Hello world! Welcome to my personal website. I’m a political economy and public policy specialist whose research deals with governance surrounding innovation, productivity, distribution and trade. I hold a PhD from the University of Toronto, where I examined Canadian industrial policy through a comparative lens. From 2020 to 2021, I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where I analyzed international knowledge flows based on patent text using natural language processing. I am currently a Research Advisor at Employment and Social Development Canada, an Assistant Professor (Status Only) at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and Lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. I am also the Principal Investigator of the Canadian Agendas Project. Please check out my CV, research items and teaching materials. Feel free to get in touch via e-mail, or connect on ResearchGate, LinkedIn or Twitter.

Currently (re)reading
Acemoglu, Daron & Simon Johnson (2023) Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity. Public Affairs.

Fasteau, Marc & Ian Fletcher (2024) Industrial policy for the United States: winning the competition for good jobs and high-value industries. Cambridge University Press.

Fairfield, Tasha & Andrew Charman (2022) Social inquiry and Bayesian inference: rethinking qualitative research. Cambridge University Press.

Rogers, Everett (2003) Diffusion of innovations, 5th edition. Free Press.

Freeman, Chris & Francisco Louca (2001) As time goes by: from industrial revolutions to the information revolution. Oxford University Press.

Langlois, Richard & Paul Robertson (1995) Firms, markets and economic change: a dynamic theory of business institutions. Routledge.

Chesbrough, Henry (2003) Open innovation: the new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. Harvard Business School Press.

Beach, Derek & Rasmus Pedersen (2016) Causal case study methods: foundations and guidelines for comparing, matching, and tracing. University of Michigan Press.

Jahn, Detlef (2016) The politics of environmental performance: institutions and preferences in industrialized democracies. Cambridge University Press.

Coleman, James (1990) Foundations of social theory. Harvard University Press.

Sen, Amartya (1999) Development as freedom. Oxford University Press.

Katzenstein, Peter (1985) Small states in world markets: industrial policy in Europe. Cornell University Press.

Katzenstein, Peter (1984) Corporatism and change: Austria, Switzerland, and the politics of industry. Cornell University Press.

Knight, Frank (1921) Uncertainty, risk and profit. Houghton Mifflin.

Nelson, Richard & Sidney Winter (1982) An evolutionary theory of economic change. Belknap Press.

Arthur, Brian (1994) Increasing returns and path dependence in the economy. University of Michigan Press.

Harris, Richard (1985) Trade, industrial policy and international competition. University of Toronto Press.

Graham, Otis (1992) Losing time: the industrial policy debate. Harvard University Press.

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Chandler, Alfred (2005) Shaping the industrial century. Harvard.

Perez, Carlota (2002) Technological revolutions and financial capital. Edward Elgar.

Mazzucato, Mariana (2013) The entrepreneurial state. Public Affairs.

Vicente, Jerome (2018) Economics of clusters: a brief history of cluster theories and policy. Springer.

Saxenian, Anna Lee (2006) The new argonauts. Harvard University Press.

Miller, Gary & Andrew Whitford (2016) Above politics: bureacratic discretion and credible commitment. Cambridge.

Kaplinsky, Rafael (2011) Sustainable futures. Polity.

Swilling, Mark (2019) The age of sustainability: just transitions in a complex world. Routledge.

Mason, Paul (2015) Post-capitalism. ‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Smith Hughes, Sally (2011) Genentech: the beginnings of biotech. Chicago.

Aghion, Phillippe et al. (2021) The power of creative destruction: economic upheaval and the wealth of nations. Harvard.

Breznitz, Dan (2021) Innovation in real places: strategies for prosperity in an unforgiving world. Oxford.

Saxenian, Anna Lee (1996) Regional advantage: culture and competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Harvard.

Jones, Michael & Marianna Mazzucato (eds.) (2016) Rethinking capitalism: economics and policy for sustainable and inclusive growth. Wiley.

Aghion, Philippe & Peter Howitt (1998) Endogenous growth theory. MIT.

Dixit, Avinash, Susan Skeath & David Reiley (2015) Games of strategy, 4^th edition. W.W. Norton.

Herrmann, Andrea (2008) One political economy, one competitive strategy? Comparing pharmaceutical firms in Germany, Italy, and the UK. Oxford.

Trebilcock, Michael (2014) Dealing with losers: the political economy of policy transitions. Oxford.

Kaplan, Sarah & Richard Foster (2001) Creative destruction: why companies that are built to last underperform the market, and how to successfully transform them. Doubleday.

Teece, David (2009) Dynamic capabilities and strategic management: organizing for innovation and growth. Oxford.

Ragin, Charles (2008) Redesigning social inquiry. Chicago.

Ragin, Charles (2000) Fuzzy set social science. Chicago.

Milgrom, Paul & John Roberts (1992) Economics, organization and management. Prentice Hall.

Sen, Amartya (2018) Collective choice and social welfare: an expanded edition Harvard.

Phillips, Peter (2007) Governing transformative technological innovation: who's in charge? Edward Elgar.

Langlois, Richard (2007) The dynamics of industrial capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the new economy. Routledge.

Aligică, Paul (2014) Institutional diversity and political economy: the Ostroms and beyond. Oxford.

Ostrom, Elinor (2005) Understanding institutional diversity. Princeton.

Miller, Gary (1992) Managerial dilemmas: the political economy of hierarchy. Cambridge.

Block, Fred & Matthew Keller (eds.) (2011) State of innovation: the U.S. Government's role in technology development. Paradigm.

Williamson, Oliver (1985) The economic institutions of capitalism. Free Press.

Buchanan, James & Gordon Tullock (1962) The calculus of consent: logical foundations of constitutional democracy. Michigan.

Scharpf, Fritz (1997) Games real actors play: actor-centered institutionalism in policy research. Westview.

Jones, Bryan D & Lynne Bachelor (1993) The sustaining hand: community leadership and corporate power, 2^nd edition. University Press of Kansas.