Il est considéré comme un libertarien, de par ses nombreuses prises de position[3]. Il a notamment critiqué la thèse de William Baumol sur l'économie du spectacle vivant dans un article de 1996 intitulé "Why I do not believe in the Cost-Disease" (Journal of Cultural Economics n°20, 1996, p. 207-214).
Publications
Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination (2 ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 1991. (ISBN978-1560005704).
Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives, Psychology Press. 1998. (ISBN9780415169196).
In Praise of Commercial Culture, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2000. (ISBN978-0674001886).
What Price Fame?, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2002. (ISBN978-0674008090).
Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006. (ISBN978-0691120423).
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist, Dutton Adult. 2007. (ISBN978-0525950257).
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World, Dutton Adult. 2009. (ISBN0525951237).
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, Dutton Adult. 2011. (ISBN978-0525952718).
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, New York, NY: Dutton Adult. 2012. (ISBN978-0525952664).
Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation, Dutton Adult. 2013. p. 304. (ISBN978-0-5259-5373-9).
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream. New York, NY : St. Martins Press. 2017. (ISBN1250108691).
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals. Stripe Press. 2018. (ISBN978-1732265134)
Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019. (ISBN978-1250110541).
avec Daniel Gross, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. (ISBN978-1250275813).