Abigail R. Hall

Abigail R. Hall is an associate professor of economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, a senior affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 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 Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

Hall is the coauthor of “Austrian Economics: An Introduction” (forthcoming, 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 broader research interests include Austrian economics, political economy, and defense and peace economics. 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.

She works extensively with the media. 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.