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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…

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.

Antony Davies

  • Associate Professor of Economics, Duquesne University
Antony Davies is associate professor of economics at Duquesne University and Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar at George Mason University. His primary research interests include econometrics, public policy, and economic psychology.

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.

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.