Lone Mountain Fellow
Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence and Faculty Director of the Hernando De Soto Capital Markets Program at Colorado University, Boulder, and a Research Associate with the Comparative Institutions Project. He was a 2017 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow. Alston received his MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and his JD from the University of Chicago.
An analysis of how uncertain property rights – exogenously generated by railroad land grants – stymied irrigation investment and economic development on the Western frontier.