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埃里克 阿尔斯通 is a Scholar in Residence in the 金融 Division and the 教师 Director of the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program in the Leeds School of Business at the University of 科罗拉多州 博尔德. He also serves as a 研究 Associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project. 阿尔斯通 received his MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and his JD from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching is centered in the fields of law and economics and institutional and organizational analysis, the conceptual and methodological toolkits of which he applies to questions in the development of rights along frontiers, the design and implementation of constitutions, and digital governance challenges with an emphasis on cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks. 阿尔斯通’s publications include constitutional design studies, the emergence of economic institutions in the frontier US West, and a range of questions in the design and governance of blockchain networks. His current grant work involves a National Science Foundation project exploring the development of 科罗拉多州 given land entry records and census data, and a Templeton World Charity Foundation project examining quantitative measures of digital currency market development and manipulation. 阿尔斯通’s outreach and service activities include advising constitutional design projects, as well as providing a range of governance design expertise for digitally networked organizations, including one of the world’s first data trusts.