October
30,
2005
Russell
Roberts on NPR
On tomorrow morning's NPR program Morning Edition, GMU professor
Russ Roberts offer a guest commentary on the high-octane issue of rising gasoline
prices and so-called 'windfall' profits. [link
to text/audio]
Fall
2005
Welcome
to our new faculty members Dan
Klein and Ilia Rainer!
April 28, 2005
Russell Roberts
testifies on CAFTA
Russell Roberts testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce on the Central American Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA). Read Dr. Roberts testimony here.
March 13,
2005
Thomas Stratmann wins this year's Duncan Black prize
Please join me in congratulating
Thomas Stratmann for winning, along with former GMU Economics undergrad
Jared Garner, this year's Duncan Black Prize. This Prize was awarded
for their paper "Judicial
Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands", published
last year in Public Choice.
December
14, 2004
One
of Our Alumni in the NY Times Magazine
J C Bradbury, who graduated a few
years ago and is currently an assistant professor at the University
of the South, was highlighted
in the NY Times Magazine for his
work on the economics of baseball --- in particular the application
of the concept of moral hazard to hitbatsmen in the NL versus
the AL.
December
12, 2004
Economics
Professor’s Teaching Inspires Devoted Following
Check out this brief
article in George Mason's campus newspaper, The Broadside about
Tom Rustici.
FYI: Not
mentioned in this story is the fact that Tom Rustici also writes
the texts that accompany the John Stossel videos that are distributed
for use to high-school classes.
November 28, 2004
"Economists Are Getting Religion"
Here's a write-up
on Larry Iannaccone in the current issue of Business
Week. (A free registration might be required for you to view the
story.) Nice going, Professor
Iannaccone!
August
31,
2004
The
Selected Works of Gordon Tullock
Virginia
Political Economy is the inaugural volume in a new
series, Liberty Fund's The Selected Works of Gordon
Tullock. In this volume, GMU Professor Charles
K. Rowley edits a collection of diverse essays arranged
in thematic clusters, which together provide a primer on Gordon
Tullock’s original and extraordinary scholarship from
1954 to 2002.
August
25,
2004
The
Program in Economics, Politics and the Law
The
Program in Economics, Politics and the Law (PEPL), replaces
the Program in Economics and the Law. The Program, directed
by Charles K. Rowley, is located in the James M. Buchanan Center,
and commenced operations in July 2004.
 October
9, 2002
Dr. Vernon
Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
Along with Dr. Daniel Kahneman, Dr.
Smith was given
this award "for having established laboratory experiments
as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study
of alternative market mechanisms." To
hear Dr. Smith's Nobel Prize lecture and other resources please
visit the Nobel
e-Museums website.
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