Description
The National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) program aims to establish a principled theoretical foundation for geoeconomics, enabling evidence-based economic statecraft and defining a rigorous scholarly field of quantitative geoeconomics. The program seeks to achieve the following objectives: test the technical hypothesis that economic mechanism design, computer science formal methods, and experimental economics can be combined to construct a robust scientific framework for geoeconomics, and prevent strategic surprise by building the methodologies and tools necessary to both anticipate and mitigate unintended consequences of economic statecraft.
Some key points to consider:
• The program will focus on geoeconomics and economic statecraft.
• The program will combine techniques from economic mechanism design, formal methods, and experimental economics.
• The program will work backwards from precisely described desired national security states to understand what economic incentives and mechanisms enable those outcomes.
• The program will provide information on the NASCENT technical goals and challenges, address questions from potential proposers, and provide an opportunity for potential proposers to consider how their research may align with the NASCENT program objectives.