Ginny Seung Choi

Dr. Ginny Seung Choi is a Senior Program Director of Academic & Student Programs, a Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. 

She holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University, an MA in Economics from New York University, and a BA in Economics from Emory University. She has also attended the General Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.

Choi specializes in Austrian and experimental economics, with a particular focus on the moral and social aspects of markets. She is the co-author of Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) with Virgil Storr and the co-editor of Culture, Sociality, and Morality: New Applications of Mainline Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). Her work in political economy has been published in various academic journals and other scholarly outlets, including PLOS ONE, Public Choice, and Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review.

Before joining Mercatus, Choi was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics and Government at Saint Vincent College (Latrobe, PA, USA). Originally from South Korea, she spent most of her formative years in Jakarta, Indonesia.

For further publications by Choi, visit her website.