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Guinevere Liberty Nell

Research Programmer & Policy Analyst

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www.economicliberty.net

Education

University of Warwick, MA by Research in Soviet History, 2011

Coursework toward bachelors degree in biochemistry and economics (2003-2009)

Published Books

Rediscovering Fire: Basic Economic Lessons from the Soviet Experiment, New York: Algora, 2010

Published Papers

Rent-Seeking, Hierarchy and the Centralization: Why the Soviet Union Collapsed So Fast and What it

Means for Market Economies, Comparative Economic Studies, advance online publication,

June 30, 2011; doi:10.1057/ces.2011.17

Bridging Market Socialist and Austrian Economics, Challenge Magazine, Vol. 54 (4), 2011

"Competition as Market Progress: An Austrian Rationale for Agent-based Modeling," Review of

Austrian Economics, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 127-145, June 2010

Agent Based Modeling in Perl, The Perl Review, 2006

Prosperity and the Welfare State: The Effect of Benefit Generosity and Wage Coordination on

Absolute Poverty and Prosperity in Cross-National Perspective, Luxembourg Income Study Working

Paper No. 424, 2005

Published Book Reviews

"The Cambridge Companion to Hayek," Review of Political Economy, vol. 22(1), 2010

Paper Presentations

Welfare in the Austrian Marketplace: Bridging Austrian and Market Socialist Economics, European

Society for the History of Economic Thought, May 2011

"Competition as market progress: An Austrian rationale for agent-based modeling," The Heritage

Foundation, September 2010

The Dynamic Consequences of Public Employment : An Agent Based Approach, (revised and

updated), Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (ESHIA), Warsaw University of

Technology, 2008

The Dynamic Consequences of Public Employment : An Agent Based Approach, Economic Science

with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (ESHIA), George Mason University, 2007

Unpublished Works

Comparing EITC and Minimum Wage - Comparing the Impact of the EITC and the Minimum Wage

on Poverty and Employment, for The Rio Grande Foundation, 2005

The Dynamic Consequences of Public Employment : An Agent Based Approach, 2007 and (revised)

2008.

Socialism as Impossible: A Reassessment of Theory in Light of the Available Evidence, 2008

The Seed Theory of Economic Calculation: Lange Revisited, 2008

Flexible Pricing and the Market Process, 2008

Economic Calculation and Surplus Extraction: A Reply to Crampton and Farrant, 2008

Rent-seeking, Centralization and Emergence: An Evolutionary Approach to Choice in Public and

Private Sectors, 2009

The Internal and The External Freedoms: The Scope of Hayek s Complex Society, 2009

Utopian Totalitarianism in Theory and Practice, 2010

Welfare in the Austrian Marketplace: Bridging Austrian and Market Socialist Economics, 2010

Socialism and the Calculation Problem in the Development of Modern Economics, 2010

Spontaneous Order and the Utopian Collective (Masters dissertation)

Forging Common Ground: The Basic Income Guarantee and Austrian and Market Socialist

Theory (a Palgrave-MacMillan Basic Income Guarantee collection, which I will edit)

Free Society in Austrian and Market Socialist Theory: A Collection on Economic Organization

(another collection I am working on)

Referee

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Review of Austrian Economics, Advances in

Austrian Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Employment

Heritage Foundation

Center for Data Analysis

Research Programmer

September 2007 - current

In the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation, I am responsible for running, maintaining, and developing new

features for a microeconomic individual income tax model based on IRS Statistics of Income and Current Population

Survey U.S. Census databases, and analyzing and presenting results. I forecast revenue, distribution and income effects of

tax policy. Using the model, I conduct original policy analysis and also provide data to others for reports. I am also

responsible for maintaining and updating the tax model and working with other CDA staff to design and create new

analytical economic models, including a dynamic entrepreneurship model based upon an agent based model I developed

independently. In addition, I am encouraged to work on other policy projects at the Foundation, on independent projects,

and to attend conferences and seminars. One independent project was the completion of my book Rediscovering Fire.

Forum One Communications

Web Programmer

September 2006-September 2007

National Center for Genome Resources

Software Engineer

April 2002-Dec 2002

Thinking Pictures

Lead Perl Engineer

June 2001 -March 2002

ActiveBuddy / Colloquis

Software Engineer

Sept 2000 May 2001

Freelance Software Development Work

Software Developer

1998-2000

Independent Projects

Agent Based Economic Model

September 2005 - Current (basis for dynamic entrepreneurial model for The Heritage Foundation)

Agent-based economic model of the market as a complex system.

Designed and developed unique complex systems model of the market economy

Created auction and competition agent-based pricing schemes

Modeled responsive government employment program

Included learning strategies for firms to enhance decision-making

Used for economic policy analysis

Models private firms, consumers and public firms acting as employer of last resort; wage and product markets with single

or multiple products using semantic-based preferences and economies of scale; welfare program, price controls,

immigration, wholesale and retail sales. Presented at the International Conference on Economic Science with

Heterogeneous Interacting Agents.

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