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  1. Prediction Markets, Gamblification, and YOLO Capitalism

    Article • June 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  2. New Provinces within Pakistan? A Fiscal Federalism Perspective

    Article • May 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  3. Rebalancing Pakistan’s Growth Model from Consumption towards Productivity

    Article • May 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  4. Economic Diplomacy for Pakistan

    Article • April 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  5. A history of Dogecoin

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  6. Blockchain and environmental sustainability

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  7. Conclusion

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  8. Introduction

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  9. Public Governance on the Blockchain

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  10. The double-spending problem and cryptocurrencies

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  11. Crypto-Oligarchy: The Cryptocurrency Lobby in American Politics

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  12. Pakistan’s Space Economy?

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  13. Positive public administration in developing countries during crises: the case of Covid-19 in Pakistan

    Article • August 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  14. Conclusion

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  15. Cryptoanarchism

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  16. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  17. Introduction

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  18. The Decentralized Autonomous Organization and Governance Issues

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  19. Modern Economic Warfare and its Implications

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  20. The Case for a Parliamentary Budget Office in Pakistan

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  21. The Parallels between Digital and Traditional Finance in Developing Countries

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  22. Dumb Money

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  23. Pakistan 2047: Optimizing our Future Economic Potential

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  24. Pakistan's Taxation Conundrum <br>

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  25. The Lost Truth Era

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  26. Vote for the Blockchain

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  27. Writings at CASS (2018-23), Volume 1: Knowledge, Politics, History & Violence

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  28. Writings at CASS (2018-23), Volume 3: International Economy & Global Crises

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  29. بلاکچین: پاکستان کے جمہوری نظام کی جدت، شفافیت، اور سہولت کا مستقبل (Blockchain: the Future of Innovation, Transparency, and Convenience for Pakistan's Democratic System)

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  30. Generative AI Image Experiment: Case Study of a National Emblem

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  31. Writings at CASS (2018-23), Volume 2: National Economy

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  32. Reflecting on public value in Covid-19

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  33. Conclusion

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  34. Future Pandemic Preparedness

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  35. Inequality Between Publics

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  36. Inequality Within Publics

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  37. Introduction

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  38. Necropolitics and Public Value

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  39. Public Value and the Post-Pandemic Society

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  40. Stagflation

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  41. Sustainability and Public Value

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  42. The Great Resignation and the Value of Labor

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  43. Value Transitions and Value Stability

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  44. Activist Retail Investors and the Future of Financial Markets

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Sven Van Kerckhoven, Mr Usman W. Chohan

  45. Conclusion

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  46. Counter-hegemonic Finance

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  47. Introduction

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  48. Public Value Theory and YOLO Capitalism

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  49. Speculative Behavior and Expectations in Economic Turmoil

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  50. Adaptive Politics

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  51. Cryptocurrencies and Parliamentary Oversight

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  52. Cryptocurrencies: Illegal in Pakistan?

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  53. FTX, Cryptocurrencies, and Anarchism Ignored

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  54. FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Elite Capture

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  55. Generative AI, ChatGPT, and the Future of Jobs

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  56. On the Expulsion of Afghan Migrants

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  57. The Janissariate

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  58. FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cryptoexchange Problem

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  59. Public Value and Citizen-Driven Digital Innovation: A Cryptocurrency Study

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  60. Crypto Winters

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  61. Metaverse or Metacurse?

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  62. The Economic Dimensions of Pakistan-India Reengagement

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  63. Coronavirus & Vaccine Nationalism

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  64. Decentralized Finance (DeFi): An Emergent Alternative Financial Architecture

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  65. Directions for Pensions in Pakistan

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  66. Economic Diplomacy: A Review

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  67. Gender and Hyperpolyglotism: Addressing a Myth

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  68. Government-Citizen Pandemic Relief Efforts: Case of India's PM CARES Fund

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  69. Is the FATF an Economic Hitman?

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  70. Multilingualism As a Value: The International Association of Hyperpolyglots

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  71. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Early Thoughts and a Research Agenda

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  72. Pakistan’s Defense Budget: Myths & Realities

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  73. Reprieve and Mercy: Debt Relief for the Developing World during Coronavirus

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  74. Showmanship in the Psyche of Polyglots: HYPIA As a Counter-Symbolic Organization

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  75. The Anarchist Principles of an Association of Hyperpolyglots

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  76. The Case for Rare-Language Specialists at HYPIA

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  77. The Construction of an Association of Hyperpolyglots: HYPIA

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  78. The Fall of Kabul: A Public Value Perspective

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  79. The Microeconomic Fallacy of Monetized Polyglots: HYPIA as a Countervailing Force

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  80. Too Big to Fail, Too Small to Win: The Counter-Hegemony of WallStreetBets

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  81. Victoria's New Parliamentary Budget Office: Fiscal Context and Technical Prospects

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  82. YOLO Capitalism

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  83. A Post-Coronavirus World: 7 Points of Discussion for a New Political Economy

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  84. After the Coronavirus Vaccine’s Discovery: Concerns Regarding a COVID-19 Vaccination’s Distribution

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  85. Economics in a Pandemic: Observations from the First Six Months of Coronavirus

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  86. Encroachments & the Mystery of Capital: A Pakistani Context

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  87. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): A General Introduction

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  88. Pharaoh-Nomics: Comparative IMF Development Strategies for Egypt and Pakistan

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  89. Some Precepts of the Digital Economy

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  90. State-Sponsored Cryptocurrencies: The Diverse Motivations

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  91. The Coronavirus Lesson: Do Cryptocurrencies offer a Counter-cyclical Hedge?

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  92. The FATF & Pakistan: A Timeline

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  93. The Housing of Good Intentions: The Naya Pakistan Housing Program

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  94. The Political Economy of the FATF & IMF in Pakistan During 2019 (Part 1)

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  95. The Political Economy of the FATF & IMF in Pakistan During 2019 (Part 2)

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  96. A Green New Deal: Discursive Review and Appraisal

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  97. Bitcoin Returns and the Weekday Effect

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  98. Cryptocurrencies & Traditional Banks

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  99. Cryptocurrencies and Hyperinflation

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  100. Decentralized Applications (dApps): A Short Primer

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  101. The Concept of the Aerotropolis: A Review

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  102. The Leisures of Blockchains #2: Gambling on the Blockchain

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  103. Are Cryptocurrencies Securities?

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  104. Blockchain Enhancing Political Accountability? Sierra Leone 2018 Case

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  105. Oversight and Regulation of Cryptocurrencies: BitLicense

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  106. The Dilemmas of Confidential Information in Parliamentary Budget Offices: 2018 Canadian Case

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  107. The Licentious Blockchains: Outlining an Altcoin Subgenre

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  108. The Problems of Cryptocurrency Thefts and Exchange Shutdowns

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  109. Budget Policy and Reconstruction in Iraq

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  110. Pension Fund Regulation and Governance

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  111. Accountability and Governance in Fiji

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  112. Charters of Budget Honesty

    Article • September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  113. Public Value and Bureaucratic Rhetoric

    Article • September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  114. Public value as rhetoric: a budgeting approach

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan, Kerry Jacobs

  115. Independent Budget Offices and the Politics–Administration Dichotomy

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  116. Public Value: Bureaucrats Versus Politicians

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  117. Legislative Oversight of Bureaucracy

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  118. Budget Office

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  119. A History of Bitcoin

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  120. A History of Dogecoin

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  121. Assessing the Differences in Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrency Legality Across National Jurisdictions

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  122. Bitcoins and Bank Runs: Analysis of Market Imperfections and Investor Hysterics

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  123. Blockchain and Securities Exchanges: Australian Case Study

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  124. Can Budget Offices Fall Short of Their Costing Mandate? Case of South Africa's Nuclear Energy Costings

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  125. Cryptoanarchism and Cryptocurrencies

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  126. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Their Present and Future

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  127. Ex-Ante or Ex-Post? Oversight and Parliamentary Budget Offices

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  128. Fiscal Experiences with Bitcoin: Bulgarian Case Study

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  129. Immigration Policy and its Costs: The Case of Nonpartisan Budget Analysis by the Congressional Budget Office

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  130. India: Potential for a Parliamentary Budget Office

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  131. Ireland's Parliamentary Budget Office: Role and Scope in the Oireachtas

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  132. Terminal Risks for Independent Fiscal Institutions: Lessons from IFIs in Hungary and Venezuela

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  133. The Case for a Legislative Budget Office in Vanuatu

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  134. The Case for a Legislative Budget Office in the Solomon Islands

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  135. The Case for a Parliamentary Budget Office in Western Australia

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  136. The Cryptocurrency Tumblers: Risks, Legality and Oversight

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  137. The Leisures of Blockchains: Exploratory Analysis

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  138. The Parliamentary Budget Office of Zimbabwe: Role and Scope

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  139. ‘I Inherited a Mess’: Evidence from Legislative Budget Office Fiscal Projections at the Beginning of the Trump Era

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  140. Public Value in Politics: A Legislative Budget Office Approach

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  141. The Presidentialisation Thesis and Parliamentary Budget Offices

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, September 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  142. The idea of legislative budgeting in Iraq

    Article • International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, March 2016, Intellect

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  143. An 'Unpresidented' [Sic] Era of Budgeting: The Relationship between the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Post-2016

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  144. The Polish Protests of December 2016 Contextualized as a Participatory Budgeting Problem

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  145. لو شون کا اعتراف دیوانگی در زبان اردو - (Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman)

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  146. Fiscal Sustainability: Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office and the Dwindling Price of Oil

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan

  147. Corporate Leverage in Emerging Markets: Discussing the Implications for Legislative Fiscal Oversight

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Mr Usman W. Chohan