Abigail R. Hall is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida, USA.

Hall is the coauthor of Austrian Economics: An Introduction (2026, Polity Press), How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite (2024, Independent Institute), The Political Economy of Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the War on Terror (2023, Cambridge University Press), Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in The War On Terror and Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of US Militarism (2021, 2018, Stanford University Press).

Her broader research interests include Austrian Economics, Political Economy, and Defense and Peace Economics. Her work includes topics surrounding U.S. national defense and militarism, including, police militarization, domestic extremism, propaganda, technology in warfare, and the impacts of foreign conflict on domestic institutions.

She works extensively with the media with the goal of making economics accessible to the broader public. She is passionate about helping lay audiences understand the benefits and costs of policies, whether they are state, local, national, or international. Hall and her work have been featured in outlets such as Forbes, Newsweek, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, among many others. She is a regular guest on local, national, and international television, radio, and online outlets.