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# Veronique de Rugy 

George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University 

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Veronique de Rugy is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Her research interests include tax competition, financial privacy, bioterrorism, and fiscal sovereignty issues. She is the coauthor of *Action ou Taxation*, published in Switzerland in 1996. She holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and previously directed academic programs for the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe in France.

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