Nicholas Short is a legal scholar and political scientist who studies American political economy. His research focuses on the politics of economic transformations in the United States. Nick studies the ways in which the design of American government makes it difficult to implement ambitious economic reforms, in addition to how voters, elected officials, courts, legal and economic professionals, and business interests influence economic policymaking. His current work also explores how economic ideology, and the law and economics movement, has caused policy to becomes less responsive to public demands.
Nick completed a MS degree in Technology and Policy at MIT in 2016 and a PhD in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University in 2022. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
