Will Wilkinson

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Will Wilkinson
Born 1973
Birth place Independence, Missouri
Education University of Northern Iowa (1995); M.A. in Philosophy from the Northern Illinois University (1998); worked toward a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland
Circumstances
Occupation writer, thinker
Notable credit(s) policy analyst at the Cato Institute; Academic Coordinator of the Social Change Project and the Global Prosperity Initiative at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University; host of a weekly show, "Free Will," on BloggingHeads.tv; biweekly commentator on American Public Media's Marketplace

Will Wilkinson (born 1973) is an American libertarian writer and thinker. Currently he is a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he works on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. He is currently working on a paper on how to think about economic inequality. Wilkinson is also the managing editor of the Cato Institute's monthly web magazine, Cato Unbound. Previously, he was Academic Coordinator of the Social Change Project and the Global Prosperity Initiative at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University and before that he ran the Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students for The Institute for Humane Studies.

Wilkinson was born in Independence, Missouri and grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1995, received his M.A. in Philosophy from the Northern Illinois University in 1998 and did work toward a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland.

His writing has appeared in Slate [1], Reason [2], TCS Daily [3], National Review [4], the FoxNews website [5], and on The Economist's Free Exchange economics blog[6], where he is a regular contributor.

Wilkinson appears as a commentator every other week on American Public Media's widely-syndicated radio show Marketplace . He is also the host of a weekly show, "Free Will," on the current affairs diavlog site Bloggingheads TV. The show runs every Monday and features discussions of new books and ideas with writers and intellectuals.

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