Mark Koyama is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Mercatus Center, Senior Scholar. Professor Koyama earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford. He previously lectured at the University of York and spent a year at the Political Theory Project at Brown Univer...
My research interest lies in cultural evolution. I draw on insights from economic history, experimental economics, and development economics. I am particularly interested in the co-evolution of informal and formal institutions and in the internalization of social norms.
Dr. Thomas C. Rustici is the Assistant Professor of Economics and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. For ten years he taught at the Fund for American Studies located at Georgetown University earning the title of Freedom Professor o...
Klein and coauthors have published a paper showing that “dry tinder” and several other special factors explain most of the out-sized Covid death toll in Sweden, compared to other Nordic countries. “Dry tinder” is a forest-fire metaphor to clarify how previous flu seasons affect the 2020 death toll. ...
Austrian Economics George Mason University is the premier place for the study of Austrian Economics by faculty, alumni, and graduate students. Mason offers courses, brown bag lunches, colloquia, and the seminars in Austrian Economics series. Past speakers include: Mancur Olson, James Buchanan, Israe...
George Mason University was the home of Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. Dr. Buchanan published ground breaking work in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy. He was the coauthor, with Gordon Tullock, of The Calculus of Consent and served as the Executive Director of the Center for the Stu...
Distinguished Faculty Emeriti Nobel Laureate James Buchanan served as the advisory general director of the Center for Study of Public Choice until his death in 2013. He is best known for developing the "public choice theory" of economics, which changed the way economists analyze economic and politic...
The Department of Economics is known for the following unique areas of specialization: Austrian Economics George Mason University is the premier place for the study of Austrian Economics by faculty, alumni, and graduate students. Mason offers courses, brown bag lunches, colloquia, and the seminars ...
