Per L. Bylund, Ph.D.
School of Entrepreneurship
Spears School of Business
Oklahoma State University
424 Business Building
Stillwater, OK 74078-4011
Per.Bylund@okstate.edu
Positions
Associate Professor, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University. 2021- (Assistant Professor 2015-2021.)
Johnny D. Pope Chair, 2022-
Records-Johnston Professorship, 2015-2020
Previous Positions
John F. Baugh Center Research Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. 2013-2015
Adjunct Professor, Management Department, Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri. 2012-2013.
Postdoctoral research fellow in economics and entrepreneurship, Mises Institute. 2012.
Education
Ph.D., Applied Economics; University of Missouri, July 2012. Dissertation Title: “Specialization and the Firm.” Advisor: Peter G. Klein.
M.A., Political Science. Lund University, Sweden, June 2005. Thesis title: “Man and Matter: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Justification of Ownership in Land from the Basis of Self-Ownership.” (Published.) Advisor: Mats Sjölin.
M.S., Informatics. Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, June 1999. Thesis title: “Micro Payments on the Internet: Criteria for Micro Payment Systems.” (Won BEST scholarship.) Advisor: Carita Åbom.
B.Sc., Business Administration. Jönköping International Business School, March 1998. Thesis title: “Timeliness in Financial Reporting: A Case Study of Two Manufacturing Companies Listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.” Advisor: Carita Åbom. (Majors: corporate finance, accounting).
Books
Bylund PL. 2022. How to Think about the Economy: A Primer. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute.
Bylund PL. 2016. The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
Bylund PL. 2015. The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Edited Books
Bylund PL (ed). 2022. A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bylund PL, Howden D (eds). 2015. The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joseph T. Salerno. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute.
Research
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Bylund PL, Malone T. In Press. “Understanding the Role of Perceptions in Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Experiment.” Entrepreneurship Research Journal.
Arteaga-Fonseca J, Zhang Y, Bylund PL. 2023. “The entrepreneurial cognitive adjustment mechanism: transitional entrepreneurship as a solution to mitigate illegal migration.” New England Journal of Entrepreneurship. 26(2): 172-195.
Bylund PL. 2023. “Is It Money because It Is Redeemed as Tax Payments? A Response to Kelton and Wray.” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. 25(4): 147-165. [Won the 2024 Fertig Award.]
Brown L, Bylund PL. 2023. “Where do Stakeholders Come From? Entrepreneurial Choice as the Genesis of Stakeholder Emergence.” Academy of Management Review. 48(2): 357-360.
Bylund PL, Packard MD, Rapp DJ. 2023. “From Static to Processual Analysis: How Insights from Austrian Economics Can Advance Research on Public Policy and Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. 12(1): 32-48.
Bylund, PL. 2023. “Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Issue.” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. 12(1): 6-9.
Bylund PL, Malone T. 2022. “Understanding the Role of Perceptions in Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Experiment.” 2022 Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, BCERC Proceedings. 173.
Phillips D, Bylund PL, Rutherford MW, Moore C. 2022. “Cryptocurrency Legitimation Through Rhetorical Strategies: An Institutional Entrepreneurship Approach.” Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. 35(1-2): 187-208.
Bylund PL, Packard MD. 2022. “Back to the Future: Can Counterhistory Accelerate Theoretical Advancement in Management?” Academy of Management Perspectives. 36(2): 801-819.
Bylund PL, Lingle C, Packard MD. 2022. “Politicised Revisionism: Comment on Lopes (2021).” Cambridge Journal of Economics. 46(3): 609–612. [SSRN]
Bylund PL, Packard MD. 2022. “Subjective Value in Entrepreneurship.” Small Business Economics. 58: 1243–1260. [SSRN]
Packard MD, Bylund PL, Klein PG. 2021. “Human Action and Human Design: An Austrian Approach to Design Science.” Journal of Business Venturing Design. 1(1-2): 100003.
Bylund PL. 2021. “Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.” Journal of Institutional Economics 17(6): 877-881.
Hudik M, Bylund PL. 2021. “Let’s do it Frank’s way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship.” Journal of Institutional Economics 17(6): 943-958.
Nabisaalu JK, Bylund PL. 2021. “Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies.” Journal of Institutional Economics. 17(6): 989-1003.
Packard MD, Bylund PL. 2021. “From Homo Economicus to Homo Agens: Toward a Subjective Rationality for Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Venturing, 36(6): 106159.
Bylund PL. 2021. “The Austrian Free Enterprise Ethic: A Mengerian Comment on Kirzner (2019).” Review of Austrian Economics, 34(4): 495-501. [SSRN]
Packard MD, Bylund PL, Clark BD. 2021. “Keynes and Knight on Uncertainty: Peas in a Pod or Chalk and Cheese?” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 45(5), 1099-1125. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2021. “Understanding the Limits of Pure Theory in Economics: Knight and Mises.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 39C: 3-18. (Symposium lead article.)
Bylund PL. 2021. “The Firm vs. the Market: Dehomogenizing the Transaction Cost Theories of Coase and Williamson.” Strategic Management Review, 2(1): 79-118. [SSRN]
Bylund PL, Packard MD. 2021. “Separation of Power and Expertise: Evidence of the Tyranny of Experts in Sweden’s COVID-19 Responses.” Southern Economic Journal, 87(4): 1300-1319. [SSRN]
Bradley SW, Bylund PL. 2020. “Testing Theories of Entrepreneurial Opportunity: An Agent Based Model of Economic Growth.” 2020 Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, BCERC Proceedings. 54.
Bylund PL. 2020. “Finding the Entrepreneur-Promoter: A Praxeological Inquiry.” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 23(3-4): 355-389.
Bylund PL. 2020. “Introduction to the Special Issue.” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 23(3-4): 255-264.
Bylund PL. 2019. “Entrepreneurship and Austrian Economics: Theory, History, and Future.” MISES Journal 7(3): 517-521.
Hastings H, D’Andrea FMAC, Bylund PL. 2019. “Towards A Value-Dominant Logic of Marketing.” MISES Journal 7(3): 577-598.
Bylund PL. 2019. “Where is the Austrian Theory of Collaborative Orders? Comment on Elert and Henrekson.” Review of Austrian Economics 32(4): 339-347.
Malone T, Koumpias A, Bylund PL. 2019. “Entrepreneurial Response to Interstate Regulatory Competition: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment.” Journal of Regulatory Economics 55(2): 172-192.
Brown L, Packard MD, Bylund PL. 2018. “Judgment, Fast and Slow: Toward a Judgment View of Entrepreneurs’ Impulsivity.” Journal of Business Venturing Insights 10.
Packard M, Bylund PL. 2018. “On the Relationship of Inequality and Entrepreneurship.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 12(1): 3-22.
Trost SM, Bylund PL. 2017. “Quantifying Entrepreneurial Identity and Functional-Rold Heterogeneity.” 2017 Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, BCERC Proceedings. 103.
Bylund PL, Manish GP. 2017. “Private Property and Economic Calculation: A Reply to Andy Denis.” Review of Political Economy 29(3): 414-431.
Bylund PL, McCaffrey M. 2017. “A Theory of Entrepreneurship and Institutional Uncertainty.” Journal of Business Venturing 32(5): 461-475.
Bylund PL, Manish GP. 2016. “The Mises-Knight Theory of Uncertainty and its Implications for Entrepreneurship, Equilibrium and the Theory of the Firm.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 34B: 305-336.
Wood MS, Bylund PL, Bradley, SW. 2016. “The Influence of Tax and Regulatory Policies on Entrepreneurs’ Opportunity Evaluation Decisions.” Management Decision 54(5): 1160-1182.
Bylund PL. 2015. “Explaining Firm Emergence: Specialization, Transaction Costs, and the Integration Process.” Managerial and Decision Economics 36(4): 221-238. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2015. “Signifying Williamson’s Contribution to the Transaction Cost Approach: An Agent-Based Simulation of Coasean Transaction Costs and Specialization.” Journal of Management Studies 52(1): 148-174. [SSRN]
Klein PG, Bylund PL. 2014. “The Place of Austrian Economics in Contemporary Entrepreneurship Research.” Review of Austrian Economics 27(3): 259-279. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2014. “Ronald Coase’s ‘Nature of the Firm’ and the Argument for Economic Planning.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 36(3): 305-329. [SSRN] [Won the 2015 Fertig Award.]
Bylund PL. 2011. “Division of Labor and the Firm: An Austrian Attempt at Explaining the Firm in the Market.” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 14(2): 188-215. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2010. “Piracy, Inc.: On the Bearing of the Firm Analogy to Pirate Organization.” Review of Austrian Economics 23(3): 299-305. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2008. “Unblocking a Free Market Perspective in Labor Economics.” Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics X(2): 236-247. [SSRN]
Bylund PL, Klein PG, McCaffrey M. 2024. “Entrepreneurship and Economic Freedom.” In Berggren N, Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom., pp. 245-260. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bylund PL. 2023. “From Meager Means to Market Anarchism: The Political Evolution of an Ordinary Swede.” In Cavallo JA, Block WE, Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World, pp. 41-46. Palgrave Macmillan.
Bylund PL. 2022. “Entrepreneurship and the Market Process.” In Bylund PL, A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics, pp. 84-102. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bylund PL. 2022. “Introduction to A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics.” In Bylund PL, A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics, pp. 1-5. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bylund SC, Bylund PL. 2022. “The Economic Firm as a Strategic Means for Entrepreneurship.” In Gupta VK, Goktan AB, Shirokova GV, Karna A, Research Handbook on Strategic Entrepreneurship, pp. 24-49. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. [SSRN] (Peer reviewed.)
Bylund PL. 2020. “Make Your Startup an Island.” In Hastings HH, Austrian Economics In Contemporary Business Applications: 6 Professors build a robust bridge from economics to innovative new business models, pp. 58-67. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute.
Bylund PL. 2018. “The Management Problem of Socialism: Cost at the Expense of Value.” In McCaffrey M, The Economic Theory of Costs: Foundations and New Directions, pp. 225-241. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2016. “What the entrepreneurial problem reveals about Keynesian macroeconomics.” In Kates S, What’s Wrong with Keynesian Economic Theory? pp. 26-43. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2015. “The Realm of Entrepreneurship in the Market: Capital Theory, Production, and Change.” In Bylund PL, Howden D, The Next Generation in Austrian Economics: Essays In Honor of Joseph T. Salerno, pp. 89-104. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2015. “Därför kan offentlig sektor inte fungera.” In Eriksson M, Ydstedt A (eds.), Svensk Tidskrift Årsbok 2013 och 2014, pp. 104-118. Stockholm: Svensk Tidskrift.
Bylund PL. 2014. “The Firm and the Authority Relation.” In Nell GL (ed.), Austrian Theory and Economic Organization: Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries, pp. 97-120. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2014. “Toward a Framework for Behavioral Strategy: What We Can Learn from Austrian Economics.” In Das TK (ed.), Behavioral Strategy: Emerging Perspectives, pp. 205-232. Information Age Publishing. [SSRN]
Bylund PL, Holbrook CM, Klein PG. 2014. “‘They Have the Internet on Computers Now?’ Entrepreneurship and Economics in The Simpsons.” In Hall JC (ed.) Homer Economicus: The Simpsons and Economics, pp. 61-69. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2013. “Löntagarfonderna och ägandet av produktionsmedlen.” In Eriksson M (ed.) Sista försöket att socialisera Sverige? 30 år efter löntagarfondsstriden, pp. 37-44. Stockholm: Svensk Tidskrift.
Bylund PL. 2013. “Vi behöver nationalekonomin.” In Ydstedt A (ed.) Svensk Tidskrift Årsbok 2012, pp. 79-84. Stockholm: Svensk Tidskrift.
Foss NJ, Klein PG, Bylund PL. 2012. “Entrepreneurship and the Economics of the Firm.” In Hjorth D (ed.) Handbook of Organisational Entrepreneurship, pp. 49-63. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. [SSRN] (Peer reviewed.)
Review of Linsbichler A, Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist? A New Analysis of the Epistemology of the Austrian School of Economics (2017). 2023. Review of Austrian Economics, 36(4): 611-615.
Review of Kates S, Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy (2020). 2021. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 24(2): 374-378.
Review of Sanandaji N, Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism (2015). 2018. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 20(4): 381-384.
Review of Randolph GM, Tasto MT, Salvino RF (Eds.), Public Policy, Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Public Policy on Entrepreneurial Outcomes (2017). 2018. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 20(4): 385-388.
Review of Taylor MZ, The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology (2016). 2017. Public Choice, 170(3): 327-329.
Review of Bergh A, Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State (2014). 2015. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 8(1): 75-81.
Review of Westeren KI (Ed.), Foundations Of The Knowledge Economy: Innovation, Learning and Clusters (2012). 2014. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 3(1): 177-179.
Review of Lewin P, Capital in Disequilibrium: The Role of Capital in a Changing World (2012). 2013. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 15(3): 375-382.
Review of Leeson PT, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (2009). 2011. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 80(1): 260-262.
Review of Yunus M, Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (2007), (with M. P. Mondelli). 2009. Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development. 1(3): 125-127.
Translated Works
Wicksell K. 2011. Knut Wicksell’s Tribute to Menger. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 14(4): 462-470.
Conference/Research Presentations
“The Negative Influence of Stakeholder Orientation of Ventures and the Mitigating Role of Managerial Skills of Venture Board.” Paper presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Munich, Germany. June 2024.
“Uncovering the Centerpiece in Austrian Growth Theory.” Paper presented at Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March 2024.
“Entrepreneurship in Austrian Economics: From Menger to Kirzner.” Paper presented at Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2023.
“Entrepreneurship and Market Process.” Paper presented at Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2023.
“From Rivalrousness to Breaking New Ground.” Paper included in the “Kirzner at 50: Putting Competition Back in ‘Competition and Entrepreneurship'” symposium at the Academy of Management, Boston, MA. August, 2023.
“Entrepreneurship & Growth: Agent-Based Modeling Evidence.” Paper presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Knoxville, TN. June, 2023.
“Sharing Economy as Transaction Platform Innovation.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association, Fort Lauderdale, FL. November, 2022.
“Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association, Fort Lauderdale, FL. November, 2022.
“Market and Technological Uncertainty: Consequences to Imitative and Disruptive Entrepreneurship.” Paper presented at the Southern Management Association, Little Rock, AR. October, 2022.
“Market morality as coherence to entrepreneurial rationality.” Paper presented at the Markets & Society conference, Mercatus Center, Falls Church, WA. October, 2022.
“The entrepreneurial cognitive adjustment mechanism: hybrid entrepreneurship as a solution to mitigate illegal migration.” Paper presented at the Migration and Organizations Conference, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. October, 2022.
“The Mechanics of Economic Growth: A Polycentric Entrepreneurship Approach.” Paper presented at the WINIR Conference on Polycentric Governance & the Challenges of the 21st Century, online. September, 2022.
“Sharing Economy as Transaction Platform Innovation.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA. August, 2022.
“The Mechanics of Economic Growth: A Polycentric Entrepreneurship Approach.” Paper presented at the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA. July, 2022.
“Understanding the Role of Perceptions in Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Experiment.” Paper presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Waco, TX. June, 2022.
“How Institutional Configurations Shape the Entrepreneurship Process and Outcomes: A Cross-Country Analysis.” Paper presented at the QCA Conference of the Americas 2022, Houston, TX, April, 2022.
“How does Entrepreneurship and Credit Relate? The Different Views of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s Students Joseph A. Schumpeter and Ludwig von Mises.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2022.
“Beyond Poverty and Prosperity: Chinese Institutional Uncertainty.” Paper presented at the Public Choice Society annual meeting, Nashville, TN. March, 2022.
“How does entrepreneurship and credit relate? The different views of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s students Joseph A. Schumpeter and Ludwig von Mises.” Paper presented at the History of Economics Society annual meeting, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands (online). December 2021.
“Market Pioneership and the Firm as Decentralized Production”. Paper presented in the WINIR Workshop on Polycentricity, Markets and Firms, online. December 2021.
“Extending Baumol: Microfoundations of the Institutional Determinants of Entrepreneurship.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Houston, TX. November 2021.
“Entrepreneurial Rationality as Value Alignment.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management (online). August, 2021.
“Adam Smith’s Entrepreneurial Consumer: What Do the Butcher, Baker, and Brewer Need?” Paper presented at the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA. June, 2021.
“Understanding Imitative and Disruptive Entrepreneurship within the Context of Ignorance.” Paper presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (online). June 2021.
“Kirzner’s Entrepreneurial Discovery from a Mengerian Perspective.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March 2021.
“Understanding the Limits of Pure Theory in Economics: Knight and Mises.” Paper presented at Symposium on Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Arizona State University (online). January 2021.
“Separation of Power and Expertise: Evidence of the Tyranny of Experts in the Covid-19 Responses of Sweden versus Others.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 2020.
“Testing Theories of Entrepreneurial Opportunity: An Agent Based Model of Economic Growth.” Paper accepted for presentation at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Knoxville, TN. June 2020. Conference canceled due to coronavirus.
“Entrepreneurship, Uncertainty, and Institutions.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL. November, 2019.
“Entrepreneurship Blind Spots: Why Global Economic Growth Leaves Western Cities Behind.” Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society annual conference, Minneapolis, MN. October, 2019.
“Entrepreneurship, uncertainty and institutions: a model for understanding the uncertainty borne by entrepreneurs.” Paper presented at the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference 2019, Lund, Sweden. September, 2019.
“Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Economic Growth: An Agent Based Simulation.” Paper presented at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL. September, 2019.
“What is entrepreneurial judgment, anyway?” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, MA. August, 2019.
“Understanding the Role of Perceptions in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: A Discrete Choice Experiment.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, MA. August, 2019.
“Truth and Knowledge in Management: Toward a Modern Rationalist Approach.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, MA. August, 2019.
“Adam Smith’s Entrepreneurial Consumer: What Do the Butcher, Baker, and Brewer Need?” Paper presented at the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, NV. April, 2019.
“Entrepreneurship, Uncertainty, and Judgment: A Model for Understanding the Uncertainty Borne by Entrepreneurs.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2019.
“What is entrepreneurial judgment, anyway?” Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society annual conference, Paris, France. September, 2018.
“Where uncertainty certainly matters: toward an institutional micro theory of entrepreneurship and economic change.” Paper presented at the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference 2018, Hong Kong, PRC. September 2018.
“Back to the future? How counterhistory can be a means for progress in management and entrepreneurship theory.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
“What Uncertainty Is Borne?” Paper presented at the AMR Special Topics Forum “The Implications of Uncertainty for Management and Organization Theories Conference,” Pittsburgh, PA. May, 2018.
“A Discrete Choice Experiment on the Entrepreneurial Response to Interstate Government Competition.” Paper presented at the Association of Private Enterprise Meetings, Las Vegas, NV. April, 2018.
“What Uncertainty is Relevant for Entrepreneurs? A New Framework.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2018.
“Effectuation and the Logic of Action: A Praxeological Assessment of Effectuation Theory.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2018.
“Entrepreneurial Judgment in Knight and Mises.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Tampa, FL. November 2017.
“Toward a Modern Rationalist Approach to Entrepreneurship.” Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society annual conference, Houston, TX. October 2017.
“The Firm vs. the Market: Dehomogenizing the Transaction Cost Theories of Coase and Williamson.” Paper presented at the Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. September 2017.
“Entrepreneurial Judgment in Frank Knight and Ludwig von Mises.” Paper presented at the History of Economics Society‘s meeting, Toronto, ON. June 2017.
“Effectuation and the Logic of Action: A Praxeological Assessment of Effectuation Theory.” Paper presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Oklahoma City, OK. June 2017.
“Entrepreneurship as Production.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Washington, DC. November 2016.
“Entrepreneurship as Production.” Paper presented at the Intersection of Science, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation conference, School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM), ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, PRC. October 2016.
“Boundaries of Uncertainty-Bearing: A New Institutional Approach.” Paper presented at the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference 2016, Boston, MA. September 2016.
“Teaching Free Market Thinking and Market-based Management.” Workshop discussant at the Academy of Management meeting, Anaheim CA. August 2016.
“Economic Calculation and Several Property.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn AL. March 2016.
“The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm.” Book presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn AL. March 2016.
“The Firm vs. the Market: The Transaction Cost Theories of Coase and Williamson Dehomogenized.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Vancouver BC. August 2015.
“An Institutional Approach to Political Uncertainty in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Vancouver BC. August 2015.
“The Austrian School of Strategy: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Vancouver BC. August 2015.
“What Does Entrepreneurship have to do with Economic Growth?” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Vancouver BC. August 2015.
“The relationship between inequality and entrepreneurship: A conceptual model and preliminary tests.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Vancouver BC. August 2015.
“Does Entrepreneurship Facilitate more Entrepreneurship?” Paper presented at the Philosophy of Management conference, Oxford, UK. July 2015.
“Entrepreneurs and Regime Uncertainty: A New Institutional Approach.” Paper presented at the Politicization of Firms Workshop, Crécy la Chapelle, France. May 2015.
“The Firm vs. the Market: Dehomogenizing the Transaction Cost Theories of Coase and Williamson.” Paper presented at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. April 2015.
“The Firm vs. the Market: Dehomogenizing the Transaction Cost Theories of Coase and Williamson.” Paper presented at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping, Sweden. April 2015.
“Where Do Factor Markets Come From? Toward A Resource-Based Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm.” Paper presented at the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Symposium 2015, Lugano, Switzerland. April 2015.
“Entrepreneurs and Regime Uncertainty: A New Institutional Approach.” Paper presented at the Prague Conference on Political Economy, Prague, Czech Republic. April 2015.
“The Firm vs. the Market: Dehomogenizing the Transaction Cost Theories of Coase and Williamson.” Paper presented at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí Nad Labem, Czech Republic. April 2015.
“Where Do Factor Markets Come From? Toward A Resource-Based Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm.” Paper presented at the University of Economics Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. April 2015.
“Delineating the Entrepreneurial Problem.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn AL. March 2015.
“Implications of Discovery and Creation: How Entrepreneurial Opportunities Relate to the Market Process.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Philadelphia PA. August 2014.
“Firm Emergence in a Thick Market: the Boundaries and Management of Voluntary Organization.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Philadelphia PA. August 2014.
“A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility.” Paper presented at the Federation of Business Disciplines, Houston, TX. March 2014.
“Does Entrepreneurship Facilitate More Entrepreneurship?” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2014.
“Implications of Discovery and Creation: How entrepreneurial Opportunities Relate to the Market Process.” Paper presented at AOM Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference, Keystone CO, March 2014.
“Where do Factor Markets Come From? Toward a Resource-Based Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm.” Paper presented at AOM Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference, Keystone CO, March 2014.
“The Firm: Heterogenizing Heterogeneous Resources.” Paper presented at the 1st Management Theory Conference, San Francisco CA, October 2013.
“The ‘Austrian’ School of Strategy: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Orlando FL, August 2013.
“The Firm: Heterogenizing Heterogeneous Resources.” Paper presented at the Midwest Strategy Meeting, Champaign IL, July 2013.
“The Firm: Heterogenizing Heterogeneous Resources.” Paper presented at the Journal of Management Studies Workshop, Denver CO, April 2013.
“The ‘Austrian’ School of Strategy: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead.” Paper presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn AL, March 2013.
“Can Entrepreneurs Cope with Regime Uncertainty? Insight from New Institutional Economics.” Paper presented at the Ratio Institute Colloquium for Young Social Scientists, Stockholm, Sweden. August 2012.
“Simulating the Role of Specialization at the Firm/Market Boundary.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Boston, MA. August, 2012.
“Ronald Coase’s Nature of the Firm and the Socialist Calculation Debate.” Paper presented at the History of Economics Society meeting, St. Catharines, Ontario. June, 2012.
“Simulating the Role of Specialization at the Firm/Market Boundary.” Paper presented at Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, April 2012.
“The Economic Case for Integration.” Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2012.
“Simulating the Role of Specialization at the Firm/Market Boundary.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Washington DC. November, 2011.
“The Firm as an Island of Specialization.” Paper presented at the Multi- and Micro-Level Issues in Strategic Entrepreneurship conference, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen. October, 2011.
“The Coasean and Williamsonian Transaction Cost Theories of Organization: A Critical Analysis from a Specialization Perspective.” Paper poster presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. July, 2011.
“Transaction Cost Theories of Economic Organization Dehomogenized: a Specialization-Based Approach.” Paper presented at the History of Economics Society meeting, Notre Dame. June, 2011.
“The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: An Austrian Approach.” Professional development workshop paper at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Atlanta, GA. May, 2011.
“The Firm as Extra-Market Specialization.” Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2011.
“The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: the Role of the Firm in the Creation of Factor Markets.” Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2011.
“The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: the Role of the Firm in the Creation of Factor Markets.” Paper presented at the Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City, PA. February, 2011.
“The Firm as Extra-Market Specialization. Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Atlanta, GA. November, 2010.
“Causal-Realist Answers to the Coasean Question. Or: Traveling Back to the Future with Durkheim.” Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2009.
“Piracy, Inc: On the Bearing of the Firm Analogy to Pirate Organization.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, San Antonio, TX. November, 2009.
“The Theory of the Firm: Coasean Misconceptions and Austrian Solutions.” Paper presented at the Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City, PA. October, 2009.
Teaching
Oklahoma State University, 2015-
Entrepreneurship & the Economy (Austrian economics)
Graduate section 2021Fa, 2019Fa, 2018Fa, 2017Fa
Undergraduate section 2023Sp, 2021Fa, 2019Fa, 2019Sp, 2018Fa, 2018Sp, 2017Fa
The Entrepreneur: Hero or Villain
Graduate section 2016Fa
Undergraduate section 2019Fa, 2019Sp, 2018Sp, 2017Fa, 2017Sp, 2016Fa, 2016Sp
Online section 2016Fa
Entrepreneurship and Value Creation in the Economy: Theory and History (doctoral seminar course) 2022Sp, 2021Sp, 2020Sp, 2019Sp
Entrepreneurship & Society
Undergraduate 2022Fa
Online section 2021Fa
Austrian Economics (in the Executive PhD Program) 2018Fa
Honors Thesis, advisor, 2018Sp, 2022Sp
Entrepreneurial Thinking and Behavior (undergraduate), 2016Fa
Applied Research Practicum (in the Executive PhD Program), 2016Sp/Su/Fa
Economic Freedom of the World (undergraduate), 2016Sp
Introduction to Entrepreneurship (undergraduate), 2021Fa, 2015Fa
Free Enterprise (undergraduate), 2015Fa
(Fa = fall semester; Sp = spring semester; Su = summer course.)
Mises University, Mises Institute, Auburn AL 2023Su
The Unseen Costs of Regulations
Firms, Managers, and Entrepreneurship
Libertarian Solutions (online course) 2023Sp
Immigration
Mises University, Mises Institute, Auburn AL 2022Su
The True Cost of Regulations
Economic After Effects of Covid
Mises University, Mises Institute, Auburn AL 2021Su
The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized
Austrian Economics in Business
Libertarian Solutions (online course) 2020Fa
Entrepreneurship as a Force for Political Change
Fallacies that Ruin Economics
The Real Impact of Regulations — Seen, Unseen, & Unrealized Opportunities
Sweden – Democratic Socialism or a Free Market Vindication?
Mises University, Mises Institute, Auburn AL 2020Su
How Entrepreneurs Built the World
Austrian Economics in Business
The Tenth NEU Summer Camp of International Economics and Management Scholars, North Eastern University, Shenyang, China 2019Su
Economic Growth: Exchange, Production, and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and Value
Entrepreneurship and Regulations
The Ninth NEU Summer Camp of International Economics and Management Scholars, North Eastern University, Shenyang, China 2018Su
Causes of Economic Growth and Well-Being
Ethics and the Market
Value and Entrepreneurship
Unrealized Opportunities
The Eighth NEU Summer Camp of International Economics and Management Scholars, North Eastern University, Shenyang, China 2017Su
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
The Entrepreneur as a Hero and as a Villain
Destructive Effects of Regulations (the Unrealized)
University of Missouri, 2010-2013
Strategic Management (undergraduate), 2013Sp
Entrepreneurial Innovation Management: Enterprise Operations (undergraduate), 2013Sp, 2012Fa
The Entrepreneurial Process (undergraduate), 2013Sp, 2012Fa
Intermediate Price Theory (undergraduate), 2010Sp
Graduate Student Research Supervision
Park, David. Doctoral committee, chair. Entrepreneurship. Expected 2025.
Jones, Shawn. Doctoral committee, chair. Entrepreneurship. Expected 2025.
D’Andrea, Fernando. Doctoral committee, chair. Entrepreneurship. 2023.
Trost, Steve. Doctoral committee, chair. Entrepreneurship. 2019.
Purtell, Clint. Doctoral committee, member. Business for Executives. 2020.
Leonard, Jamie. Doctoral committee, member. Business for Executives. 2019.
White, Justin. Doctoral committee, member. Business for Executives. 2019.
Mawhorter, Joshua. Master thesis, reader. Mises Graduate School. 2023.
Bucher, Eddie. Master thesis, reader. Mises Graduate School. 2023.
Kemabonta, Tam. Master thesis, reader. Mises Graduate School. 2024.
Other Teaching Experience
Participated in a three-day teaching workshop (Institute for Humane Studies), Washington DC, 2011.
Advanced Graduate Teaching Skill Development Program, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri, 2008-2010.
Graduate teaching assistant, AE3286 Economics of Managerial Decision Making, Fall 2009
Graduate teaching assistant, AE1041 Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2009
English Teacher, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004
Chief Competency Officer and internal educator at WOCHB. Westergren och Boman 2001-2003.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Lawrence W. Fertig Prize, awarded to the author who best advances economic science in the Austrian tradition, Mises Institute, 2024.
Salary Support grant, Institute for Humane Studies, 2023.
Best reviewer, Academy of Management Perspectives, 2023.
E.C. Harwood Visiting Research Fellowship, American Institute for Economic Research, 2023.
Best reviewer, Academy of Management Perspectives, 2022.
Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize, Mises Institute, 2022.
E.C. Harwood Visiting Research Fellowship, American Institute for Economic Research, 2022.
E.C. Harwood Visiting Research Fellowship, American Institute for Economic Research, 2021.
Merrick Foundation Teaching Award, Oklahoma State University, 2020.
Research grant (co-PI), School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University. $13,000.
Best reviewer, Academy of Management meeting, ENT section, 2018.
Outstanding Entrepreneurial Scholar, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University, 2018.
Research grant (co-PI), Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise, Oklahoma State University. $4,000.
Best reviewer, Academy of Management meeting, ENT section, 2016.
Outstanding Entrepreneurial Scholar, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University, 2016.
Lawrence W. Fertig Prize, awarded “for the scholarly article published during 2014 that best advances economic science in the Austrian tradition,” Mises Institute, 2015.
Research grant (co-PI), Baylor University Research Committee and the Vice Provost for Research. $4,500.
Outstanding reviewer, Academy of Management meeting, ENT section, 2014.
Outstanding reviewer, Academy of Management meeting, BPS section, 2013.
Founding Scholar, Entrepreneurship Research Society, 2013.
Warren and Sylvia Samuels Young Scholars Award, History of Economics Society, 2012.
John Bies International Travel Scholarship, Graduate School, University of Missouri, 2012.
Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute of Humane Studies: B. Marcus Fellow 2011-2012; Dan Searle Fellow 2010-2011; Thomas C. & Irene W. Graham Fellow 2009-2010; Cortopassi Fellow 2008-2009.
HES Young Scholar, Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Program, History of Economics Society, 2011.
Albert R. Hagan Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Agricultural Economics, awarded “the top graduate student in the department,” Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri, April 11, 2011.
Superior Graduate Student Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Dept of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Graduate Student Association, University of Missouri, 2010; 2009.
Frank Miller Graduate Student Award, for “leadership provided to graduate students in the department and to the agricultural economics graduate program,” Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri, December 4, 2009.
Richard E. Fox Foundation Research Paper Contest, 2nd place, Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City PA, October 30-31, 2009.
Margaret Rowley Fellowship, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009.
Scholarship, Tekn. Dr. Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse för Internationellt Industriellt Företagande (The Dr. Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for Advanced Education in International Industrial Entrepreneurship), 2008-2011.
Fellow, Preparing Future Faculty program, University of Missouri, 2008-2009.
BEST scholarship, JUSEK and VSJ, for best informatics/information science thesis in Sweden, 1999.
Service
Editorship
Journal of Business Venturing, field editor for Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Dec 2022–
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, associate editor, Mar 2019-
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, associate editor, Jul 2016-Mar 2023 (book review editor Sep 2015-Jul 2016).
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, special issue guest editor, “The state of entrepreneurship and public policy” (2023)
Journal of Institutional Economics, special issue guest editor, “100th Anniversary of Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainly and Profit (1921)” (2021)
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, special issue guest editor, “Austrian Entrepreneurship Theory” (2020)
MISES Journal, special issue guest editor, “Entrepreneurship” (2019)
Austrian Economics Book Series, Agenda Publishing, editor, Apr 2018-Jan 2022.
Editorial Review Board
Journal of Management Studies, November 2013-
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, September 2014-
Academy of Management Review, April 2017-.
Cosmos+Taxis (consulting editor), May 2017-.
Journal of Business Venturing, June 2017-Dec 2022.
Service to the Institution
Search committee (chair), School of Entrepreneurship, 2023.
Merrick Foundation Teaching Award Selection Committee (member), Oklahoma State University, 2021-2023.
Search committee (member), School of Entrepreneurship, 2017.
Service to Professional Organizations
AOM Entrepreneurship Division Executive Committee. Aug 2022-2025.
AOM Entrepreneurship Division Research Committee. Jan 2017-.
Conferences
Academy of Management meeting; Discussant 2017; 2016; 2014; Session/Symposium/PDW Organizer 2022; 2018; 2017; 2015; PDW Panelist 2023; 2022; 2021; 2020; Session chair 2022; Reviewer Strategy division, 2011-2017; Reviewer Entrepreneurship division 2013-2022.
Strategic Management Society annual conference; Discussion Facilitator 2017.
Southern Economic Association meeting; Panelist 2023; Discussant 2022.
Austrian Economics Research Conference; Program Committee 2023; 2022; 2021; 2020; 2019; 2018; Session organizer & chair “Austrian Economics in Contemporary Management and Entrepreneurship Research” 2014.
Organizer
AMP workshop on inequality and innovation. Stillwater, OK, May 6, 2019.
Affiliated Positions
Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL. 2022-. (Associated Scholar 2013-2018; Fellow 2018-2022.)
Associated Researcher, Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 2012-
Research Fellow, McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, University of Missouri, Columbia MO. 2008-2012
Research fellow, Business Research and Information Development Group (BRIDG), Columbia MO. 2007.
Professional Affiliations
Academy of Management, since 2010.
Strategic Management Society, since 2011.
American Economic Association, since 2010.
History of Economics Society, since 2011.
Nationalekonomiska föreningen, since 2014.
World Interdisciplinary Network on Institutional Research, since 2014.
Media and Outreach
Columnist, The Entrepreneur magazine, 2015-2022, 60+ published columns available at www.entrepreneur.com/author/per-bylund
Invited Speaker
Hayek’s Nobel: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Austrian Prize, Wirth Institute Workshop on Austrian Economics, Kraków University of Economics, Cracow, Poland. 6 June, 2024.
How Entrepreneurship is Key to Freedom and Prosperity, Festival de las Ideas, Mexico City, Mexico, 9 March, 2024.
Austrian Models of Economic Growth and the Impact of Regulations, The Austrian Economics Discord Conference, Online, 6 January, 2024.
Entrepreneurship in Austrian Economic Theory, Koło Naukowe Austriackiej Szkoły Ekonomii na UEK, Students For Liberty – Polska and KASE Kraków, Cracow, Poland (online). 13 December, 2023.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Tulsa, OK. 28 October, 2023.
The Effect of Regulations on Entrepreneurship and Prosperity, Free Economics Workshop 2023, Tokyo, Japan (online). 7 October, 2023.
International Experts’ Roundtable: “Globally Allocation of Entrepreneur Assets,” Chinese Austrian Economic Forum, Honolulu, HI. 25 August, 2023.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Durant, OK. 1 August, 2023.
How to Think about the Economy, Pathway to Prosperity: Economic Progress, Americans for Prosperity New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 10 June, 2023.
How Regulations Destroy the Market Process, Capitalism & Morality, Calgary, AB. 20 May, 2023.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City, OK. 25 March, 2023.
Debate: Anarchism vs. Minarchism, Free Enterprise Society at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 30 March, 2023.
Anarchism and Anarcho-Capitalism: What does it mean to have ‘rules without rulers’?”, Free Enterprise Society at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 23 March, 2023.
Entrepreneurship and the Market Process, Klub investorů, Brno, Czech Republic (online), 3 March, 2023.
How to Think about the Economy, Mises Meet-up, Tampa, FL, 25 February, 2023.
How to Think about the Economy, Coinbits, (Online), 17 February, 2023.
How to Think about the Economy, Miami Bitcoiners Meet-up, Miami, FL, 18 November, 2022.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City, OK. 12 November, 2022.
How to Safeguard your Business from Inflation, Northwest Oklahoma Contractors Conference, Enid, OK, 23 September, 2022.
How to Think about the Economy, Austrian Economics Discord Server, Online, 16 September, 2022.
The Libertarian’s Competitive Advantage, Liberty International World Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, 12 August, 2022.
How to think about entrepreneurship and growth, Free Market Conference: Expanding Freedom in Africa, Face of Liberty International, Nigeria (online), 5 June, 2022.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Economic Growth: An Agent Based Simulation, University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, UK, 17 May, 2022.
Mises Meetup, Mises Institute, Birmingham, AL, 2 April, 2022.
Entrepreneurship vs. Regulations, Liberty Forum by the Free State Project, 4-6 March, 2022.
Monopoly Power: What Should We Fear? Free Enterprise Society at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 15 February, 2022.
Entrepreneurship, Discovery and the Market Process, Austrian Economics Seminar, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, India (online), 12 February, 2022.
The Market Process: Real and Imagined, The Austrian Economics Discord Conference, Online, 8-9 January, 2022.
(Austrian) Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, eBaithak: Conversations in Policy, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, India (online), 9 December, 2021.
The Broader Implications of the Welfare State: Culture and Economy, Symposium on “Does Sweden Have a Socialist Economy?”, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 19 November, 2021.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City, OK. 30 October, 2021.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City, OK. 25 October, 2021.
A Strategy for the Austrian School, Mises Supporters Summit, Mises Institute, St. Petersburg, FL. 22 October, 2021.
Global Capitalism Awareness Event, ROCKME, Rivers State University, Nigeria (online). 8 October, 2021.
The case against intellectual property laws, Free Enterprise Society at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 20 September, 2021.
Matrix of Healthcare Regulation vs. Entrepreneurship, Free Market Medical Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX. 6 August, 2021.
Entrepreneurship in the tech space, Make School, San Francisco, CA (online). 23 June, 2021.
Adam Smith’s Entrepreneurial Consumer: What Do the Butcher, Baker, and Brewer Need? American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA. 22 June, 2021.
Health Care Policy – Stop Living for Staying Alive, Free Market Road Show, Vienna, Austria (online). 2 June, 2021.
Entrepreneurship seminar, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (online). 26 May, 2021.
The Austrian School of Economics: Past, Present, and Future, International Symposium on Economic Thought, Istanbul, Turkey (online). 22 May, 2021.
Striving Power – Reaping Dependence, Free Market Road Show, Skopje, Macedonia (online). 10 May, 2021.
How to Think Successfully About Entrepreneurship, Gadsden State Community College (online). 30 April, 2021.
Panelist, Free Market Road Show, Vienna, Austria (online). 12 April, 2021.
Panelist, Austrian Economics in Contemporary Business Applications, Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. 19 March, 2021.
Convention Keynote, Northeast Oklahoma Libertarian Party, Tulsa, OK. 14 March, 2021.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City, OK. 13 March, 2021.
Lockdowns and Liberty, American Institute for Economic Research, Birmingham, AL. 26 February, 2021.
Austrian Economics, Unga Aktiesparare, Eskilstuna, Sweden (online). 9 November, 2020.
Discussion leader, Colloquium on Entrepreneurship, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (online). 7 November, 2020.
Economics, Fears Fellowship, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Tulsa, OK. 31 October, 2020.
What Causes Prosperity? Bitcoin Cash Conference (online). 1 August, 2020.
State of the Economy, Movimento Libertario and Miglio Verde (online). 24 April, 2020.
Discussion leader, Colloquium on Entrepreneurship, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL. 22 February, 2020.
The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives, University of the Bahamas and Nassau Institute, Nassau, Bahamas. 6 February, 2020.
Automation and Jobs: the Future of Employment, Appalachian Leadership Institute, Dalton, GA. 5 December, 2019.
Firm Theory, entrepreneurship and strategic management, III Fórum Mackenzie De Liberdade Econômica, São Paulo, Brazil. 6 November, 2019.
AI and the Structure of Production, University of the Bahamas and Nassau Institute, Nassau, Bahamas. 19 March, 2019.
What Entrepreneurship means for Economics, Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City, PA. 23 February, 2019.
New Economy, New Currency, New Finance and Public Policy (IAPP-CIPA), Beijing, China. 30 July, 2018
War & Peace, Book Salon: Trade War & Free Trade (IAPP-CIPA), Beijing, China. 29 July, 2018
War and Peace, Book Salon: Trade War and Free Trade (Unirule), Beijing, China. 28 July, 2018.
Entrepreneurship and the Market Economy, Freedom in an UnFree World (European Students for Liberty), Stockholm, Sweden. 30 September, 2017.
The Unrealized: Why Even Libertarians Do Not Recognize the Destructive Effect of Regulations, World Conference (Liberty International), Fajardo, Puerto Rico. 9 August, 2017.
Public Goods Don’t Matter, Seminar on Globalization and Open Market (IAPP-CIPA), Beijing, China. 13 July, 2017.
There Are Never Guarantees: Entrepreneurship and Healthcare, Book Salon: The Constitution of Liberty (Unirule), Beijing, China. 12 July, 2017.
Murray N. Rothbard Lecture, Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL. March, 2017.
What Makes a Free Society? Bubb.la, Stockholm, Sweden. 14 September, 2016.
2015 Regional Conference Oklahoma, Students for Liberty, Norman, OK. 14 November, 2015.
Other Professional Experience
Entrepreneurship
Founder and co-founder of four startups between 1993 and 2005:
Beauty by Nature, 1993-1994.
CD-Spratten (with V. Eichenholz), 1994-1996.
Aparadigmal.com, 2003-2006.
New Chapter Content Services (with S. C. Bylund), 2004-2006.
Consultancy and Freelance Projects
Various research projects, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, 2012-.
Literature and policy review, University of Missouri, Office of Economic Development. 2013.
Literature review, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. 2013.
Non-Academic Employment
Manager of IT and Development, nordengren ett, Malmö, Sweden. 2006-2007.
Business Analyst, Guide Konsult, Malmö, Sweden. 2005-2006.
Communications Expert, William’s English Services, Taipei, Republic of China. 2004.
Business and IT Consultant, WOCHB. Westergren och Boman, Stockholm, Sweden. 2000-2003.
Business Process Technology Consultant, Datastrategi / Mogul.com, Stockholm, Sweden. 1999-2000.