Christos Makridis
Senior Fellow
Christos Makridis is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, working on issues such as education, tech policy, and economic issues.
Makridis serves as an associate research professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business and Research Affiliate at the Global Security Initiative (both in Arizona State University), senior researcher at The Gallup Organization, an associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, a digital fellow at the Digital Economy Lab in Stanford University, a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Religious Studies at Baylor University, visiting faculty at University of Nicosia, and a policy adviser.
His primary academic research focuses on labor economics, the digital economy, and personal finance and well-being, with over 100 academic publications and 300 stories in the popular press.
Makridis earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a minor in mathematics at Arizona State University, as well as dual master's and Ph.D.s in economics and management science and engineering at Stanford University.
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Staffing surges and student outcomes: Rethinking unions, resource allocation, and school choice in American education
Despite declining student enrollment in many U.S. school districts, K-12 education spending and staffing have grown substantially over the past two decades.
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How to rethink unions, resource allocation, and school choice in American education
The current landscape of K-12 public education in the United States is at an inflection point.
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Housing costs, regulation, and the promise of reform
The challenge is to reshape regulations to allow much more housing where it’s needed.
