Nathan Goodman is a first year PhD student in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He earned his BS in mathematics from the University of Utah. Nathan has worked as the Lysander Spooner Research Scholar in Abolitionist Studies for the Center for a Stateless Society, a program intern for the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University, a Young Voices Advocate, and a summer fellow at the Fully Informed Jury Association. He is also a former campus coordinator and blog team member for SFL. His research interests include Austrian economics, public choice economics, self-governance, and institutional analysis of security and policing. His op-eds have been published in CounterPunch, The Western News, Hernando Today, AntiWar.com, Daily People’s Time, and many other news outlets.