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Fellows
Fellows
presidential medal of freedom
nobel prize
national medal of science
national humanities medal
american academy of arts and sciences
Barry Weingast
Barry R. Weingast
senior fellow

Expertise: Political economy and public policy, political foundation of markets and economic reform, U.S. politics, regulation

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Barry R. Weingast is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University; he served as chair of that department from 1996 to 2001. He is also a professor of economics, by courtesy, at the university. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1993 to 1994.