136: Abby Hall on the Boomerang Effect and the Militarization of the US Domestic Police Force
Abby Hall is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute.
She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in 2015.
Her broader research interests include Austrian Economics, Political Economy and Public Choice, and Peace Economics, and Institutions and Economic Development.
Her work includes topics surrounding the U.S. military and national defense, including, domestic police militarization, arm sales, weapons as foreign aid, the cost of military mobilization, and the political economy of military technology.
She is currently researching how foreign intervention adversely impacts domestic political, social, and other institutions.
You can find Abby’s research, writings and other information on her website at www.abigailrhall.com.
Economists:
In this episode Abby mentions: Chris Coyne, James Buchanan, Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Robert Higgs, Henry Hazlitt, David Skarbek, Stephanie Haeffele-Balch and Tom Duncan.
Books:
- Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Chris Coyne and Abigail Hall
- Crisis in Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government by Robert Higgs
- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt - We Meant Well by Peter Van Buren
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Select Papers By Abby Hall:
- The Militarization of Disaster Relief” (work in progress) (with S. Haeffele-Balch).
- Abigail R. Hall (with C. Coyne). 2013. “The Militarization of U.S. Domestic Policing.” The Independent Review, 17(4):485-504 .
- Abigail R. Hall (with C. Coyne). 2014. “The Political Economy of Drones.” Defence and Peace Economics, 25(5): 445-460.
- Abigail R. Hall (with C. Coyne). “The Empire Strikes Back: Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and the Robust Political Economy of Empire.” Review of Austrian Economics, 2013.
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