Published papers

Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: a global analysis, 2000–2019

Social Science Research, 2025
(co-authored with Marko Hočevar)

Individualist and collectivist cultures, and the welfare state: A global cross-National analysis of over 120 Societies

Cross-Cultural Research, 2025

Do large, sustained economic freedom reforms hurt or improve women's economic rights?

European Journal of Political Economy, 2025

Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2025
(co-authored with Minea Rutar)

Do societies with freer markets really become less homicidal over time? New evidence from 131 developed and developing societies, 2000–2021

International Journal of Sociology, 2025

Free-market institutions and income inequality: Did the link persist around the world even in times of falling within-country inequality, 2000–2021?

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2025

Does economic freedom push people into suicide? New evidence from developing and developed societies, 1980–2019

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2024
(co-authored with Minea Rutar)

Re-examining extreme poverty before and after the transition to capitalism, 1300s–1900s: the issue of definition, periodization, measurement, and causal responsibility

International Review of Sociology, 2024

Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis

Theory and Society, 2024

The Rise and Apparent Decline of Globalization: What Comes After the “End of History”?

Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics, 2024

‘Free-Market Capitalism’ and Democracy in the Period of Democratic Recession: Investigating the Relationship in 141 Countries, 2006–2017

International Journal of Sociology, 2024

What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy

Social Science Information, 2023

The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire

Journal of Peace Research, 2023

Sociological limits and prospects of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2021

Why do political elites fracture? The unusual case of the Yugoslav communist elite

Journal of Historical Sociology, 2021
(co-authored with Sergej Flere)

Varieties of ‘rationality’ and the question of their continued theoretical relevance

Social Science Information, 2020

For an integrative theory of social behaviour: Theorising with and beyond rational choice theory

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2019

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