Research Scholars

Steven Hail is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, with a Ph.D. from Flinders University, and a M.Sc from the London School of Economics. During the 1990s, he lived and worked in London, published a number of economics text […]

Sandy Brian Hager is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his PhD in 2013 from York University and worked previously as

Mitch Green is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has taught courses in political economy, economic statistics and applied microeconomics at Franklin u0026amp; Marshall College and will offer seminars in economic history and history of economic thought at Portland State University. He currently serves as board member for the Association for

Scott Fullwiler is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. He previously held the James A. Leach Endowed Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics and is the Social Entrepreneurship Program Co-Director at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. There he

Jesus Felipe is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has been Advisor in the Asian Development Bank’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department since 2012. Between 2007 and 2011, he was Principal Economist and Lead Economist in the Central and West Asia Department; and previously, he held different positions in the

Lorenzo Esposito is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an economist at the Bank of Italy (Milan). Lorenzo graduated from Bocconi University (Milan) in Political Economy with a dissertation on classical political economy in 1995. In 1998 he started to work for the Bank of Italy in the area of financial

Alexander X. Douglas is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. Dr. Douglas completed his undergraduate studies (BA/BMus) at the Australian National University and earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. He specializes in early modern philosophy, recently with a

Erik Dean is a research scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an instructor of economics at Portland Community College. He has presented papers on heterodox microeconomic theory, institutional economics, and methodology at meetings for the Association for Institutional Thought and the Union for Radical Political Economics, and contributed a chapter to the recent

James M. Cypher is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a Research Professor in the Doctoral Program in Development Studies (UAED) at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico).  Dr. Cypher is an economist and specialist in Latin American Development. He is the author of The Process of Economic Development (Routledge,

Jon Calame is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He lives in rural Maine, where he coordinates the Affordable Heat Consortium, a non-profit dedicated to reducing winter heating costs in Down East Maine. He was a co-founding Partner and Operations Officer of Minerva Partners, a non-profit consultancy group working internationally to support cultural