Matt Zwolinski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, director of USD’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, and co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy. His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, law, and economics, with a special interest in issues of exploitation, basic income, and libertarian political theory. In addition to over thirty academic articles, Professor Zwolinski has written or edited numerous books. With Mario Juarez-Garcia, he is the editor of Arguing About Political Philosophy (3^rd edition, Routledge, 2025), and with Benjamin Ferguson, editor of the Routledge Companion to Libertarianism (Routledge, 2022) and Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Oxford, 2024). With John Tomasi, he the author of The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (Princeton, 2023), and with Miranda Fleischer, Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2023).

Professor Zwolinski’s research has had a major impact, both on academic scholarship and on broader public discourse. His work on exploitation and the basic income has been discussed in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, and Time Magazine among other national and international outlets. His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Project Syndicate, CNN, and The Critic. And his most recent book on the intellectual history of libertarianism has been favorably reviewed in such diverse outlets as Reason, Jacobin, Commentary, and The New Yorker, with The Wall Street Journal describing it as “a superb work of intellectual history.”