Our Structure
Mercatus eschews hierarchy in favor of flat communication and project structure.
Academic and Student Programs
Provides support for scholars and students pursuing research in the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy.
Virgil Storr Senior Director, ASP
Stefanie Haeffele Deputy Director, ASP
Pluralism & Civil Exchange
Fosters a deeper understanding of pluralism through research, the practice of civil discourse, and the dissemination of tools for audiences across philosophical divides to model pluralism.
Ben Klutsey Director, PCE
Communications
Seeks to clearly communicate our research and ideas by developing content, channels, and relationships that reach and persuade target audiences.
Kate De Lanoy Director, Communications
Development
Introduces philanthropists to our work and solicits their support.
The Development team is shared with IHS.
Dan Butler Senior Director, Development
Policy Outreach
Promotes our scholars and their research to policymakers at the federal, state and locals, and to external organizations involved in public policy to educate them on policy solutions from an economic and market-based perspective.
Brett Doyle Managing Director of Outreach
Our Projects
Marginal Revolution University (MRU)
Founded in 2012 by economics professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University (MRU) is on a mission to provide a world-class economics education to everyone, everywhere for free.
Roman Hardgrave Director, MRU
Emergent Ventures (EV)
EV is a fellowship and grant program that seeks to support entrepreneurs and brilliant minds with highly scalable ideas for meaningfully improving society.
Tyler Cowen General Director
Shruti Rajagopalan EV India
Our Leadership
Daniel M. Rothschild
Executive Director
Dan leads strategy and oversees all programs and operations for the organization.
Prior to serving in this role at Mercatus, Dan was director of state projects and a senior fellow with the R Street Institute. He joined R Street in October 2013 after two years as the first-ever director of external affairs and coalitions at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he spent six years in a variety of policy, communications, and project management positions at Mercatus. He has worked extensively with think tanks throughout the country.
Tyler Cowen
Faculty Director
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director at Mercatus. With colleague Alex Tabarrok, Cowen is coauthor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution.
In addition to his duties as faculty director, Tyler leads several projects at Mercatus:
The online economics education platform Marginal Revolution University (also co-founded with Alex Tabarrok)
Emergent Ventures, a low-overhead fellowship and grant-making program.
Conversations with Tyler, a popular podcast series featuring underrated thinkers