Anand Murugesan is an economist at the Department of Public Policy, CEU. He combines insights from economics and related disciplines with causal inference tools – lab, lab-in-the-field, and observational data – to study social problems, particularly in developing countries. Recent research includes studying: the impact of religious violence on India's rural economy; how the practice of cash-for-votes corrodes democracies and; the long shadow of the Habsburg imperial history on tax compliance today. |
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Vlad Naumeuscu is an anthropologist of religion broadly interested in questions of learning and cultural transmission. He investigates how socio-historical processes and psychological dispositions have shaped the evolution and transmission of religious phenomena. He is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU. |
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Thom Scott-Phillips is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Logic Cognition Language & Information, at the University of The Basque Country and a visiting scholar at CEU. |