Clara E. Piano is currently an assistant professor of economics at Austin Peay State University. Her primary areas of research are family economics, law and economics, and public choice. Prior to Austin Peay, Clara was an assistant professor of quantitative analysis at Samford University. She has also been a lecturer of economics at the Catholic University of America and George Mason University.
Posts by Clara Piano
February 12, 2026
Western novels, songs, and films make many assumptions about love and marriage. Yet one underlying expectation continues to shock the non-Western world and once shocked our ancestors. This expectation is
dispositive spousal consent: the belief that a marriage is valid because two individuals freely choose one another, rather than because their families or political authorities approve the match.
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February 11, 2025
“The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spanish Scholastics … correctly reasoned that God was not going to leave the social world a chaotic mess. They recognized a ‘humane science’ reflecting the mind of God while rendering the social world intelligible.
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April 23, 2024
Trendy title aside, Tyler Cowen’s new book,
GOAT: Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?,is a mini masterpiece. Cowen takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the life and works of the greatest economists of all time (Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes, Hayek, J.S.
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