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...
Caleb Petitt is a second-year PhD student at George Mason University. He earned a BS in economics and a minor in data analysis at George Mason University. His research interests include institutional economics, economics of religion, and Smithian Political Economy.
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...
Polarization. It is a familiar word these days, often used to describe the state of American society. Defined as a division between two sharply distinct opposites, the term frequently arises now in the context of politics and popular opinions on a host of societal topics. While the effects of t...
Each year the Acton Institute selects one person worldwide who earned his or her PhD in the past five years to be awarded the Novak Award, named for Michael Novak. The 2022 Novak Award was awarded to Erik Matson, who received his PhD from the George Mason University Department of Economics in 2017. ...
Economics Assistant Professor Jonathan Schulz and Joseph Henrich, a collaborator at Harvard University, have been awarded a $2.54 million research grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the important factors that promote liberty, free markets, and prosperity. Assistant Professor Dr. Jon...
