Erik W. Matson
Dr. Erik W. Matson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Program in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. Dr. Matson also teaches as a Lecturer at The Catholic University of America's Busch School of Business and serves as an Online Lecturer in Economics at The King's College. Dr. Matson received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in December, 2017 and conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University. His research revolves around eighteenth-century British moral philosophy and political economy, the role of theology and ethics in economic thought, economic methodology, and the history of liberalism and its great great thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume. Dr. Matson has a significant amount of publications in a variety of forms such as journal articles, book reviews, chapters in edited volumes, and online publications.