Will Wilkinson (born 1973) is a Canadian American libertarian writer. Currently he is a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he works on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. He is currently working on a paper on how to think about economic inequality. Wilkinson is also the managing editor of the Cato Institute's monthly web magazine, Cato Unbound. Previously,...
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Will Wilkinson (born 1973) is a Canadian American libertarian writer. Currently he is a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he works on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. He is currently working on a paper on how to think about economic inequality. Wilkinson is also the managing editor of the Cato Institute's monthly web magazine, Cato Unbound. Previously, he was Academic Coordinator of the Social Change Project and the Global Prosperity Initiative at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University and before that he ran the Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students for The Institute for Humane Studies. His political philosophy is described by The American Conservative magazine as "Rawlsekian"; that is, a mixture of John Rawls's principles and Friedrich von Hayek's methods.
Wilkinson was born in Independence, Missouri and grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa. He graduated from the University of...
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