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Updates:

I'm currently (10/6/20 - 11/10/20) teaching a free online course, "Economics and the Pursuit of Happiness," with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Part of their new PPE Academy Live.
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• Here is Lecture 4 of the course: "The Contest of Ideas: Free to Choose?" Topics discussed include the nature of liberty, J.S. Mill, Pope Leo XIII, school choice, school voucher programs, the effect of school choice on diversity, racial stratification.
• Here is Lecture 3 of the course: "The Contest of Ideas: Keynes and Hayek." Topics discussed include the history of Keynesianism, Keynes's theory of aggregate demand, "The End of Laissez Faire," Hayek's Road to Serfdom, "The Use of Knowledge in Society."
• Here is Lecture 2 of the course: "Moral Dimensions of Property and Trade." This lecture focuses on Aquinas and Adam Smith on wealth, happiness, justice, and property.
• Here is Lecture 1 of the course: "Political Economy and Public Choice." Topics discussed include the origins and character of commercial society; political vs. economic freedom; Milton Friedman; public choice; James Buchanan.

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Here is a recent online lecture (9/12/20), initially presented at The Invisible Hand Seminar at GMU:

•  ​"Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Butler, and Kames: The Tradition Behind Smith's Commercial Humanism," (now part of "Teaching Intellectual History" hub at Institute of Intellectual History at University of St. Andrews.)

• Current academic appointment: Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University; Deputy Director of Adam Smith Program at GMU Department of Economics.
• Additional affiliations: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI); Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI); The King's College, New York

• Education: Phd in economics, George Mason University (defended December 2017).​​ ​
• ​Research interests: Adam Smith; David Hume; eighteenth-century British political economy;  British liberal tradition.

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Contact: ewmatson@gmail.com

Link to my CV.

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