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About Me

About Me

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I am an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. I am also an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an affiliated scholar with the Foundation for Economic Education. I am a Senior Fellow at the Pegasus Institute in Louisville, Kentucky and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. I am a Non-Resident Fellow with Defense Priorities and a Public Choice and Public Policy Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. I earned my PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in 2015. 

My broader research interests include Austrian Economics, Political Economy and Public Choice, Defense and Peace Economics, and Institutions and Economic Development. My work includes topics surrounding militarism, the U.S. military, and national defense, including, domestic police militarizatio
n, domestic extremism, arm sales, weapons as foreign aid, the cost of military mobilization, and the political economy of military technology. I have written extensively on the domestic consequences of foreign intervention and the economics of propaganda. My current research relates to the economics of terrorism, illicit markets, and militarization. 

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