Jedediah Pida-Reese is a Resident Assistant Professor in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University and a Faculty Fellow in the Menard Center for Economic Inquiry. Jed earned his PhD in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University and was a research assistant with the Free Market Institute. He has also been an English teacher with Eikaiwa Aeon, an English language learning school in Tsukuba City in Ibaraki, Japan. He received his B.S. in Economics from the University of Nevada, Reno, and M.A. in Economics, with a concentration in Applied Economics, from San Jose State University. He is originally from Las Vegas, Nevada.