Christopher Coyne

Dr. Christopher J. Coyne is Associate Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He holds a PhD and an MA in Economics from George Mason University, a BS in Business Administration from Manhattan College, and is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship. 

Coyne specializes in Austrian economics, economic development, emerging democracies, postwar and disaster reconstruction, political economy, and social change. He has published numerous books, including How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite (Independent Institute, 2024), In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (Independent Institute, 2022), and Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (Stanford University Press, 2013). 

He is a prolific contributor to scholarly journals, has published a multitude of policy briefs, has appeared as a guest on the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs podcast, and has written for the Daily Caller, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and other media outlets. 

He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Austrian Economics and Co-Editor of the Independent Review. He is Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP), a member of the Board of Scholars for the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, a Senior fellow at the Independent Institute, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Previously, he was a Hayek Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and worked in the internal consulting services at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

For further publications by Coyne, visit his website.