Charles K. Rowley is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director of the Program in Economics, Politics and the Law at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy and General Director of The Locke Institute. Professor Rowley received his doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 1964. He taught at the University of Nottingham, the University of York and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne before migrating from England to the United States in 1984. Professor Rowley was Founding editor of the International Review of Law and Economics 1981-87. Since 1990 he has jointly edited Public Choice (with Robert D. Tollison). Professor Rowley has written/edited thirty six books and over one hundred and fifty articles in the areas of industrial organization, welfare economics, law and economics, public choice, and classical liberal political economy. He is listed in Mark Blaug’s Who’s Who in Economics and he is member (since 1971) of The Mont Pelerin Society. He is best known for such authored books as The British Monopolies Commission, Steel and Public Policy, Welfare Economics: A Liberal Restatement (with Alan T. Peacock), The Right to Justice and Trade Protection in the United States (with Willem Thorbecke and Richard E. Wagner). He has edited Public Choice Theory (three volumes), Social Choice Theory (three volumes), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice (two volumes, with Friedrich Schneider), Deficits (with James M. Buchanan and Robert D. Tollison), Democracy and Public Choice, The Economics of Budget Deficits ( two volumes, with William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison), Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy, The Political Economy of the Minimal State, Classical Liberalism and Civil Society and The Origins of Law and Economics: Essays by the Founding Fathers (with Francesco Parisi). He has just completing editing, with introductions, a ten volume series: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock. He is currently writing a biography of James M. Buchanan: James M. Buchanan: Political Economist and Economic Philosopher. Professor Rowley is a Past President of the European Public Choice Society.

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