Ion Sterpan is an economics PhD student at George Mason University and a graduate fellow at the Mercatus Center’s F. A. Hayek Program. He studied philosophy at Central European Uni...view moreIon Sterpan is an economics PhD student at George Mason University and a graduate fellow at the Mercatus Center’s F. A. Hayek Program. He studied philosophy at Central European University in Budapest and at the University of Bucharest and worked in Bucharest with the Center for Institutional Analysis and Development. His research topic is polycentric institutional systems, which he approaches from an Austrian and Virginian political economy perspective.view less