Courses

Jeremy Horpedahl

Assistant Professor of Economics

University of Central Arkansas

Jeremy Horpedahl is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas, where he teaches principles of microeconomics and public finance. He is also an affiliated scholar with the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics. He has published several research papers and policy briefs with Mercatus on the federal and state tax systems. His research has been published in Econ Journal Watch, Public Finance and Management, the Atlantic Economic Journal, and Constitutional Political Economy. Dr. Horpedahl received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in 2009 and was a Mercatus Center Ph.D. Fellow. He has also taught at Buena Vista University in Iowa and St. Lawrence University in New York.

Blog Posts

What most Americans have never heard about extreme poverty

September 13, 2017
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Poverty & Inequality

766,010,000 people.That’s how many are living in extreme poverty today, defined by the World Bank as having roughly $2/day or less in current US purchasing power. Think about that number: seven hundred and sixty-six million, ten thousand human beings.[1]That’s a lot of people in poverty! It’s roughly double the population of the United States, all at a standard of living we in the USA cannot really imagine. Isn’t it unconscionable that so many live in poverty when we live in such affluence?But here’s another number: 6,412,820,000. That’s the number of people who are not living in extreme