Eric Alston
Eric Alston is a policy analyst focused on issues related to social movements, and more broadly, historical studies of societal change. He has worked previously with the Political Economy Research Institute in Raleigh, NC, received his dual bachelor's degree in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and his master's in economics from the University of Maryland College Park. Previously, he has researched the relationship between income and levels of environmental pollution, the development of electoral institutions in the U.S. that led to the convergence to a two party system, and the interaction of local and national level government interests that shaped the development of property rights in the frontier U.S.