Author: William Easterly

Abigail Hall-Blanco is Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Florida and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a non-partisan research and educational think tank based in Oakland, California. She is an affiliated scholar with the Foundation for Economic Education. Blanco earned her Ph D in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in 2015. Her broader research interests include Austrian economics, political economy and public choice, defence and peace economics, and institutions and economic development. Her work includes topics surrounding the US military and national defence, including domestic police militarisation, arm sales, weapons as foreign aid, the cost of military mobilisation and the political economy of military technology. She is currently researching how foreign intervention adversely impacts domestic political, social and other institutions as well as pursuing additional research on policing in the US.