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André Quintas

George Mason University

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Crony Capitalism, Populism, and Democracy

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 26-12
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Nov 2025 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2025
André Quintas, Peter J. Boettke and Peter J. Boettke
George Mason University and George Mason University - Department of EconomicsMercatus Center at George Mason University
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Capitalism, Democracy, Political Capitalism, Cronyism, Populism

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Ways of Seeing the World: Legibility in Alternative Institutional Settings

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 25-17
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 May 2025 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2025
Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman and André Quintas
George Mason University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University
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high modernism, legibility, markets, mētis, techne, political capitalism, James Scott

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Competing Visions of Cronyism within the Virginia School of Political Economy

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 25-16
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2025
André Quintas, Peter J. Boettke and Peter J. Boettke
George Mason University and George Mason University - Department of EconomicsMercatus Center at George Mason University
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Capitalism, Political Capitalism, Cronyism, Entangled Political Economy, Richard Wagner, Randall Holcombe

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Populism, the Illusion of Participation, and the Hope of Self Governance

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 25-01
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2025
Christopher J. Coyne and André Quintas
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University
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D71, D72, political capitalism, populism, public choice, self-governance, social choice, economic fascism

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"Trust Me, I Am Not Like Them": Political Signaling In A Credibility Crisis

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Jun 2025
André Quintas and Erwin Dekker
George Mason University and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Political Competition, Signaling, Repugnance, Product differentiation, Polarization, Populism D22, L14, L25, Z13

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The evolving concept of rationality in the work of Ludwig von Mises

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Jun 2025
André Quintas and Erwin Dekker
George Mason University and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Ludwig von Mises, Rationality, Praxeology, Socialist calculation debate, Capitalism B13, B25, B53, P21

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The Political Economy of Central Bank Digital Currencies and Monetary Policy

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Aug 2025
André Quintas and Francisco Nunes-Pereira
George Mason University and Universidade do Porto - CEF.UP - Center for Economics and Finance at UP
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Central Bank Digital Currencies, Political Economy, Central Banking, Knowledge Incentives JEL Codes: E02 E42 E50 D70 P00

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In Search for Open Democracy: Don Lavoie and the Remaking of Twenty-First Century Liberalism

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Apr 2026
André Quintas and Mikayla Novak
George Mason University and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Democracy, Don Lavoie, Liberalism, Openness, Populism

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State Capacity, State Capture, and Political Capitalism: The Case of the Military-Industrial Complex

GMU Working Paper in Economics 26-05
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Mar 2026
André Quintas and Christopher J. Coyne
George Mason University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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state capacity, state capture, political capitalism, military-industrial complex, public choice

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"Politics as conflict": a neglected branch of the Virginia school of Political Economy

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Jun 2025
André Quintas
George Mason University
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Virginia school of Political Economy, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Politics as exchange, Politics as conflict P16, D70, B31, B20

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Am I a good puppet? A review essay of Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy

The Review of Austrian Economics, volume 37, issue 2, 2024[10.1007/s11138-024-00645-3]
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Feb 2025
André Quintas
George Mason University
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Behavioral economics, Rationality, Methodology, Subjectivism, Homo economicus, Libertarian paternalism JEL Code B41, B53, D03, D83,

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Martin Wolf: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Penguin Press

Public Choice, volume 196, issue 1-2, 2023[10.1007/s11127-023-01057-w]
Posted: 21 Apr 2025
André Quintas
George Mason University

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