monetary Policy during the Great Depression and the Great Recession

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-02
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Dec 2020
James Caton
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Monetary Theory, Great Depression, Central Banking, Credit