Daniel M. Rothschild

Daniel Rothschild was the managing director of the State and Local Policy Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He coordinated the Mercatus Center's research on state and local economic policy and directed the Gulf Coast Recovery Project. Previously, he managed international economic development programs at the Mercatus Center.

A relative rarity in Washington, Rothschild was born in our nation’s capital and grew up in Houston. His popular writing and articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Reason, Slate, the Chicago Policy Review, the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, and Economic Affairs. He has appeared on television and radio in the United States and abroad discussing Mercatus research and its application to current policy debates.

Prior to joining Mercatus, Rothschild was an Eben Tisdale Fellow in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. in history from Grinnell College, his M.A. in modern British history from the University of Manchester, and his M.P.P. from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.