Holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, and it’s a blogger for EconLog. His research is focused on liberalism, capitalism, free market, anarchism, and anarcho-capitalism. 

He also is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration.