Sarah Estelle is an associate professor of economics at Hope College. She extends the theories and empirical techniques of microeconomics to questions located along the “imperialist” frontier of economic research. She is interested in public policy, especially criminal justice reform, education choices, risky health behaviors and parents’ investments in children. More broadly yet, Sarah is intrigued by the role of government in human flourishing and is especially fascinated by the big ideas of Nobel Laureate economist F. A. Hayek related to knowledge and information, cultural evolution, and order not of design but of human action.

She is the founding director of Hope’s Markets & Morality student organization, which explores economic issues through a Christian lens and brings speakers and film screenings to campus to enrich the Hope community’s understanding of markets.