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2010-2011 Humane Studies Fellows

The Institute for Humane Studies is pleased to present the 2010-2011 Humane Studies Fellows and their research interests.

Humane Studies Fellow	Research Interest
Hovannes Abramyan University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2012	Race and ideology in American political psychology.
Jaime Acosta-Margain Rice University PhD, Economics, 2012	The relationship between government housing policies, housing prices, and household finances.
Brandon Adkins Georgetown University JD, Law, 2011	The relationship between copyright law and First Amendment protected expression.
Puja Ahluwalia Stanford University JD, Law and Economics, 2011	The law and economics of financial crisis and regulation.
Robert Anderson George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2010	The origins of trade, with particular attention to the role of immigration on movement away from autarky.
Gordon Arlen University of Chicago PhD, Political Science, 2013	Classical liberals' reaction to the Cold War in America and Britian, and their impact on current intellectual thought.
Andrea Asoni University of Chicago PhD, Economics, 2011	The relationships between institutions, human capital, and entrepreneurship.
Scott Atherley McGill University PhD, Sociology, 2014	Political and fiscal sociology.
Nazli Avdan Duke University PhD, Political Science, 2011	How states respond to new security threats stemming from cross-border human mobility.
Alex Baia University of Texas, Austin PhD, Philosophy, 2011	A defense of presentism, the ontological thesis that only present things exist.
Joshua Bandoch University of Notre Dame PhD, Political Science, 2012	The importance of a free exchange of ideas and goods in constituting a free society in the writings of Montesquieu.
Elizabeth Barringer University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2013	The relationship between utopianism and liberalism.
Saadullah Bashir Claremont Graduate University PhD, Economics, 2012	The underlying causes -- both institutional and policy-related -- of the global financial crisis, the mechanisms through which it spread across the different financial markets, and whether the current reform agenda will help prevent future crises from occurring.
Christopher Baylor University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2011	How interest groups influence ideological change, and what effect this has on government policy.
Teresa Bejan Yale University PhD, Political Science, 2013	How moral and civic education combine to form responsible citizens, with a focus on the role of tolerance.
Jonathan Berry Columbia University JD, Law, 2011	Employment law and labor law with an eye to understanding how labor relations can better promote freedom of association.
Joseph Bingham University of Chicago JD, Law, 2011	How binding arbitration agreements are treated under the law.
Brian Blase George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2011	The economics of healthcare policy.
J. Bohren University of California, San Diego PhD, Economics, 2011	How markets aggregate and disseminate information.
Carlos Bravo University of Chicago PhD, History, 2011	How do dictatorships endure? What are politics like in an authoritarian regime? And what is the role of elections in such non-democratic systems?
Michael Breidenbach University of Cambridge PhD, History, 2013	The relationship between patriotism and cosmopolitanism.
Benjamin Bryan Bowling Green State University PhD, Philosophy, 2015	Justifying contemporary political and moral ideas of liberty through the ethics of Aristotle.
Jeremy Buck University of Arkansas PhD, Education, 2012	Education policy, including vouchers, charter schools, testing, accountability, and how the law addresses education.
Per Bylund University of Missouri, Columbia PhD, Economics, 2012	The sources of emergent social orders, with particular attention to the organizational micro-foundations for societal and cultural orders.
Meina Cai University of Wisconsin, Madison PhD, Political Science, 2012	How local governments and private entrepreneurs in China have promoted private property rights informally and formally to secure private investment.
Brianna Cardiff Stanford University PhD, Economics, 2013	The implications of specific policies and the political economy present in the institutions that create policy, with particular attention to tax policy and tax salience.
Andrew Chamberlain University of California, San Diego PhD, Economics, 2014	The combined effect of federal taxation and spending.
Rachel Chaney University of California, Davis PhD, History, 2011	The history of German Anabaptist immigrants to colonial Pennsylvania and how their position as non-resistants affected their political rights and individual liberty under the British and American systems.
Christy Chapin University of Virginia PhD, History, 2011	The positive role of insurance companies in the development of health care in the twentieth century.
Kathryn Ciano George Mason University JD, Law, 2011	Legal history, and the balance of interests and rights involved in the law surrounding insurance.
Jeffrey Clemens Harvard University PhD, Economics, 2011	The effects of taxation and government programs on private economic activity; the influence of the political process on federal and state government budgets.
Alexander Cohen University of Virginia PhD, Philosophy, 2011	The relationship between the flourishing individual and the political community, involving questions about whether persons have reason to obey the law.
Christopher Cotter Vanderbilt University PhD, Economics, 2015	Economic development, comparative institutions, and economic growth.
Matthew Cropp University of Vermont MA, History, 2011	The history of the development of credit unions.
Helen Dale University of Oxford DPhil, Law, 2011	Autonomy and self-realization in classical liberal thought, with particular attention paid to Robert Nozick, Joseph Raz, and F. A. Hayek.
Ashley Daly University of Michigan JD, Law, 2011	A number of legal issues, especially surrounding the First Amendment on the one hand (including religious liberty and election law reform), and takings on the other (including eminent domain and civil forfeiture).
Ryan Davis Harvard University PhD, Philosophy, 2015	Developing a philosophical account of political toleration and equality.
Allison Demeritt University of Washington PhD, Sociology, 2012	How best to address free-rider problems in creating cohesive, effective schools.
Deepa Dhume Harvard University PhD, Economics, 2011	International finance and international trade, as well as questions regarding commodities markets, asset pricing, and development economics.
Marcello Di Bello Stanford University PhD, Philosophy, 2012	The philosophical and epistemic foundations of evidence law, including how testimony, perception and memory contribute to the attainment of rationally justified beliefs.
Jonathan Dingel Columbia University PhD, Economics, 2013	The negative effects of trade barriers and why some firms lobby for protectionist measures.
Francis DiTraglia University of Cambridge PhD, Economics, 2012	Econometric theory, including semiparametric model selection from an information-theoretic standpoint, as well as issues in financial economics and quantitative economic history.
Phuong Doan University of Cambridge PhD, Economics, 2012	Creating and modeling new markets for private participation in public works; the role of privatization in economic development.
Dustin Donahue University of Missouri, Columbia PhD, Economics, 2013	The economics of government biofuels policies and the tax code surrounding these.
Zachary Donohew University of California, Santa Barbara PhD, Economics, 2011	How property rights regimes affect the allocation of natural resources, especially as regards water markets in the western United States.
Michael Douma Florida State University PhD, History, 2011	The history of Dutch immigrants to America, and their cultural and economic experience.
Benjamin Dyer Bowling Green State University PhD, Philosophy, 2011	The implications in political philosophy of gratitude.
Gabriel Ehrlich University of Michigan PhD, Economics, 2012	The economics of the housing market.
Emily Ekins University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2012	The impact of institutions on economic mobility and the relative effects of policies that increase economic mobilities compared with those that result in wealth transfers.
C. D. Evans City University of New York PhD, Philosophy, 2011	Philosophy of Law, including the history of legal positivism.
Patricio Fernandez Harvard University PhD, Philosophy, 2011	The role of rhetoric in judicial decision-making, and how courts can preserve liberty.
Asanga Fernando Harvard University PhD, Public Policy, 2014	How to promote and remove obstacles to rural credit markets for agriculture in developing countries.
Adam Fish University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Anthropology, 2012	How creative industries use participatory media to create cultural movements.
Mani Foroohar Columbia University MBA, Business, 2012	The economic and clinical impact of disparities between private enterprise and governmental institutions in the development and implementation of advances in medical technology.
Brian Fried Yale University PhD, Political Science, 2012	How political corruption harms individual liberty, and how to prevent such anti-democratic practices.
Sylvia Friedel University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2013	How political candidates can appeal to liberty-minded voters.
Sloane Frost University of Chicago MPP, Public Policy, 2011	How best to provide health care that balances concerns of equity, access, and cost.
Tim Ganser Harvard University PhD, Political Economy, 2012	The economics of poverty and development, and how best to alleviate or remove barriers to growth.
Jordan Gans-Morse University of California, Berkeley PhD, Political Science, 2011	The development of institutions for the protection of property rights in post-Communist countries.
Andrew Gimber	Macroeconomics, monetary economics, and economic history.
Daniel Gomez Gaviria University of Chicago PhD, Economics, 2011	The unexpected effects of government policies on firm behavior, innovation, the employment structure of firms, and welfare.
Joshua Gottlieb Harvard University PhD, Economics, 2012	How different aspects of housing and credit markets caused some regions to have different responses to low interest rates in the past decade.
Brendan Green Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Political Science, 2011	How competing conceptions of liberty have influenced America's stance toward other nations.
Ryan Griffiths McGill University PhD, Political Science, 2014	Sentimentalism in eighteenth-century political thought.
Alexander Hamilton University of Oxford PhD, Political Science, 2011	Understanding and quantifying the costs of government intervention into economic affairs.
Michael Hammer University of Georgia PhD, Public Administration, 2012	Organizations and the design of voluntary institutions for self-governance and the historical evolution of both the welfare and regulatory state.
Jennie Han University of Chicago PhD, Political Science, 2011	The importance of individual responsibility and moral agency in political and judicial thought.
Keith Hankins University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2013	How the nature of markets and gains from trade should be taken into account in conceptions of justice.
Fernando Hernandez Fradejas Universidad Rey Juan Carlos PhD, Economics, 2012	Business Cycle theory and the history of economic thought.
Benjamin Herscovitch University of Sydney PhD, Philosophy, 2011	A conception of political justice that limits the federal government with a Constitutional right to secede.
Benjamin Hertzberg Duke University PhD, Political Science, 2011	Religious tolerance, and how to reconcile the demands of a secular democracy with the demands of religion to participate in the public sphere.
Lisa Herzog University of Oxford PhD, Political Science, 2011	Political and Moral Philosophy of the 18th and 19th Century; the intersection of economics and philosophy.
James Hill King's College, London DPhil, Public Policy, 2012	Whether and in what ways inequality may be a matter of justice, and whether the state has a role in redistributing wealth.
Jonas Hjort University of California, Berkeley PhD, Economics, 2011	The sources, consequences, and potential remedies of misallocations of capital, intermediate inputs, and education, especially in Africa.
Thomas Hogan George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2011	Money and banking, including free banking, regulation, and monetary institutions.
Matthew Holbreich University of Notre Dame PhD, Political Science, 2011	Questions of autonomy and public freedom, especially in 18th and 19th Century continental philosophy and American political thought.
Christopher Holbrook University of Missouri, Columbia PhD, Political Science, 2013	The effects of government policies and institutions on the production of scientific advances in medical research.
Colin Hottman Columbia University PhD, Economics, 2014	How free trade promotes well-being.
Jeffrey Howard	The relationship between citizenship and education in a free society.
William Hubbard University of Chicago PhD, Economics, 2011	The economics of higher education attainment, including trends in educational attainment by men and women in the US and internationally, and the effects of growth in the benefits of higher education on labor force participation.
Lars Hvidberg Columbia University MA, Journalism, 2012	Freedom of expression, and the effects of technological change and social media on the political landscape.
Diana Ichpekova University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2012	How attitudes toward free markets and individual liberty are formed in post-Communist countries.
Dane Imerman Ohio State University PhD, Political Science, 2011	How trade liberalization counts as progress in international relations.
Laura Inglis University of Oxford PhD, History, 2010	The growth of judicial power in the United States after c. 1800, and the ways the judiciary has taken over many legislative functions.
Kyle Jackson George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2014	Austrian Economics, Public Choice, Economic History, and New Institutional Economics.
Taylor Jaworski University of Arizona PhD, Economics, 2014	How institutions shape individual behavior and affect economic performance, focusing on industrialization in the United States prior to the Civil War and in the antebellum period.
Serdar Kabaca University of British Columbia PhD, Economics, 2011	The effects of external financing and employment protections on labor and capital income.
Francois Kabore American University PhD, Economics, 2011	The relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation, and growth, especially in developing countries.
Braum Katz College of William and Mary BA, History & Philosophy, 2011	Metaethics with a special focus on non-cognitivist models.
Simon Kaye Queen Mary, University of London PhD, Political Science, 2012	A critique of deliberative democracy, and why decisions by democratic means should be limited.
Urmee Khan University of Texas, Austin PhD, Economics, 2011	The application of economic and game-theoretic principles to designing economic and political institutions with a particular focus on information and opinion aggregation.
Carl Kitchens University of Arizona PhD, Economics, 2012	Eminent domain and its effects on bargaining.
Magdalena Krajewska Brandeis University PhD, Political Science, 2011	How police use technology to identify citizens, and what effects this has on privacy.
Samuel Kukathas King's College, London DPhil, Philosophy, 2013	Philosophy of law, especially as regards whether there are objective limits to the law and whether the character of law is necessarily coercive.
Michelle Kundmueller University of Notre Dame PhD, Political Science, 2014	American Founders' conception of the separation of powers, and how the judiciary enforces the separation of powers upon itself.
Bradley Larsen Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Economics, 2013	The negative economic consequences of regulation, with a focus on occupational licensing and product certification.
Malcolm Lavoie McGill University LLB, Law, 2012	Comparative law and the economic and political interactions of legal institutions.
Daniel Layman University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD, Philosophy, 2013	The relationship between bias crime laws and the inviolability of individuals' thoughts and values.
Timothy Lee Princeton University PhD, Computer Science, 2013	Privacy and security policy in the context of the growth of rapid advances in computing technology and the use of the internet.
Jayme Lemke George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2012	Economic analysis of the property rights of women as a minority.
Joshua Levy New York University JD, Law, 2011	The effects of term limits for state legislators on government discretionary spending.
Brendan Livingston University of Arizona PhD, Economics, 2011	The economics of the private provision of public goods by nonprofit organizations.
Elena Llaudet Harvard University PhD, Government, 2013	How to limit the growth of government through, for example, term limits or restrictions on discretionary funds.
Jessica Lowe Princeton University PhD, History, 2012	The theory, meaning, and experience of liberty in Virginia in the 1790s.
Daniel MacDougall Saint Louis University PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011	The implications of Kant's Doctrine of Right for thinking about bioethics.
Grant Madsen University of Chicago PhD, History, 2011	The interplay between democratic practice and economic policy in the US from World War II to the 1980s.
Gideon Magnus University of Chicago PhD, Economics, 2011	Understanding the dynamics of a crash in the housing market.
Marisa Maleck University of Chicago JD, Law, 2011	The jurisprudence of the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Andrea Marchesetti London School of Economics & Political Science PhD, Economics, 2013	The economics of science and the history of government policies regarding science and science funding.
Benjamin Marx Columbia University PhD, Economics, 2012	Studying the economics of the voluntary sector, including private foundations and community foundations, theoretically, empirically, and through experimentation.
Anton Matytsin University of Pennsylvania PhD, History, 2012	The origin of Enlightenment ideas about limits of human knowledge and implications for understanding of how societies function.
Joshua McCabe University at Albany, State University of New York PhD, Sociology, 2014	Race and ethnic relations; labor economics and unions; urban studies; and socioeconomic studies of nongovernmental provision of order.
Alexander McCobin Georgetown University PhD, Philosophy, 2014	The ethical obligations of businesspeople in a free society.
Rory McDonald Stanford University PhD, Business, 2011	The institutions and structures that encourage and discourage entrepreneurship in a society, and the differential effects of market-based support for entrepreneurship through venture capital as against government-based support through agencies and programs.
Briana McGinnis Georgetown University PhD, Government, 2012	American immigration policy and its relationship to American values of liberty and personal responsibility.
John Menzies University of Oxford Mphil, Economics, 2011	How institutions and regulations affect the behavior of agents in the financial system.
Christopher Meredith Tulane University PhD, Philosophy, 2012	The importance of private property rights, and how claims that rich countries have an obligation to give to poor countries prove self-defeating.
Christopher Miller Yale University PhD, History, 2015	The history of the emergence of capitalism in Britain in the 18th and 19th Centuries, including the role of the Bank of England, joint-stock companies, and the legal and political framework of the time.
Ole Martin Moen University of Oslo PhD, Philosophy, 2012	The concept of human flourishing, and how flourishing can be upheld as a normative ideal.
William Murphy Syracuse University PhD, History, 2011	Challenging the dominant account of 18th century thought and origins of liberalism in America.
Justus Myers University of Pennsylvania PhD, Psychology, 2014	How to understand the mind's cognitive mechanisms that are responsible for irregularities and patterns of social, moral, and political behavior.
Paulo Natenzon Princeton University PhD, Economics, 2011	The nature of individual decision-making and its implications for our understanding of the market.
Alexander Nowrasteh London School of Economics & Political Science MA, Economics, 2012	The economic effects of immigration.
David Ortiz George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2015	The relationship between F.A. Hayek's assumptions about the nature of the mind and his political theory, economics, and philosophy of law.
Nicholas Owen University of Wisconsin, Madison PhD, Philosophy, 2014	Issues in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, including mental causation and self-deception.
Elise Passamani University of Oxford DPhil, Literary Studies, 2011	Narcissism and empathy in 17th Century French literature.
Allyson Pellissier California Institute of Technology PhD, Social Science, 2015	How cultural, social and political institutions affect markets.
Ricardo Perez Truglia Harvard University PhD, Economics, 2012	The political economy of income redistribution, and how increased inequality can sometimes lead to greater welfare.
Laura Phillips University of Virginia PhD, History, 2011	The rise of limitations on free enterprise during 19th and 20th century America.
Maxim Pinkovskiy Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Economics, 2013	The role of political economy in the operations of markets, and to quantify to what extent market imperfections can be traced to the operations of politics rather than to inherent properties of these markets.
Christopher Pope Washington University in St. Louis PhD, Political Science, 2013	The political foundations of constitutionalism, federalism, and the separation of powers.
Bogdan Rabanca New York University PhD, Philosophy, 2011	The morality and justifications of interfering with others' decisions in a paternalistic fashion.
Antonio Ramos University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Political Science, 2012	Judicial independence in new democracies, and the relationship between executive and judicial branches.
Lincoln Rathnam University of Toronto PhD, Political Science, 2014	John Locke's political thought; the relationship between Chinese and western political philosophy.
Stefano Recchia Columbia University PhD, Political Science, 2011	Why and under what conditions the United States seeks the endorsement of international organizations such as the United Nations before launching military operations abroad.
Julian Reif University of Chicago PhD, Economics, 2012	The effects of unobservable opportunity costs on information rent in contract auctions.
Regina Rini New York University PhD, Philosophy, 2011	Exploring morality in the marketplace.
Matthew Rippon Queen Mary, University of London PhD, Geography, 2011	The role and function of geographical indicators -- such as names of food and drink that can only be used by producers in a certain region -- in both regulated and free markets.
Gregory Roberts Yale University PhD, History, 2013	The origins of self-government and the rule of law in Italy.
Lamont Rodgers Tulane University PhD, Philosophy, 2012	Self-ownership, entitlement, utopianism and exploitation in the thought of Robert Nozick and G.A. Cohen.
Tino Sanandaji University of Chicago PhD, Public Policy, 2011	The government's role in the housing crisis, and how taxation discourages entrepreneurial activity.
Alexander Schwab Yale University JD, Law, 2011	Financing charter schools in the United States, and how state policies inhibit their growth.
Dmytro Sergeyev Columbia University PhD, Economics, 2012	Monetary policy and its effects on market functioning.
Dan Shahar University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2012	The climate change debate, and the philosophical underpinnings of environmental conflict resolution.
Parul Sharma Cornell University PhD, Economics, 2014	The effects of private education and investment in human capital, using India as a case study.
Kathleen Sheehan West Virginia University PhD, Economics, 2015	Monetary policy and inflation in developing countries.
Erin Sheley The George Washington University PhD, English Literature, 2015	Cultural conceptions of the various players in the criminal justice system -- offenders, police officers, prosecutors, and victims -- and their role in shaping the law in these areas.
Chae Hee Shin University of Chicago PhD/MD, Economics, 2012	How government-enforced cartels threaten competition.
Scott Shubitz Florida State University PhD, History, 2011	The intellectual and political history of opposition to progressive reforms in the US from the 1880s to the 1930s.
Daniel Silvermint University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2012	The agency and responsibilities - ethical and political - of victims of oppression.
Sarah Skowronski Loyola University, Chicago PhD, Political Science, 2011	The Scottish Enlightenment response to criticisms of commercial society.
Andrew Snow University of Calgary PhD, Political Science, 2013	Which institutional constraints most effectively and consistently limit state power across regimes.
David Splinter Rice University PhD, Economics, 2012	Estimating income mobility, inequality, and volatility.
Pamela Stubbart Wilson Columbia University Teacher's College PhD, Education, 2013	Moral arguments in favor of school choice and homeschooling.
Nicolette Sullivan California Institute of Technology PhD, Neuroscience, 2015	Using neuroscience to understand how we make decisions involving uncertainty and risk.
Jason Swadley Brown University PhD, Political Science, 2014	A defense of self-interest in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Ewa Szymanska University of Pennsylvania PhD, Psychology, 2011	The moral psychology of punishment and its implications for the criminal justice system.
Lauri Tahtinen University of Cambridge PhD, History, 2011	The relationship between ideology and imperialism, especially as regards Portuguese imperialism in the 16th Century.
David Tannenbaum University of California, Irvine PhD, Psychology, 2011	How policy paternalism illegitimately communicates advice from policymakers to the public.
Corey Tazzara Stanford University PhD, History, 2011	Political economy and economic history of Italy in the early modern period.
Jeffrey Thayne Brigham Young University MA, Psychology, 2012	Free will; altruism and ethical obligation; and the psychological underpinnings of views on human rights, legal obligations, and moral accountability.
Elizabeth Thill University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD, Classics, 2011	The portrayal of barbarians in Roman art and architecture, and its social and political consequences.
John Thrasher University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2014	The moral illegitimacy of the political redistribution of wealth.
Daniel Tirone University of Pittsburgh PhD, Political Science, 2011	The effects of foreign aid on economic growth, the development of democracy, and the likelihood of civil conflict in recipient nations.
Gaurav Tiwari Tufts University MA, International Relations, 2011	The role of property rights and entrepreneurship in developing countries.
Justin Tosi University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2013	The relationship between individual responsibility and criminal punishment.
Ugo Troiano Harvard University PhD, Economics, 2013	How the gradual acquisition of knowledge, through market processes, leads to development.
Michael Tseng University of California, Los Angeles PhD, Linguistics, 2014	The role of language in interacting with or structuring our perceptual and cognitive functions.
Gary Uzonyi University of Michigan PhD, Political Science, 2013	How leaders manipulate the idea of 'the common good' to grow government.
Kevin Vallier University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2011	How liberalism can be reconciled with expressions of faith in the public square.
Chad Van Schoelandt University of Arizona PhD, Philosophy, 2015	How coercion is only justified for ensuring that people have freedom, not ensuring all values.
Pavel Vasilyev Russian Academy of Sciences PhD, History, 2015	How drug addiction was constructed as a distinct social problem requiring government intervention.
Kristen Veblen London School of Economics & Political Science PhD, Law, 2012	The intersection of ethics and law in biotechnology and bioscience.
Philip Wallach Princeton University PhD, Political Science, 2012	The importance of the Founder's idea of separated powers in the contemporary world.
Xiaolu Wang Columbia University PhD, Sociology, 2012	How producers make decisions in a free market economy.
Daniel Waxman New York University PhD, Philosophy, 2015	Structuralist and nominalist strategies within the philosophy of mathematics.
Shawn Welnak Tulane University PhD, Philosophy, 2011	The relationship between conceptions of nature and politics in ancient Greek philosophy.
Danielle Wenner Rice University PhD, Philosophy, 2011	Whether or to what extent major theoretical justifications of democracy are able to account for large disparities between the premises upon which the theories are based and the empirical data regarding the cognitive, informational, and behavioral abilities and characteristics of voting populations.
Conor Williams Georgetown University PhD, Government, 2011	The proper role of religion in political regimes.
Jakub Wisniewski Queen Mary, University of London PhD, Political Economy, 2012	The government role in creating monopolies in free market economies.
Gregory Wolcott Loyola University, Chicago PhD, Philosophy, 2011	How to respond ethically to human need.
Alexander Wolitzky Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Economics, 2011	Comparing economic institutions that lead to cooperation, rather than conflict.
Owen Yeates Stanford University JD, Law, 2011	Exploring John Locke's account of religious freedom, toleration, and violence, and how it could bear on today's policy debates.
David Youngberg George Mason University PhD, Economics, 2011	The effects of different methods of encouraging technological innovation, including patents and prizes.
Kirill Zavodov University of Cambridge PhD, Economics, 2012	Finding bottom-up, market-based solutions to environmental conflicts.
Boliang Zhu Columbia University PhD, Political Science, 2011	How globalization can contribute to a free market society.

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