Who we are

Directors

Mario Rizzo

Mario Rizzo is the Director of the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy in the Department of Economics. He is also the Co-Director of the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University School of Law. He has been a law and economics fellow at Yale Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. He teaches a yearly seminar at the NYU Law School called “Classical Liberalism.” He is the author of many articles in economics and in law journals. He is the coauthor of  Austrian Economics Re-Examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance. Professor Rizzo’s current research is focused on new or soft paternalism, behavioral economics, and the economic theory of rationality. He is completing a book,  Puppets and Puppet Masters: Rationality, Behavioral Economics and New Paternalism, for Cambridge University Press.

His CV is available here.

https://works.bepress.com/mario_rizzo

David Harper

David Harper is a specialist in institutional economics and the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation. He has more than thirty years of experience in economic research and public policy. He is currently Clinical Professor of Economics at New York University and is Co-Director of the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy. His main research interest is in the interconnection among entrepreneurship, innovation, economic development and institutions (widely defined to include legal, political, social and cultural rules). He teaches graduate courses in economic development and the economic analysis of property and contract law. In the mid-1990s he was a chief analyst in the New Zealand Treasury.

https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/davidharper/

Sanford Ikeda

Sanford Ikeda is a Professor of Economics at Purchase College of the State University of New York and a Visiting Scholar at New York University.  He has lectured in North America, Europe, and Japan, and has published in Forbes and National Review Online, while his scholarly publications have appeared in The Southern Economic Journal, The Review of Austrian Economics, Environmental Politics, The Independent Review, The American Journal of Economics & Sociology, Cosmos + Taxis, and Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines.  In addition to his  book, Dynamics of the Mixed Economy (Routledge), he has contributed entries for The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (on Robert Moses) and for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (on Jane Jacobs, rent seeking, and interventionism). Dr. Ikeda’s current research is on the relation between cities, social cooperation, and entrepreneurial development.

Luc Marcest

Luc Marest is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Queens College, CUNY.  His research interests include monetary theory and policy, finance and financial markets. His career started in France at Bouygues, one of the world’s largest construction companies where he was a project manager. After having graduated from Yale School of Management, he worked as a trader for Worldco, LLC.  Luc Marest holds a Master’s degree in civil engineering from L’Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, Paris, France, an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the City University of New York, the Graduate Center.

Maria Pia Paganelli

Maria Pia Paganelli works on Adam Smith, David Hume, 18th century monetary theories, and the links between the Scottish Enlightenment and behavioral economics. She is co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith, served as the Vice President of the History of Economic Society and as the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

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Shruti Rajagopalan

Shruti Rajagopalan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College. She earned her Ph.D. in economics in 2013 from George Mason University. Shruti’s broad area of interest is the economic analysis of comparative legal and political systems. Her research interests specifically include law and economics, public choice theory, and constitutional economics.

Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews, and books. She also enjoys writing in the popular press and has published opinion editorials on Indian political economy in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Mint, The Hindu: Business Line, and The Indian Express.

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Joseph T. Salerno
Joseph T. Salerno is professor of economics at Pace University, academic vice president of the Mises Institute and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He holds the John V. Denson II Endowed Professorship in the economics department at Auburn University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University.

Salerno specializes in monetary theory and policy, international economics and the history of economic thought. He has authored or edited several books, including Money: Sound and Unsound, and has published numerous articles in academic journals and scholarly books. He has also testified before Congress several times.

Paola Suarez is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at George Mason University, where she also received her BS in Economics in 2012 and her MA in Economics in 2014. She is a visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Economics at New York University, a Classical Liberal Institute Fellow at New York University School of Law, and a Mercatus Dissertation Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her research interests include economics of marriage and the family, economic development, public choice, law and economics, and Austrian economics.