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Social Change Network of Scholars

Both the Social Change Project and Global Prosperity Initiative depend on a multidisciplinary network of innovative scholars who pursue cutting-edge research agendas. Listed below are the primary fields the Projects rely on.  Click on the specific field to learn which scholars are contributing to our knowledge of Social Change:

Anthropology

Pascal Boyer, Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory, Anthropology, Washington University

Jean E. Ensminger, Chair, the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Anthropology, California Institute of Technology

Carolyn Lesorogol, Anthropology, Washington University

John Tooby, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Business

Benito Arrunada, Business Organization, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Saras D. Sarasvathy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics, Darden School Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

Cognitive Sciences

Leda Cosmides, Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbarba

Merlin Donald, Head, Psychology Department, Queen's University

Robert O. Kurzban, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Nelson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Philip Tetlock, Organizational Behavior, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Turner, English, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Institute Professor,
Dean of Arts & Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

Economics

Paul Dragos Aligica, Associate Professor at the National School of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest and Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Indianapolis

Lee Alston, Professor of Economics, Political Science, Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Peter J. Boettke, Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy; Faculty Director of the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center; Professor of Economics, George Mason University

James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics; Advisory General Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy; Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Emily Chamlee-Wright, Professor of Economics, Beloit College

Tyler Cowen, General Director, Mercatus Center; Holbert Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Robert Cull, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Paul David, Director of Knowledge Networks and Institutions for Innovation Program, the Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford

Pauline Dixon, Research Coordinator at the E.G. West Centre at the University of Newcastle.

Thrainn Eggertsson, Economics and Business Administration, University of Iceland

Marcel Fafchamps, Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Economics, University of Oxford

Avner Greif, MacArthur Foundation Fellow; Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, Economics, Stanford University

Gregory Grossman, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, School of Humanities and Science, Stanford University

Philip Hoffman, Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology

Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz Associate Professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT

Lynne Kiesling, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Northwestern University, Interdisciplinary Center for Experimental Economics

Sukkoo Kim, Faculty Research Fellow in the Development of the Economy Program, National Bureau of Economic Research; Economics, Washington University

Dan Klein, Economics, George Mason University

Richard Langlois, Economics, University of Connecticut

Gary D. Libecap, Anheuser Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Economics and Law Research Associate; Director, Karl Eller Center at the Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona

Chris Mantzavinos, Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Project Group in Bonn; Privatdozent in Economics at the University of Bayreuth

Bertin Martens, European Commission and Visiting Research Fellow at the CLEA Multidisciplinary Center, Economics, Free University of Brussels (VUB)

Kevin McCabe, Professor of Economics and Law, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University

Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Economics, Northwestern University

Larry Neal, Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate in Economics; Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences, Economics, Washington University; Hoover Institution's Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow, Stanford University

John V.C. Nye, Associate Professor of History and Economics, Center for Political Economy Fellow, Washington University

Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Adjunct Senior Scholar, Mercatus Center

Norman J. Schofield, William Taussig Professor of Economics, Washington University

Andrei Shleifer, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Mary Shirley, President, Ronald Coase Institute

Vernon Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics; Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University

Richard Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of The History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics, New York University

Karen Vaughn, Economics, George Mason University

Francois Velde, Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

John Wallis, Economics, University of Maryland

Paul J. Zak, Co-Chair, Department of Economics, Claremont Graduate University

Clifford Zinnes, Director of Research Coordination - Economic Policy Team, IRIS, University of Maryland 

History

Robert M.S. McDonald, Professor of History, United States Military Academy, West Point

Law

Robert  D. Cooter, Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law, University of  California, Berkeley

Timur Kuran, King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture, Economics and Law, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Leonard Liggio, Executive Vice President, Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Institute for Humane Studies; Research Professor in the George Mason University School of Law

Nell Minow, Co-founder and Editor, The Corporate Library

Erin O'Hara, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

Melissa A. Thomas, Associate Director of Democracy, Governance and Regulation Team, IRIS, University of Maryland

Vojtech Cepl, Czech Constitutional Court

Philosophy

David Schmidtz, Professor of Philosophy and Economics, University of Arizona

Political Science

Gerard Alexander, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Virginia

Timothy Frye, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University

Jack Knight, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Washington University

Michael Munger, Chairman of the Department of Political Science, Duke University

Vincent Ostrom, Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis, Indiana University

Elinor Ostrom, Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis, Indiana University

Itai Sened, Political Science, Washington University

John Tomasi, Political Science, Brown University

Syed Shariq, RGK Foundation Scholar; Leader, KNEXUS Research Project, Stanford University; International Studies, Stanford University

Barry R. Weingast, Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University 

Sociology

Jack A. Goldstone, Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

Walter Powell, Professor of Education and affiliated Professor of Organizational Behavior and Sociology, Stanford University