Nicholas Short

Assistant Professor

Member Of:
  • Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy
Office Phone: 404-385-8577
Office Location: D.M. Smith 222
Related Links:
Email Address: nshort6@gatech.edu

Overview

Education:
  • PhD, Government and Social Policy, Harvard University
  • MS, Technology and Policy, M.I.T.
  • JD, Law, University of California - Hastings College of the Law
  • BA, Astrophysics and History, University of California - Berkeley

Interests

Teaching Interests:
I teach courses in Applied Political Economy (PUBP 3020) and Intellectual Property Transactions (PUBP 4823).
Research Interests:
I am a legal scholar and political scientist who studies American political economy. My research focuses on the politics of economic transformations in the United States. I study the ways in which the design of American government makes it difficult to implement ambitious economic reforms. I also study how voters, elected officials, courts, legal and economic professionals, and business interests influence economic policymaking. My current work also explores how economic ideology, and the law and economics movement, has caused policy to become less responsive to public demands.

Courses

  • PUBP-3020: Applied Political Econ

Publications

Updated:  Jan 25th, 2026 at 10:58 PM