• Current appointments: Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University; Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Program at GMU Economics; Online Course Lecturer, the King's College, New York.
  

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

 

• ​My research interests include: 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.

I've been awarded the 2022 Novak Award from the Acton Institute.

Link to my CV.

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

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