Join #McConnellCenter scholars for a presentation from Dr Blanco explaining the importance of Hayek's work and how to understand it in modern times.

Abby Hall Blanco is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She is a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. She is a Non-Resident Fellow with Defense Priorities and a Public Choice and Public Policy Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Hall's work includes topics surrounding militarism, security, and national defense. She has written extensively on issues related to foreign intervention and institutional change and military technologies. Her coauthored books include "Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism" and "Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror," with Stanford University Press, "The Political Economy of Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the War on Terror" with Cambridge University Press, and "How To Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite" with the Independent Institute.

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