Paul Dragos Aligica

Paul Aligica joined Hudson Institute as a Herman Kahn fellow in 2001 and currently serves as an Adjunct Fellow. He is also a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center and faculty fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University.

In addition to his academic work, he has served as an expert to large international consulting firms and as an advisor or project partner to institutions such as the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, European Union organizations, NATO, and the United States Agency for International Development.

Aligica received his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University, Bloomington. He also has a Ph.D. in economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Bucharest.

Efficacy: East and West. Francois Jullien's Explorations in Comparative Strategy", Comparative Strategy, 26:4, November, 2007.

"The Worlds of Herman Kahn; The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War", Comparative Strategy, 25:1-4, 2006.

"Uncertainty, Human Action and Scenarios. An Austrian Theory Based Decision Support Tool for Business Strategy and Public Policy", Review of Austrian Economics , no. 2, 2007.

"Scenarios and the Growth of Knowledge. Notes on the Epistemic Element in Scenario Building", Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 72, July, 2005.

"The Challenge of the Future and the Institutionalization of Interdisciplinarity: Notes on Herman Kahn's Legacy", Futures – The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies, Vol.36/67-83, 2003.

"Prediction, Explanation and the Epistemology of Futures Studies", Futures – The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies, Vol. 35/10 pp. 1027-1040, 2003.

"Learning in Time. New Institutionalism and the Central and Eastern European Economic Reform Experience", Global Business & Economics Review, vol.8, nr.1/2, 2006.

"Institutional and Stakeholder Mapping: Frameworks for Policy Analysis and Institutional Change", Public Organization Review, vol. 6, June, 2006.

"Institutional Analysis and Economic Development Policy: The Applied Agenda of the Bloomington School", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 57, issue 2, June 2005.

"Bureaucracy", "The Black Market", "The State", "Gordon Tullock", "Vincent and Elinor Ostrom", in Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, editor R.. Hamowy, Sage Publications, 2008.

"From the 'Democracy of Nations' to Stakeholders Based Governance Systems" in Global Democracy and its Difficulties, editors A. Langlois and K. Soltan, Routledge, London, 2008.

Monographs and Publications by Paul Dragos Aligica

Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School, with Peter Boettke, Routledge, London, 2009.

In Defense of Thinking. The Essential Herman Kahn, edited with Kenneth R. Weinstein, Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

The Neoliberal Revolution in Eastern Europe: Economic Ideas in the Transition from Communism, with Anthony Evans, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2008.

Prophecies of Doom and Scenarios of Progress. Herman Kahn, Julian Simon and the Prospective Imagination. Continuum Publishers, New York, 2007.

Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development, with Karol Boudreaux, IEA Publications, Institute for Economic Affairs London, 2007.