Presented with Acton Institute's Novak Award, Sept. 8, 2022.
Here is a link to my Calihan Lecture, given at the award ceremony.

Current appointments:

• Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University;
• Lecturer, Busch School of Business, The Catholic University of America

Professional Roles:

• Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Program at GMU Economics;
• Co-editor, CL Press (a Fraser Institute project);
• Co-curator, Just Sentiments (a Liberty Fund project)

Education:

• Phd in economics, George Mason University (defended and conferred December 2017).​​ 

 
​Research interests:

• Eighteenth-century British moral philosophy and political economy; Adam Smith; David Hume; history of liberalism; the role of theology in the history of economic thought; ethics and economics; economic methodology.

Contact:

• Personal email: ewmatson@gmail.com
• Work email: ematson@mercatus.gmu.edu

Social Media

• Twitter: @erikwmatson

Link to my CV.

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