Colin O’Reilly is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University and is also a scholar in the Institute for Economic Inquiry. In 2014 Colin received his Ph.D. in economics from Suffolk University where he studied economic development and violent conflict. His research on institutions and economic development has been published in World Development and Economica. Colin has also published cross-country studies on economic growth and inequality in Empirical Economics and Public Choice.