Emily Skarbek is an Associate Research Professor of Political Economy in the Center for
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and the Director of the PPE Research Workshop at Brown
University. Before joining Brown in 2017, she was a tenured in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London and served as director of the Political Economy MA degree program. Emily’s two streams of research sit within the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics framework. The first examines how civil associations function to produce governance institutions under challenging circumstances such as natural disasters or the absence of state capacity. Her second line of work examines the history of economic thought with a focus on the relationship between economics and institutions. Emily’s research has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as American Journal of Economics and Sociology, History of Political Economy, Journal of Institutional Economics, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Public Choice.
