Vlad Tarko is associate professor of political economy in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at University of Arizona. He has published papers in American Political Science Review, Governance, Business & Politics, Kyklos, Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, and others. He is co-author of Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Perspective (co-authored with Paul Aligica and Peter Boettke) (Oxford University Press, 2019), author of Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and co-author of Capitalist Alternatives (with Paul Aligica) (Routledge, 2014). His email address is vladtarko@gmail.com.