Erik Matson
Biography
Erik Matson is a senior research fellow for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a lecturer at the Busch School of Business, The Catholic University of America. He is the Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Program at GMU Economics, co-editor of the CL Press (a Fraser Institute project), co-curator of Just Sentiments (a Liberty Fund project), and leader of The New Whiggery Fellowship program at the Institute of Religion & Democracy.
Matson earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University and his research focuses on eighteenth-century British moral philosophy and political economy, Adam Smith, David Hume, the history of liberalism, the role of theology in the history of economic thought, ethics and economics, and economic methodology.
