Current appointments:

• Gibbons Fellow in Economics, The Catholic University of America
• Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Professional Roles:

• Co-Director of the Adam Smith Program at GMU Economics;
• Co-editor, CL Press (a Fraser Institute project);
• Co-editor, Just Sentiments (libertarianism.org)​

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: [email protected]
• Work email: [email protected]

Social Media

• Twitter/X handle: @erikwmatson

Link to my CV.

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