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Visiting Scholars

photograph of Barry R Weingast
Barry R Weingast

Barry R Weingast is the Ward C Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, and a Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. He served as Chair, Department of Political Science, from 1996 through 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the political foundation of markets, economic reform, and regulation. He has written extensively on problems of political economy of development, federalism and decentralisation, legal institutions and the rule of law, and democracy.

Barry Weingast will be visiting from October to December 2022.