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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.
David M. Primo
Associate Professor of Political Science and Business Administration, University of Rochester
David M. Primo is a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center and an associate professor of political science and business administration at the University of Rochester. His current research focuses on the value of legislative “pork” for reelection, the politics of judicial appointments, and the connection between formal models and data analysis.
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.
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.
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 received his A.B. in economics and philosophy from The University of Michigan.
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 federal fiscal policy, entitlements, demographic change, economic stimulus, financial market regulation, and health care reform.
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.
Andrea Castillo
Program Associate
Andrea Castillo is a program associate at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Kelsey Pasquarell
Program Associate, SBI
Kelsey Pasquarell is a program associate for Spending and Budget Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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 Behavioral Sciences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Robin L. Walker
Associate Director of Outreach
Robin Walker is associate director of Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is responsible for connecting Mercatus scholars and their research to federal policy makers, conveying new ideas to address current policy challenges.
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 increase understanding of monetary policy, the regulation “anomaly,” and the inside workings of America's federal financial institutions.
Robert E. Raffety
Associate Director for Policy Research
Adjunct Professor, George Mason University School of Law and Department of International and Public Affairs
Rob Raffety is associate director of the Regulatory Studies Program and the Government Accountability Project at the Mercatus Center 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.
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.
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 economics, and the economics of government-granted privileges to businesses.
