Abigail Hall

How to Run Wars—A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite

Abigail R. Hall is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

Hall is the author of scholarly articles in such journals as Public Choice, Defence and Peace Economics, Advances in Austrian Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, The Independent Review, Atlantic Economic Review, and The Journal of Private Enterprise. And, her popular articles have appeared in Newsweek, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The American Thinker, and the nationally-syndicated McClatchy-Tribune News Service. Hall is also the recipient of the William P. Snavley Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, Association of Private Enterprise Young Scholar Award (2013, 2014, 2015), and the Don Lavoie Memorial Essay Competition Award.

Hall’s works include topics surrounding women’s issues in business and the family, civil and economic liberty, the U.S. military and national defense, including, domestic police militarization, arms sales, weapons as foreign aid, and the political economy of military technology.

In this timely presentation, Professor Hall will explore the true costs of maintaining a military-forward foreign policy. She will pose essential questions: What does such a policy demand of our nation—not only in monetary and human terms, but also in the currency of liberty? Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how decisions about national security reverberate through our economy, civil society, and democratic institutions.

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