Abigail R. Hall

Abigail R. Hall is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa. She is a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, a Public Choice and Public Policy Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research, and a Non-Resident Fellow with Defense Priorities. She holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University and is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship. 

Hall has coauthored numerous books, including Austrian Economics: An Introduction (2026, Polity Press), How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite (2024, Independent Institute), The Political Economy of Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the War on Terror (2023, Cambridge University Press), Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in The War On Terror and Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of US Militarism (2021, 2018, Stanford University Press).

Her work includes topics surrounding U.S. national defense and militarism, including, police militarization, domestic extremism, propaganda, technology in warfare, and the impacts of foreign conflict on domestic institutions. Hall and her work have been featured in outlets such as Forbes, Newsweek, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, as well as a variety of local, national, and international outlets.

For further publications by Hall, visit her website.