Notes on Contributors
Simon Bilo is Independent Economist in the USA. His current research centers on questions of monetary non-neutrality, also known as “Cantillon Effects” after the eighteenth-century economist Richard Cantillon.
Bilo is interested in Business Cycle Theory, History of Economic Thought, International Economics, Austrian Economics, and Monetary Economics.John A. Dove is Manuel H. Johnson Professor of Economics in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, USA. He received his Ph.D. from West Virginia University in 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at Troy University, Dove was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Mercer University. His main areas of research include public economics and political economy. Dove's academic work has appeared in such scholarly outlets as The Journal of Comparative Economics, The Journal of Macroeconomics, Public Choice, Economics of Governance, Business & Politics, and The Journal of Institutional Economics, among others.
Keith Jakee is Associate Professor at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, USA. His research tends to fall into one of three areas, political economy, industrial organization, and entrepreneurship. Before coming to the Honors College, he held tenured appointments at Monash University and in the Business School of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), both in Melbourne, Australia. Jakee received his Ph.D. and MA at George Mason University, where his dissertation research was supervised by Tyler Cowen, Richard Wagner, Tom R. Burns, and the Nobel Laureate, James Buchanan.
Arielle John is Senior Research Fellow, Associate Director of Academic and Student Programs, and Senior Fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, USA. Prior to joining the Mercatus Center, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College from 2014-2015, and then worked as the advisor to the Minister of Public Administration and Communications in the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Stephen M. Jones-Young is Economist at the Coast Guard, USA. Prior to joining the Coast Guard, Jones-Young earned his MA in Economics at George Mason University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University.
Stephane Kouassi is Graduate Student in sociology at Goethe University, Germany. Kouassi is also an Adam Smith Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
David S. Lucas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, USA. His research interests include entrepreneurship, institutions, organizations, and strategy, with an emphasis on social issues like poverty and homelessness.
Olga Nicoara is Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Business and Economics at Ursinus College, USA. She earned her Ph.D. and MA degrees in economics from George Mason University and her BSc degree in International Economics and Business from Bucharest University of Economics. Nicoara’s scholarly interests are in the fields of Economic Development, Political Economy, Austrian Economics, Cultural Economics, Institutional Economics, and Entrepreneurship Economics.
Liya Palagashvili is Assistant Professor of Economics at State University of New York—Purchase, USA. She is also a research fellow with NYU Law. For the 2018-2019 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Pala- gashvili’s research is on political economy and applied public policy. She focuses on two main research areas: investigating the regulatory and public policy environment for technology startups and questions of governance, polycentricity, and the role of external influence and aid on institutions.
Diana W. Thomas is Associate Professor of Economics at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, USA. She is also Director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University. She was previously an Assistant Professor of economics at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.