Jordan Lofthouse

Dr. Jordan Lofthouse is a 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. 

Lofthouse graduated as Valedictorian from the S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University with a BS in Geography. He earned his MS in Economics from Utah State University and earned his PhD in Economics from George Mason University, where he also received the William P. Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies in Economics. He is also an alum of the Mercatus Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship and the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.

He specializes in the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy. His research topics include economic development, environmental economics, and disaster recovery. He is the coauthor of The Reality of American Energy: The Hidden Costs of Electricity Policy (Praeger, 2017) with Ryan M. Yonk and Megan E. Jenkins.

For further publications by Lofthouse, visit his website.