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The Don Lavoie Fellowship 2025-2026 currently open for applications. This highly competitive, renewable, and fully online fellowship is open to advanced undergraduates, recent graduates, and early-stage graduate students from any academic discipline who have a strong interest in political economy.
Opportunity Details
Throughout the semester-long program, fellows will engage in interactive online activities, including reading discussions and mentorship sessions led by renowned scholars from the Hayek Program. Participants will explore foundational ideas from the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy alongside contemporary research in the field.
Don Lavoie Fellows attend a series of online activities, including an online discussion portal and online reading discussion sessions led by various Hayek Program scholars that introduce them to key ideas in the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy as well as contemporary work in this tradition. Fellows will join a network of Mercatus students, alumni, faculty, and scholars who are conducting and engaging with cutting edge research in contemporary political economy.
The fellowship will focus on two major activities:
Online reading group sessions: Fellows will meet virtually four times throughout the semester in organized reading groups to discuss books written by Hayek Program scholars.
Online discussion portal: The main discussion forum will include videos, podcast episodes, and readings on the key ideas of the Austrian, Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy and prompts for written discussion.
Don Lavoie Fellows are required to have internet access to participate in this program.
The total award of up to $1,250 includes:
In order to be accepted into the Don Lavoie Fellowship program, you must be one of the following:
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