Jonathan Hartley

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Biography

Jon Hartley is an economist specializing in finance, labor economics, and macroeconomics. He is currently a research fellow at the Civitas Institute, a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and an affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center. He also hosts the podcast Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and in various policy and governmental roles at the World Bank, I.M.F., Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Bank of Canada. He received his B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of Chicago, an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.P.P. from Harvard. He is completing his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford.

Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
Recent contributions

Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent

Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 29, 2025

Canada Needs a Pro-Growth Economic Strategy More Than Ever

Economic Dynamism
Apr 24, 2025

Strengthening the U.S.-Canada Alliance

Economic Dynamism
Mar 11, 2025
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Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent

Pursuit of Happiness
Aug 29, 2025

Canada Needs a Pro-Growth Economic Strategy More Than Ever

Economic Dynamism
Apr 24, 2025

Strengthening the U.S.-Canada Alliance

Economic Dynamism
Mar 11, 2025

The New Supply Side Economics Can Revive Economic Growth

Economic Dynamism
Dec 20, 2024
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Richard Epstein on Property Rights, Law and Economics
Richard Epstein on Property Rights, Law and Economics

Richard Epstein on his career as a legal scholar, the takings clause, state monopoly power, Richard’s property-driven theory of constitutional interpretation, the Coase theorem, and classical liberalism versus anarcho-capitalism.

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Jul 25, 2025
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