Three people on the newly released Forbes list of “30 Under 30” – Forbes‘s list of the 30 most influential people in 2016, under the age of 30, in American law and policy – are affiliated with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. That’s a full ten percent from Mercatus alone!
Two (Andrea Castillo and Chris Koopman) are outstanding scholars who work directly for Mercatus; the third (Liya Palagashvili) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY-Purchase, a Law & Econ Fellow at NYU’s Classical Liberal Institute, and an Affiliated Scholar at Mercatus. While pursuing her PhD in Econ at GMU Liya was a Mercatus PhD fellow. I boast that I – along with my colleagues Pete Boettke, Chris Coyne, and Pete Leeson – served on Liya’s dissertation committee.
(Note to Liya: I boast also that mine was among the voices that beseeched you to pursue a career as an economist rather as a lawyer – I am glad successfully so!)
