Meg Tuszynski

Meg Tuszynski

Full-Time Faculty

Research Assistant Professor, Managing Director, Bridwell Institute

Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom Business Economics

Email

mtuszynski@smu.edu

Office

Crow 282C

CV

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Education

PhD, Economics, George Mason University

Biography

Meg is the Assistant Director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom, and is also a Research Assistant Professor with the Bridwell Institute. Her research focuses primarily on the determinants and correlates of economic freedom. A second, but related, strand of research focuses on potential for private, philanthropic organizations to provide viable alternatives to public poverty relief programs. Before joining the Bridwell Institute, Meg was the Program Manager for the Spending and Budget Initiative at the Mercatus Center. She earned her PhD and MA in economics, and a dual BA in philosophy and economics, from George Mason University. Her research interests include Austrian Economics, Public Choice, New Institutional Economics, and Political Economy.

Research

Austrian Economics
Public Choice
New Institutional Economics
Political Economy


Publications

“Targeted State Economic Development Incentives and Entrepreneurship” (with Dean Stansel) Forthcoming in the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.

 

“Samaritan's Dilemmas, Wealth Redistribution, and Polycentricity” (with Richard Wagner) Forthcoming in the Handbook on Eminent Post-War Economists.

 

Is Arkansas Prepared for the Next Economic Downturn” (with Dean Stansel and David Mitchell) Forthcoming as an ACRE Policy Review.

 

“Aging Populations and the Size of Government” (with Ryan Murphy) IREF Working Paper No. 201802.

 

“On the Feasibility of Public Employee Buyouts for Alleviating West Virginia's Fiscal Strain” Forthcoming as a Cardinal Institute Working Paper.

 

“Sub-National Economic Freedom: A Review and Analysis of the Literature” (with Dean Stansel) Forthcoming in the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.

 

“Economic Freedom in the United States, 1980 to the Present” (with Dean Stansel). Economic Freedom of the World 2016 Annual Report, pp. 257-272. 

 

"From mixed economy to entangled political economy: a Paretian social-theoretic orientation" (with Richard Wagner). Public Choice 164(1-2) 2015: 103-116.