Virgil Storr is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, a Research Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, George Mason University and the Don C. Lavoie Research Fellow in the Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Department of Economics, George Mason University. He holds a Ph. D. in Economics from George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.) where he studied with Don Lavoie and Peter Boettke. He did his undergraduate work at Beloit College (Beloit, Wis.) where he studied with Emily Chamlee-Wright and Jerry Gustafson.

Virgil’s book on the Bahamas’ economic culture, Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates, was published by Peter Lang. In it, he argues that two ideal typical entrepreneurs dominate the economic life in the Bahamas: the enterprising slave (encouraging Bahamian businessmen to work hard, to be creative and to be productive) and the master pirate (demonstrating how success is more easily attained through cunning and deception). His writings in political economy have been published or are forthcoming in Public Choice, Rationality & Society, the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, the Review of Austrian Economics and several other scholarly publications.

Prior to joining Mercatus/GMU, Virgil was the Chief Information Officer for TSD Communications, a communications strategy firm specializing in crisis communications, speechwriting, media training and communications technology.

Born and raised in the Bahamas, Virgil now lives in Manassas, VA, with his wife Nona Martin.