All - Scholars

All - Scholars

Sherzod Abdukadirov

  • Research Fellow, Regulatory Studies Program
Sherzod Abdukadirov is a research fellow at the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli

  • Research Fellow
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Omar Al-Ubaydli is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. His primary research interests are experimental economics, political economy, and the economics of science.

Paul Dragos Aligica

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at George Mason University
Paul Dragos Aligica is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, and Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at George Mason University.

Charles Blahous

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare
Charles Blahous is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and public trustee for Medicare and Social Security. His primary research interests include retirement security, with an emphasis on Social Security and employer-provided defined benefit pensions, as well as…

Peter J. Boettke

  • Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center
  • BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center
  • University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
Peter Boettke is a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the…

Donald J. Boudreaux

  • Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism
  • Senior Education Advisor
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Donald J. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Jerry Brito

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Adjunct Professor of Law, George Mason University
Jerry Brito is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and directs the Technology Policy Program. His primary research interests are technology and telecommunications policy, government transparency and accountability, and the regulatory process.

Bryan Caplan

  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Bryan Caplan is a professor at George Mason University and senior scholar at the Mercatus Center. His primary research interests are public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, public opinion, economics of the family, genoeconomics, and Austrian economics.

Emily Chamlee-Wright

  • Mercatus Center Senior Research Scholar
  • Provost and Dean at Washington College
Emily Chamlee-Wright is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include development economics, cultural economics, and indigenous markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Tyler Cowen

  • General Director
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Tyler Cowen is the general director at the Mercatus Center and the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University.

Christopher Coyne

  • Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center
  • F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center
  • Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Christopher Coyne is Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also holds the title of F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center and he is a member of…

Veronique de Rugy

  • Senior Research Fellow
Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition, and financial privacy issues.

Eli Dourado

  • Research Fellow
Eli Dourado is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University with the Technology Policy Program.

Jerry Ellig

  • Senior Research Fellow
Jerry Ellig is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests include the federal regulatory process, economic regulation, and telecommunications regulation.

Jason J. Fichtner

  • Senior Research Fellow
Jason J. Fichtner is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. His primary research interests include Social Security, federal tax policy, federal budget policy, retirement security, and policy proposals to increase saving and investment.

Jack Goldstone

  • Senior Fellow
  • Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
  • Director, Center for Global Policy at George Mason University
Jack A. Goldstone is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Professor of public policy at George Mason University. His primary research interests are economic growth in the global economy, the…

Keith Hall

  • Senior Research Fellow
Keith Hall is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research interests at Mercatus include labor markets, labor market policy, and economic data.

Robin D. Hanson

  • Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University.

Steven Horwitz

  • Affiliated Senior Scholar
  • Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics, St. Lawrence University
Steven Horwitz is a Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics and department chair at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He completed his MA and PhD in economics at George Mason University and…

Noel D. Johnson

  • Research Fellow
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Noel Johnson is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. His research focuses on the historical origins of modern economic growth.

Garett Jones

  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, Mercatus Center
  • Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Garett Jones is a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the microfoundations of economic growth.

Arnold Kling

  • Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar
  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
  • Former Economist, Federal Reserve and Freddie Mac
Arnold Kling is an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he is also a member of the Financial Markets Working Group. He draws on his experience at Freddie Mac and the Federal Reserve to…

Mark Koyama

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Mark Koyama is Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Mercatus Center Senior Scholar. Professor Koyama earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Peter Leeson

  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, George Mason University
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Peter T. Leeson is BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism and Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for the Advanced Study of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and…

Kevin McCabe

  • Mercatus Center Scholar
  • Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University
Kevin McCabe is a scholar at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics and law at George Mason University. His primary research interests are neuroeconomics, experimental economics, economic systems design, and social change.

Patrick McLaughlin

  • Senior Research Fellow
Patrick A. McLaughlin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Maurice P. McTigue

  • Vice President for Outreach
  • Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Maurice McTigue is vice president for outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is director of the Mercatus Center's Government Accountability Project and a member of its Spending and Budget Initiative and State and Local Policy Project.

Matthew Mitchell

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Adjunct Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Matthew Mitchell is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the lead scholar on the Project for the Study of American Capitalism. His primary research interests include economic freedom and economic growth, public choice…

John Morrall

  • Affiliated Senior Scholar
John Morrall is an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests are regulatory impact analysis, benefit-cost analysis, and regulatory reform and oversight.

Andrew Morriss

  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • D. Paul Jones, Jr. & Charlene Angelich Jones Chairholder of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law
Andrew P. Morriss is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests are energy issues, environmental regulation, and the development of offshore financial centers.

Eileen Norcross

  • Senior Research Fellow
Eileen Norcross is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include fiscal federalism and institutions, state and local governments, and economic development.

Sarah Nutter

  • Senior Scholar
  • Associate Professor, School of Management, George Mason University
Sarah Nutter is a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center and an associate professor at the George Mason University School of Management. Her primary research interests include the impact of taxes and tax structures on individuals and businesses.

John Nye

  • Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy, Mercatus Center
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University
John Nye holds the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests include European economic history and new institutional economics.

Hester Peirce

  • Senior Research Fellow
Hester Peirce is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Peirce's primary research interests relate to the regulation of the financial markets.

Margaret Polski

  • Affiliate Research Fellow at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
Margaret M. Polski is an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include innovation, growth, and regulation.

Russell Roberts

  • Affiliated Senior Scholar
Russell Roberts is a Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Dr. Roberts is the host of the weekly podcast series EconTalk, and he blogs at Cafe Hayek.

Hilton Root

  • Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar
  • Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy at George Mason University
Hilton Root is an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center and professor of public policy at George Mason University. His primary research interests are international economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian affairs.

William Ruger

  • Affiliated Scholar, Mercatus Center
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas State University - San Marcos
William P. Ruger is an assistant professor in the political science department at Texas State University. He has been an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University since 2008.

Anthony B. Sanders

  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance
  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
Anthony B. Sanders is a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center and the Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance at the School of Management at George Mason University. His primary research interests include financial institutions and capital markets with particular…

Houman Shadab

  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
  • Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
Houman B. Shadab is a member of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests are financial law and regulation including areas such as hedge funds and derivatives.

Vernon Smith

  • Mercatus Center Fellow
  • Professor of Economics and Law, Chapman University
  • Board Member, Mercatus Center
Vernon Smith is a fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He also serves on the Mercatus Center's Board of Directors.

Jason Sorens

  • Affiliated Scholar, Mercatus Center
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Buffalo (SUNY)
Jason Sorens is an assistant professor in the political science department at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He has been an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University since 2008. …

Virgil Storr

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Director of Graduate Student Programs, Mercatus Center
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Virgil Storr is a senior research fellow and director of graduate student programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is a research associate professor of economics and the Don C. Lavoie research fellow in the program in…

Thomas Stratmann

  • Mercatus Center Scholar
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Thomas Stratmann is a scholar at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. His primary research interests are political economy, fiscal policy, law and economics, health economics, and experimental economics.

Daniel Sutter

  • Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar
  • Professor of Economics, Troy University
Daniel Sutter is an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests include the economics of the weather.

Alexander Tabarrok

  • Mercatus Center Research Fellow
  • Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics, George Mason University
  • Research Director, The Independent Institute
Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of research for The Independent Institute. He is the co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog MarginalRevolution and…

Adam Thierer

  • Senior Research Fellow
Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University with the Technology Policy Program. His primary research interests are technology, media, Internet, and free speech policy issues, with a particular focus on online child…

Gordon Tullock

  • Emeritus Professor of Law, George Mason University
Gordon Tullock is an emeritus professor of law and economics at George Mason University.

J. W. Verret

  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
  • Senior Scholar
  • Assistant Professor, George Mason University School of Law
J.W. Verret is a member of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center and an assistant professor at George Mason University School of Law. His primary research interests are corporate governance, securities regulation, and executive compensation.

Richard Wagner

  • Hobart R. Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Richard E. Wagner is Hobart R. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His primary research interests include public finance, macroeconomics, and political economy.

Lawrence H. White

  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University
  • Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Lawrence H. White is a professor of economics at George Mason University. His primary research interests include monetary theory and policy, history of banking and financial institutions, and central banking.

Lawrence J. White

  • Member, Financial Markets Working Group
  • Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business
  • Deputy Chair of the Economics Department at New York University's Stern School of Business
Lawrence J. White is a member of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests include financial regulation, antitrust, network industries, international banking, and applied microeconomics.

Bob Williams

  • Mercatus Center Visiting Fellow
Bob Williams is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center State and Local Policy Project. His research interests include fiscal and tax policies, election reform and disaster preparedness.

Richard Williams

  • Director of Policy Research
Richard Williams is the director of policy research at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests are risk analysis, benefit-cost analysis, regulation, food safety and nutrition, and excise taxes.

Bruce Yandle

  • Mercatus Center Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics
  • Dean Emeritus, Clemson College of Business and Behavioral Sciences
Bruce Yandle is a distinguished adjunct professor of economics with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His primary research interests are public choice, regulation, and free market environmentalism. He is dean emeritus of the Clemson College of Business and…

Todd Zywicki

  • Mercatus Center Senior Scholar
  • GMU Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
  • Senior Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Todd Zywicki is a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center and a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. His primary research interests are consumer credit regulation, bankruptcy, credit cards, and mortgages.