Abigail Devereaux is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute as well as a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Economic Growth and Assistant Professor of Economics in the W. Frank Barton Business School at Wichita State University. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University (GMU), winning the Israel M. Kirzner Award for Best Dissertation in Austrian Economics. While she was at GMU, she was a Ph.D. fellow at the Mercatus Center and a visiting Ph.D. fellow at New York University’s Economics department and the Classical Liberal Institute.