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Abigail R. Hall

PhD economist, Assistant Prof at University of Tampa. Interests include defense and peace economics and public choice.

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

My broader research interests include Austrian Economics, Political Economy and Public Choice, Defense and Peace Economics, and Institutions and Economic Development. My 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. I am currently researching how foreign intervention adversely impacts domestic political, social, and other institutions.

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