Abigail R. Hall Blanco
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Abigail Hall Blanco is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and an Associate Professor of Economics at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa. She received her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. Professor Hall is the author of scholarly articles in such journals as Public Choice, Defence and Peace Economics, Advances in Austrian Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, The Independent Review, Atlantic Economic Review, and The Journal of Private Enterprise. And, her popular articles have appeared in Newsweek, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The American Thinker, and the nationally-syndicated McClatchy-Tribune News Service. She is also the recipient of the William P. Snavley Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, Association of Private Enterprise Young Scholar Award (2013, 2014, 2015), and the Don Lavoie Memorial Essay Competition Award. Her work includes topics surrounding women's issues in business and the family, civil and economic liberty, the U.S. military and national defense, including, domestic police militarization, arms sales, weapons as foreign aid, and the political economy of military technology.
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Income Inequality & Wealth | Abby Hall Blanco on Stossel | November 8, 2016 |
The Surveillance State | Abigail Hall Blanco | June 11, 2015 |
Independent Review Articles | |
Cronyism | Winter 2018/19 |
The Drone Paradox | Summer 2018 |
Empire State of Mind | Fall 2016 |
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Commentary Articles | |
There Is No Chain Migration Problem | January 26, 2018 |
Wages of Awful Policy: Minimum Wage Hikes Cause Hundreds of Bus Boys to Lose Jobs at Red Robin | January 17, 2018 |
Trump Immigrant Rhetoric Relies on Statistical Outliers | November 13, 2017 |
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Beacon Blog Posts | |
Venezuela Goes Digital--It Won't Fix the Problem | January 15, 2021 |
Voice, Loyalty, Exit, and BLM | January 13, 2021 |
France’s New Organ Registry and the New Paternalism | December 7, 2017 |
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