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Scott Burns is a Mercatus PhD Dissertation Fellow in the Economics PhD Program at George Mason University.  Scott earned his BS in Economics from Louisiana State University where he was part of the Speech and Debate Club and the Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society.  His current publications include The War on Drugs in Afghanistan: Another Failed Experiment in Interdiction and Old (Chicago) school, new century: the link between Knight and Simons’ Chicago plan to Buchanan’s constitutional money. Scott’s PhD dissertation topic has to do with one of the most exciting yet under-appreciated miracles of the market going on in the world today, the "mobile money revolution" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scott writes for the blog Alt-M, which is a blog run by free banking scholars on the theme Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future. Check out the show notes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned by Scott at www.economicrockstar.com/scottburns