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 a Senior 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. 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 militarization, domestic extremism, arm sales, weapons as foreign aid, the cost of military mobilization, and the political economy of military technology (e.g., unmanned aerial systems, nuclear weapons, etc.). I have written extensively on the domestic consequences of foreign intervention and the economics of propaganda. My current research relates to contemporary nuclear weapons, the economics of peace, and U.S. intervention in Latin America.
