Colin O’Reilly is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University. He is also a scholar at the Institute for Economic Inquiry and the director of the Business Research Fellows program. In 2014 he received his Ph.D. in economics from Suffolk University where he studied economic development and capital accumulation fol­lowing violent conflict. His research been has published in Economics of Transition, World Development, European Journal of Pol­itical Economy, and Public Choice. His email address is ColinOReilly@​creighton.edu.