Jeremy Horpedahl

Jeremy Horpedahl is a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center as well as the Director of Arkansas Center for Research in Economics and an associate professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas.

He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University in 2009, concentrating in public choice, public finance, and economic history. His research has been published in Econ Journal Watch, Constitutional Political Economy, the Atlantic Economic Journal, Public Choice, and Public Finance and Management. Horpedahl has also published op-eds in a variety of regional and national publications. Prior to taking on the role of Director at ACRE, Horpedahl has been a researcher with the organization since joining the UCA faculty in 2015. He is an alum of the Mercatus PhD Fellowship.