Christopher Coyne is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. He is the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and The Independent Review. He also serves as the Book Review Editor for Public Choice.

Chris is the author or co-author of In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (2022, Independent Institute), Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror (2021, Stanford University Press), Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism (2018, Stanford University Press), Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (2013, Stanford University Press), Media, Development and Institutional Change (2009, Edward Elgar Publishing), and After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (2007, Stanford University Press).

He is also the co-editor of Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan (2018, Rowman & Littlefield International), Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order: New Applications of Market Process Theory (2017, Rowman & Littlefield International), Future: Economic Peril or Prosperity? (2016, Independent Institute), The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics (2015, Oxford University Press), Flaws and Ceilings: Price Controls and the Damage They Cause (2015, Institute for Economic Affairs), and The Handbook on the Political Economy of War (2011, Edward Elgar Publishing).

In addition, Coyne has authored numerous academic articles, book chapters, and policy studies.

In 2016 he was selected as a recipient of George Mason's University Teaching Excellence Award.

Chris's personal web page is www.ccoyne.com

Dr. Abigail Hall is an Associate Professor in Economics at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. She is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a non-partisan research and educational think tank based out of Oakland, California, an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and an affiliated scholar with the Foundation for Economic Education. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA in 2015. She graduated with a B.A. in economics and business administration with an additional concentration in mathematics from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Her broader research interests include Austrian Economics, Political Economy and Public Choice, Defense and Peace Economics, and Institutions and Economic Development. Her work includes topics surrounding the U.S. military and national defense, including, domestic police militarization, arm sales, weapons as foreign aid, the cost of military mobilization, and the political economy of military technology. Dr. Hall has published some twenty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and policy analyses. Her book with co-author Christopher Coyne, Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism analyzes how foreign intervention’s impact on domestic political, social, and other institutions has implications for issues like police militarization, torture and surveillance. The book is under contract with Stanford University Press and will be released in spring 2018.

Dr. Hall is very active with media. Her popular press pieces have been featured in Forbes, Newsweek, the Huffington Post, the Washington Times, US News and World Report, among other outlets. She has given interviews to a variety of local, national, and international outlets including PBS and Fox Business regarding her research and other economic issues.