David J. Hebert

David J. Hebert is an Acton affiliate scholar and the managing editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He's currently a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and was previously an associate professor of economics and director of the Center for Markets, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship at Aquinas College. He graduated with a degree in economics from Hillsdale College in 2009 and then attended George Mason University, where he earned a masters in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2014. During graduate school, he was an F.A. Hayek Fellow with the Mercatus Center and a fellow with the Department of Health Administration and Policy and also worked with the Joint Economic Committee in the U.S. Congress.

Posts by David J. Hebert

A Fine Primer on Universal Basic Income

Universal basic income (UBI), freedom dividends, permanent fund dividends, guaranteed income … these are all names that have been used over the past 200 years to describe the same essential policy proposition: to provide a permanent income to citizens from their government. Continue Reading...