Glory is a Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. My research interests are in the history of political thought, intellectual history, and political economy. 

Her first book, Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism (Princeton, 2022) traces the reception and influence of Adam Smith's ideas in American thought, politics, and culture from the eighteenth century to today. It was named a 2023 PROSE Category Winner in Economics from the Association of American Publishers and listed as one of NPR’s Books We Love in 2022. It was also named a Top 5 Biographies of Economists by the Wall Street Journal and received the 2024 Best Monograph Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

Yueran Ma is the Carhart Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School Business, and Co-Director of the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance. Her research interest is empirical studies at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics. One line of her work draws on insights from contracts and organizations to shed light on macroeconomic dynamics. She has proposed new perspectives about corporate debt contracts and how they shape macroeconomic outcomes. Her recent work analyzes production and innovation activities over the past century, and the power and limits of organizations. She has also studied the effects of monetary policy on innovation, which was presented at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. Another line of her work draws on insights from behavioral economics. She has studied the impact of low interest rates on financial markets, and the formation of expectations in finance and macroeconomics. Her earlier work examined questions in real estate and urban economics. Finally, she has an interest in the history of economic thought.

She received B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in Applied Mathematics, and Ph.D. in Business Economics, from Harvard University. She is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the AQR Institute Young Researcher Award, the Leo Melamed Prize for Outstanding Research in Finance at Chicago Booth, among other awards.

President of the Center for Public Studies (CEP) since 2025. He served as Director of the institution from March 2018 to May 2025.

He was a full professor at the School of Government at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, where he also served as Dean and currently holds the Adam Smith Chair. He is recognized for his research on the thought of Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the history of economic thought. He is the author of *Adam Smith in Context* (translated into Spanish and published by Tecnos), *Adam Smith. El Filósofo Economista* (Fondo de Cultura Económica), and editor of *New Voices on Adam Smith* (Routledge), among other publications. His work also includes notable articles on the influence of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in Chile.