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Contact Information

• Phone: 703-993-1149 (Fairfax Campus)
• Phone: 703-993-4853 (Arlington Campus)
• FAX: 703-993-1133
• Email: pboettke@gmu.edu
• Homepage: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/pboettke


Education

• Ph.D. 1989, George Mason University
• M.A. 1987, George Mason University
• B.A. 1983, Grove City College


Fields of Specialization and Interest

• Market Process Theory

• Comparative Political Economy

• History of Economic Thought and Methodology


Academic Positions

• 2004- Director of Graduate Studies, PhD Program, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030

• 2004- Hayek Fellow, STICERD, London School of Economics

• 2003 - Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030

• 1999- Deputy Director, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.

• 1999- Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.

• 1998-2003- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 (tenured Fall 2000).

• 1997-98 Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, School of Business, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471.

• 1997-98 Senior Research Fellow, Austrian Economics Program, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY 10003.

• 1990-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY 10003.

• 1992-1993 National Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

• 1988-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309.


Teaching Experience

The Rule of Law (Graduate), Constitutional Political Economy (Graduate), The Austrian Theory of the Market Process, II (Graduate), Comparative Political Economy (Graduate/Undergraduate), Soviet and East European Economies (Graduate), History of Economic Thought: The Austrian School (Graduate), Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy (Graduate), Economic Sociology (Graduate), Economics for the Citizen, Contemporary Societies in Change (Honors Course at GMU), American Economic History, Principles of Microeconomics (Honors Course at New York University), Economics and Social Problems (Core Curriculum Course at New York University), Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Law and Economics, History of Economic Thought, Public Finance, and Great Books in Political Economy (Honors College at Oakland University).


Academic Publications

1. Books

• Author

• The Economic Way of Thinking, 11th Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005), 527pp. (with Paul Heyne [original author] and David Prychitko, preface by Douglas North).
  
• Is an Independent Non-Profit Sector Prone to Failure? Indianapolis, IN: The Philanthropic Enterprise, 2004 (monograph with David Prychitko)
  
  
• The Economic Way of Thinking, 10th Edition (Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002), 527pp. (with Paul Heyne and David Prychitko, preface by Douglass North).
  
  
• Calculation & Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (London: Routledge, 2001), 352pp.
  
  
• Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation (London: Routledge, 1993), 199pp.
  
  
• The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928 (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), 246pp.
  
  

• Editor
  
  
  • Edited, with an introduction. The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises: Theory and History, 2 volumes (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003). (Co-editor Peter Leeson).
    
    
  • Edited, with an introduction. Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, 9 volumes (London: Routledge, 2000).
    
    
  • Edited, with an introduction. The Legacy of F. A. Hayek: Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 3 volumes (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000).
    
    
  • Edited, with an introduction. Market Process Theories, 2 volumes (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998). (Co-editor, David L. Prychitko).
    
    
  • Edited, with an introduction and conclusion. The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994), 628pp.
    
    
  • Edited, with an introduction. The Collapse of Development Planning (New York: New York University Press, 1994), 334pp.
    
    
  • Edited, with an introduction and conclusion. The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994), 320pp. (Co-editor, David L.Prychitko).
    
    

2. Journal Articles

1. “Was Mises Right?,” Review of Social Economy (2006), in press. (Co-authored with Peter Leeson).




2. “High Priests and Lowly Philosophers: The Battle for the Soul of Economics,” Case Western Reserve University Law Review, 56 (2006), in press. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson).
   
   
   
3. “Hayek and Market Socialism: Science, Ideology and Public Policy,” Economic Affairs (December 2005), in press.
   
   
4. “Knowledge, Economics and Coordination: Understanding Hayek’s Legal Theory,” NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, Vol. 1 (2005) 209-223. (Co-authored with Scott Beaulier and Chris Coyne).




5. “The Role of the Economists in Economic Development,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (2005), in press. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne).
   
   
6. “The New Comparative Political Economy,” Review of Austrian Economics 18 (3-4) 2005, in press. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne, Peter Leeson and Frederic Sautet)
   
   
7. “On Reading Hayek: Choice, Consequences and The Road to Serfdom,” European Journal of Political Economy (2005), in press.




8. “The Many Faces of the Market,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines (2005), in press. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson).
   
   
9. “The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics,” History of Political Economy (2005), in press. (Co-authored with Steve Horwitz).
   
   
10. “Does the Market Self Correct?,” Review of Political Economy (2005), in press. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson).
    
    
11. “The Many Faces of the Market,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines (2005), in press. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson).
    
    
12. "Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming. (with Christopher Coyne)
    
    
13. “On Reading Hayek: Rational Choice, Unintended Consequences and The Road to Serfdom,” European Journal of Political Economy, 2005.
    
    
14. “The Limit of Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics,” History of Political Economy, 2005. (with Steve Horwitz).
    
    
15. “Teaching Economics Through Ayn Rand,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, forthcoming.
    
    
16. “The Development Set: The Character of the Journal of Development Economics,” Economic Journal Watch, 1 (2) 2004: 306-18. (with Susan Anderson)
    
    
17. “The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and Practice,” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2004 7(2): 71-89. (with Christopher Coyne)
    
    
18. “Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy” (with Peter Leeson). Journal of Markets & Morality 7(1) 2004: 99-111.



19. “Entrepreneurship and Development: Cause or Consequence?” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2003, 6: 67-88. (with Christopher Coyne)
    
    
20. “Is the Transition to the Market too Important to be Left to the Market?” (with Peter Leeson). Economic Affairs 23(1) 2003: 33-39.
    
    
21. “Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics” (with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson). Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought 43(1) 2003: 1-10.
    
    
22. “Self-Governance in the Emergence of Financial Markets,” Managerial Finance, 29 (2003). (Co-authored with Edward P. Stringham).
    



23. “Hayek, Arrow, and the Problems of Democratic Decision-Making” (with Peter Leeson). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 20(1) 2002: 9-21. [journal appeared in 2003]
    
    
24. “Information and Knowledge,” Review of Austrian Economics, 15 (4) 2002, 263-274.
    
    
25. “Rule of Law, Development and Human Capabilities,” Supreme Court Economic Review (Fall 2002), 109-126. (Co-authored with J. Robert Subrick).
    
    
26. “The Use and Abuse of History of Economic Thought: The Case of the Austrian School of Economics,” History of Political Economy, 34 (2002): 337-360.
    
    
27. “Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and The Economics of Science,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines , 12 (1) March 2002, 119-130. (Co-authored with William Butos).
    
    
28. “From the Philosophy of Mind to the Philosophy of the Market,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 9 (1) 2002: 53-64. (Co-authored with John Robert Subrick).
    
    
29. "Post Classical Political Economy," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 61 (1) 2002: 161-191. (Co-authored with Virgil Storr).
    
    
30. "Knight and the Austrians on Capital and the Problem of Socialism," History of Political Economy, 34 (1) 2002: 153-174. (Co-authored with Karen Vaughn).
    
    
31. "Entry and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Post-Communist Russia," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines , 11 (1) 2001. (Co-authored with Bridget Butkevich).
    
    
32. "The Russian Crisis: Perils and Prospects for Post-Soviet Transition," American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 58, no. 3 (July 1999): 371-384.
    
    
33. "Rethinking Ourselves: Negotiating Values in the Political Economy of Post-Communism," Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 85-95.
    
    
34. "Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy," Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 5 (1998): 131-158.
    
    
35. "Promises Made and Promises Broken in the Russian Transition," Constitutional Political Economy, 9, no. 2 (1998): 127-136.
    
    
36. "Where Did Economics Go Wrong: Modern Economics as a Flight From Reality," Critical Review, 11, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 11-64.
    
    
37. "Soviet Venality: A Rent-Seeking Model of the Communist State," Public Choice, 93, nos. 1-2 (1997): 37-53. (Co-authored with Gary Anderson).
    
    
38. "Why Culture Matters: Economics, Politics, and the Imprint of History," Nuova Economia e Storia, No. 3 (September 1996): 189-214. [In Italian]
    
    
39. "Good Economics, Bad Sex (And Even Worse Philosophy): A Review Essay of Richard Posner, Sex and Reason, Review of Political Economy, 7, no. 3 (1995): 360-373.
    
    
40. "Why Are There No Austrian Socialists? Ideology, Science and the Austrian School," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 17 (Spring 1995): 35-56.
    
    
41. "Hayek's The Road to Serfdom Revisited: Government Failure in the Argument Against Socialism," Eastern Economic Journal, 21, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 7-26.
    
    
42. "The Reform Trap in Politics and Economics in the Former Communist Economies," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, V, nos. 2/3 (June - September 1994): 267-293.
    
    
43. "Mr. Boulding and the Austrians: Boulding's contribution to subjectivist economics," Cuandernos de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales, No. 26 (1994): 99-109. (Co-authored with David L. Prychitko) [Translated into Spanish]. English language version to be published in Laurence Moss, ed., Joseph A. Schumpeter, Historian of Economics: Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought - Selected Papers from the History of Economics Society Conference, 1994 (London: Routledge, 1996): 250-259.
    
    
44. "The Political Infrastructure of Economic Development," Human Systems Management, 13, no. 2 (1994): 89-100.
    
    
45. "Perestroika and Public Choice: the economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society," Public Choice, 75, no. 2 (February 1993): 101-118. (Co-authored with Gary Anderson).
    
    
46. "Analysis and Vision in Economic Discourse," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14 (1) Spring 1992: 84-95.
    
    
47. "Interpretive Reasoning and the Study of Social Life," Methodus: Bulletin of the International Network for Economic Method, 2, no. 2 (December 1990): 35-45. Reprinted in David L. Prychitko, ed., Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations (Brookfield, VT: Avebury, 1995): 59-80.
    
    
48. "The Theory of Spontaneous Order and Cultural Evolution in the Social Theory of F.A. Hayek," Cultural Dynamics, 3, no. 1 (1990): 61-83.
    
    
49. "The Political Economy of Utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918-1921,"Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 1, no. 2 (June 1990): 91-138.
    
    
50. "Institutions and Individuals: A Review Essay of Geoffrey Hodgson, Economics and Institutions," Critical Review, 4, nos. 1-2 (1990): 10-26. Reprinted in David L. Prychitko, ed., Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations (Brookfield, VT: Avebury, 1995): 19-35.
    
    
51. "The Political and Economic Challenges of Perestroika," Market Process, 8 (Spring 1990): 19-35.
    
    
52. "Evolution and Economics: Austrians as Institutionalists," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 6 (1989): 73-89.
    
    
53. "Austrian Institutionalism: A Reply," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 6 (1989): 181-202.
    
    
54. "Story-Telling and the Human Sciences: A Review Essay of Don McCloskey," The Rhetoric of Economics," Market Process, 6, no. 2 (Fall 1988): 4-7; 28.Reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, eds., The Market Process: Essay in Contemporary Austrian Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994): 179-186.
    
    
55. "The Soviet Experiment with Pure Communism," Critical Review, 2, no. 4 (Fall 1988): 149-182.
    
    
56. "Virginia Political Economy: A View from Vienna," Market Process, 5, no. 2 (Fall 1987): 7-15. Reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, eds., The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994): 244-260.
    
    
57. "Understanding Market Processes: An Austrian View of 'Knowing'," in Marketing Theory: American Marketing Association Winter Educators' Conference Papers and Proceedings (Chicago: American Marketing Association, 1987): 195-199.
    
    
58. "Beyond Equilibrium Economics: Reflections on the Uniqueness of the Austrian Tradition," Market Process, 4, no. 2 (Fall 1986): 6-9; 20-25. (Co-authored with Steven Horwitz and David Prychitko). Reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychtiko, eds., The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994): 62-79.
    
    

3. Short Papers, Comments and Book Reviews

1. “Socialism: Still Impossible After All These Years,” Critical Review (17 (1-2) 2005), 177-192. (Co-authored with Peter Leeson).
   
   
2. “Introduction – Forum Series on the Role of Institutions in Promoting Economic Growth,” Review of Austrian Economics, 18 (3-4) 2005, 235-240.
   
   
3. Book review of Paul Gregory, The Political Economy of Stalinism, The Independent Review (2005), in press.
   
   
4. Book review of Keith Hoover, Economics as Ideology, Revue de Philosophie Economique (2005), in press.
   
   
5. Book review of Oscar Bandelin, Return to the NEP, Slavic Review, 64 (2) Summer 2005: 451-453.
   
   
6. “Introduction to ‘Polycentric Political Economy’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organziation 57 (2) 2005, 141-143.
   
   
7. Book review of Mario J. Blejer and Marko Skreb, eds., Transition: The First Decade,” Slavic Review, 62 (2) 2003: 363-364.
   
   
8. “Information, Knowledge and the Close of F. A. Hayek’s System: A Comment,” Eastern Economic Journal, 28 (3) 2002: 343-349.
   
   
9. Book Review of Andrew Abbott, Chaos of Disciplines, Journal of Economic Literature (December 2002), 1230-1231.
   
   
10. “Being Human: What They Don’t Teach in Graduate School – a review of Deirdre McCloskey’s How to be Human, Though an Economist, Humane Studies Review, 14 (2) 2002. [on-line]
    
    
11. “Remembering Don Lavoie (1951-2001): A Student’s Perspective,” Review of Austrian Economics, 15 (1) 2002: 103-105.
    
    
12. "Of Norms, Rules, and Markets: A Comment on Samuels," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, X, no. 4 (December 2000): 547-552.
    
    
13. Book Review of Israel Kirzner, The Driving Force of the Market, Humane Studies Review, 13 (1) 2000. [on-line]
    
    
14. Book Review of Robert Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Barry Weingast, Analytical Narratives, Constitutional Political Economy, 11 (2000): 377-379.
    
    
15. Book Review of Ronald Wintrobe, The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXXVIII (December 2000): 946-947.
    
    
16. "Why Read the Classics in Economics?" Library of Economics & Liberty (February 2000). [on-line]
    
    
17. Book Review of James M. Buchanan, Post-Socialist Political Economy, Cato Journal, 19, no. 2 (2000): 337-39.
    
    
18. "Formalism and Contemporary Economics," Critical Review, 12, nos. 1-2 (1998): 173-186.
    
    
19. "Is Economics a Moral Science?," Markets & Morality 1, no. 2 (October 1998): 212-19.
    
    
20. Book Review of Timur Kuran, Private Truths, Public Lies, Constitutional Political Economy, 8 (1997): 89-91.
    
    
21. Book Review of N. Scott Arnold, The Philosophy and Economics of Market Socialism, Public Choice, 91 (1997): 417-419.
    
    
22. Book Review of Carol Graham, Safety Nets, Politics and Economic Reform, Eastern Economic Journal, 22, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 101-102.
    
    
23. Book Review of Viktor Vanberg, Rules and Choice in Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 30, no. 3 (September 1996): 421-424.
    
    
24. Book Review of Joseph Stiglitz, Whither Socialism?, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXIV (March 1996): 189-191.
    
    
25. Book Review of Malcolm Rutherford, Institutions in Economics, History of Political Economy, 28, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 527-529.
    
    
26. Book Review of Brian McCormick, Hayek and the Keynesian Avalanche, Review of Political Economy, 8, no. 3 (July 1996): 338-341.
    
    
27. Book Review of Raimondo Cubeddu, The Philosophy of the Austrian School, History of Economic Ideas, 3, no. 1 (1995): 161-163.
    
    
28. Book Review Essay of Bruce Caldwell, ed., Carl Menger and His Legacy in Economics, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 13 (1995): 287-295.
    
    
29. Book Review of Yuri N. Maltsev, ed., Requiem for Marx, Austrian Economics Newsletter (Summer 1995): 5-6.
    
    
30. Book Review of David Gordon, Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Freedom, Exploitation and Justice, Reason Papers, No. 19 (Fall 1994): 175-180.
    
    
31. Book Review of C.D. Foster, Privatization, Public Ownership and the Regulation of Natural Monopoly, Journal of Economic Literature, 32 (December 1994): 1916-1918.
    
    
32. Book Review of Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, John S. Earle, et. al., The Privatization Process in Central Europe, Vol. 1, and The Privatization Process in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic States, Vol. 2, Cato Journal, 14, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 163-165.
    
    
33. "Ludwig Lachmann and His Contribution to Economic Science," Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 1 (1994): 229-232.
    
    
34. "Credibility, the Monetary Regime, and Economic Reform in the Former Soviet Union," Cato Journal, 12, no. 3 (Winter 1993): 577-584.
    
    
35. Book review of Merton Peck and Thomas Richardson, ed., What is to be Done?, Public Choice, 75 (1993): 288-290.
    
    
36. Book review of Max Alter, Carl Menger and the Origins of Austrian Economics, Journal of Economic History, 52, no. 2 (June 1992): 519-521.
    
    
37. "The Soviet Experiment with Pure Communism: A Rejoinder to Nove," Critical Review, 5, no. 1 (1991): 123-128.
    
    
38. Book review of Jack High, Maximizing, Action and Market Adjustment, Southern Economic Journal, 58, no. 2 (October 1991): 540-542.
    
    
39. Book review of Svetozar Pejovich, The Economics of Property Rights, Cato Journal, 11, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1991): 169-171.
    
    
40. Book review of Jurgen Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences, Southern Economic Journal, 57, no. 1 (July 1990): 251-252.
    
    
41. Book review of Ronald Liebowitz, ed., Gorbachev's New Thinking, Business Economics, 25, no.2 (April 1990): 68.
    
    
42. "Comment on Joseph Farrell, 'Information and the Coase Theorem,'" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3, no. 2 (May 1989): 195-197.
    
    
43. "Apartheid and the Market: A Response to Hoffenberg," Critical Review, 1, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 133-134. (Co-authored with Steven Horwitz and David Prychitko).
    
    
44. "The Roots of Apartheid: A Book Review Essay," Critical Review, 1, no. 1 (Winter 1986-1987):115-122. (Co-authored with Steven Horwitz and David Prychitko).
    
    
45. Book Review of Alexander Shand, The Capitalist Alternative: An Introduction to Neo-Austrian Economics, Market Process, 4, no. 1 (Winter 1986): 16-17.
    
    

4. Contributions to Books

1. “Concerting Entrepreneurship: An International Public Good,” in Pier Carlo Padoan and Gavin Boyd, eds., Structural Partnering for a New Atlantic Economy: Complementary Entrepreneurship for Balanced Interdependence (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.), Pier Carlo Padoan and Gavin Boyd, eds., 2005: 199-226. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne)
   
   
2. "Hayek vs. the Neoclassicists: Lessons from the Socialist Calculation Debate," in,The Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.), Norman Barry, ed. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson)
   
   
3. "James M. Buchanan (1919-)," in, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press), Dan Krier and Jean Van Delinder, eds., (2005):373-377. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne).
   
   
4. "Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)," in, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press), Dan Krier and Jean Van Delinder, eds., (2005):1075-1077. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne).
   
   
5. "Frank H. Knight (1885-1972)," in, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press), Dan Krier and Jean Van Delinder, eds., (2005):1322-1325. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne).
   
   
6. "Swedish Influences, Austrian Advances: The Contributions of the Swedish and Austrian Schools to Market Process Theory," 2004, In, The Evolution of the Market Process: Austrian and Swedish Economics (Routledge Publishing), Michel Bellet, Sandye Gloria-Palermo and Abdallah Zouache, (Eds.), pp. 20 - 31. (Co-authored with Chris Coyne).
   
   
7. “The Subjectivist Methodology of Austrian Economics and Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry,” (with Don Lavoie and Virgil Storr) in Elias Khalil, ed., Dewey, Pragmaticism and Economic Methodology. New York: Routledge, 2004: 327-356.
   
   
8. “Rule of Law,” (with Ryan Oprea) in Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds., The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003,Vol. 2, 507-510.
   
   
9. “An Austrian Perspective on Public Choice” (with Peter Leeson) in Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds., The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003, Vol. 2, 27-32.
   
   
10. “The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000” (with Peter Leeson) in Warren Samuels, Jeff Biddle and John Davis, eds., A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003: 445-453.
    
    
11. “Public Choice and Socialism” (with Peter Leeson) in Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds., The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003, Vol. 2, 439-444.
    
    
12. “F. A. Hayek (1899-1992),” in Encyclopedia of Conservativism (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Press, 2003): 300-303. (Co-authored with Ryan Oprea).
    
    
13. “Making the Menu: Russia’s Recipe for Calculating Political-Economy Constraints,” in Steven Pressman, ed., Alternative Theories of the State (Brookfield, VT: Avebury Publishers, 2003), in press.
    
    
14. “Akerlof Problems and Hayek Solutions: Local Knowledge and Self-governance in E-Commerce,” in Jack Birner, ed., Austrian Perspectives on the New Economy (London: Routledge, 2003), in press. (Co-authored with Mark Steckbeck).
    
    
15. “Der Platz von Mises’ Nationalökonomie in der modernen Politökonomik,” in Ludwig von Mises’ Nationalökonomie (Düsseldorf, Germany: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, 2002): 35-58. [Translated into German by publisher for the reprint of Mises’ text in the “Klassiker der Nationalökonomie” series]
    
    
16. "Putting the Political Back Into Political Economy," in Steve Medema and Jeff Biddle, Economics Broadly Conceived: Essays in Honor of Warren Samuels (New York: Routledge, 2001): 203-216.
    
    
17. "F.A. Hayek as an Intellectual Historian," in Steve Medema and Warren Samuels, eds., Creating a Disciplinary Memory (New York: Routledge, 2001): 117-128.
    
    
18. "Rational Choice and Human Agency in Economics and Sociology: Exploring the Weber-Austrian Connection," in Herbert Giersch, eds., Merits and Limits of Markets (Berlin: Springer, 1998): 53-81.
    
    
19. "Lachmann's Policy Activism: An Austrian critique of Keynesian proclivities," in Roger Koppl and Gary Mongiovi, eds., Subjectivism and Economic Analysis: Essays in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann (London: Routledge, 1998): 163-182. (Co-authored with Steven Sullivan).
    
    
20. "James M. Buchanan and the Rebirth of Political Economy," in Steve Pressman and Ric Holt, eds., Against the Grain: Dissent in Economics (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998): 21-39.
    
    
21. "Ludwig von Mises," in John Davis, Uskali Maki, Wade Hands, eds., The Handbook of Economic Methodology (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998): 534-540.
    
    
22. "Coase, Communism, and the Black Box of the Soviet-Type Firm," in Steven Medema, ed., Coasean Economics: Law and Economics and the New Institutional Economics (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1998): 193-207.
    
    
23. "What is Wrong with Neoclassical Economics (And What is Still Wrong with Austrian Economics)," in Fred Foldvary, ed., Beyond Neoclassical Economics (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996): 22-40.
    
    
24. "Credibility, the Monetary Regime, and Economic Reform in the former Soviet Union," in James Dorn and Roustem Noureev, eds., Monetary Reform in the Post-Communist Countries (Moscow: Catallaxy Press, 1995): 64-72. [In Russian].
    
    
25. "Credibility, Commitment and Soviet Economic Reform," in Edward Lazear, ed., Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia:Realities of Reform (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1995): 247-275.
    
    
26. "The Failed Political Economy of Government Management in East and West," in James Dorn and Larisa Piyasheva, eds., From Plan to Market: The Future of the Post-Communist Republics (Moscow: Catallaxy Press, 1993): 295-306. [in Russian]
    
    
27. "The Collapse of Communism in the USSR: Cold War Victory or Cold War Illusion?," in Anandi Sahu and James Paine, eds., Defense Spending and Economic Growth (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993): 187-201.
    
    
28. "Competition," in William Outhwaite and Tom Bottomore, eds., The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992): 100-103.
    
    
29. "Entrepreneurship," in William Outhwaite and Tom Bottomore, eds., The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992): 196-198.
    
    
30. "Economic Education and Social Change," in John Robbins and Mark Spangler, ed., A Man of Principle: Essays in Honor of Hans F. Sennholz (Grove City, PA: Grove City College Press, 1992): 63-74.
    
    
31. "The Austrian Critique and the Demise of Socialism: The Soviet Case," in Richard Ebeling, ed., Austrian Economics: Perspectives on the Past and Prospects for the Future (Hillsdale: Hillsdale College Press, 1991): 181-231.
    
    
32. "The Reagan Regulatory Regime: Rhetoric vs. Reality," in Anandi Sahu and Ronald Tracy, ed., The Economic Legacy of the Reagan Years (New York: Praeger, 1991): 117-123.
    
    
33. "The Business of Government and Government as a Business," in Richard H. Fink and Jack C. High, ed., A Nation in Debt: Economists Debate the Federal Budget Deficit (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1987): 272-286. (Co-authored with Jerome Ellig).
    
    

5. Academic Working Papers

a. Under review at journals

b. Work-in-Progress

• "Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics" (with Peter Leeson and Chris Coyne).
  
• “Hayek and Mises: Intertwined Research Programs, Separate Academic Fates --- A Review Essay on Bruce Caldwell’s Hayek’s Challenge. [invited contribution to Southern Economics Journal].
  
  
• The New Theory of Government—Nonprofit Partnership: A Hayekian Critique of the Salamon Paradigm (with David Prychitko).
  
  

6. Non-Academic Publications

• Book Review of Paul Berman’s Terror and Liberalism, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Summer 2003).
  
  
• Book Review of T. Cowen, Creative Destruction, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Winter 2003).
  
  
• Book Review of W. Baumol, Free Market Innovative Machine, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Fall 2002).
  
  
• Book Review of S. Miller, Paving Wall Street, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Summer 2002).
  
  
• Book Review of J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Winter 2002).
  
  
• Book Review of Israel M. Kirzner, Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Fall 2001).
  
  
• Book Review of The Handbook of Experimental Economics, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Summer 2001): 3.
  
  
• Book Review of Roy Porter, The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Spring 2001): 4.
  
  
• Book Review of Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point, IDEAS INTO ACTION (Fall 2000).
  
  
• "Good Times & Bad: A Review of James Grant, The Trouble with Prosperity," The Money Review (Summer 1997): 8-13.
  
  
• "Economic Research and Economic Education," The Freeman (January 1997): 2-3.
  
  
• "From Here to There: A Review of Marshall Goldman, Lost Opportunity," The Money Review (Nov/Dec 1996): 27, 30-31.
  
  
• "A Grand Time Was Had By All: A Review of Robert Samuelson, The Good Life and Its Discontnets," The Money Review (July/Aug 1996): 7-8.
  
  
• "Classics Reconsidered: Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics in The Freeman (May 1996): 411.
  
  
• "Whose Economics, Which Economic Liberalism," The Freeman (December 1995): 746-747.
  
  
• Book Review of Murray N. Rothbard, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, and Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. II, in Economic Affairs (Summer 1995): 14-17.
  
  
• Book Review of Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss, The Freeman (June 1995): 399-400.
  
  
• "Morality as Cooperation," Religion & Liberty (May/June 1995): 6-9.
  
  
• "The Story of a Movement: Essay review of Karen Vaughn, Austrian Economics in America," The Freeman (May 1995): 322-326.
  
  
• Book Review of Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival, The Freeman (March 1995): 198-199.
  
  
• Book Review of Israel M. Kirzner, ed., Classics in Austrian Economics, 3 volumes, The Freeman (February 1995): 134-135.
  
  
• "Shifting the Terms of the Debate," The Freeman (May 1994): 218-219.
  
  
• "From Marx to Mises: A Review Essay," The Freeman (August 1993) 322-325.
  
  
• "Yeltsin's Shock Therapy Applied Too Little Voltage," Orange County Register (Sunday, January 31, 1993), op-ed page.
  
  
• "F.A. Hayek, 1899-1992," The Freeman (August 1992) 300-303.
  
  
• "Constitutional Erosion Caused Capitalist Decay," The World and I (November 1991) 540-542.
  
  
• Book Review of Richard Wagner, To Promote the General Welfare, The Freeman (October 1991) 395-397.
  
  
• Book Review of Janos Kornai, The Road to a Free Economy, The Freeman, 41, no. 4 (April 1991) 162-163.
  
  
• Book Review of Anthony De Jasay, Market Socialism, The Freeman, 41, no. 3 (March 1991) 114-115.
  
  
• Book Review of Mancur Olson, et. al., Ideas, Interests and Consequences, The Freeman, 41, no. 2 (February 1991) 79-80.
  
  
• Book Review of Mark Skousen, Economics on Trial, The Loyola Journal of Economics (December 1990) 3-4.
  
  "Soviet Admissions: Communism Doesn't Work," The Freeman, 40, no. 2 (February 1990) 50-56. Reprinted in A World Without Walls: Selected Readings (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1990) 14-20; reprinted in Richard M. Ebeling, ed., Disaster in Red: The Failure and Collapse of Socialism (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1995): 239-251.
  
  
  
  

Professional Associations

• Editor, Review of Austrian Economics (Kluwer Academic Publishers), 1998-.
  
  
• Editor, New Thinking in Political Economy book series with Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000-
  
  
• Referee for various professional journals and presses including History of Political Economy, Journal of History of Economic Thought, Economics & Philosophy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Southern Economics Journal, and Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, Basil Blackwell, and Routlege.
  
  
• 2000-, Board of Academic Advisors, Association of Private Enterprise Education.
  
  
• 1999-2001, President, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.
  
  
• 1996-1999, Vice President, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.
  
  
• General Editor, along with Israel Kirzner and Mario Rizzo, Advances in Austrian Economics (JAI Press), 1994-1998.
  
  
• Editorial Board, Review of Political Economy (1995-2000)
  
  
• Contributing Editor to Critical Review.
  
  
• Managing Editor of Market Process, August 1984-May 1987.
  
  
• Member: American Economic Association, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Public Choice Society, History of Economics Society, Mont Pelerin Society, and the International Network for Economic Method.
  
  
  
  

Academic Honors and Research Grants

• 2005- Jack Kennedy Award for Alumni Achievement, Grove City College.
  
  
• 2005- Charles Koch Distinguished Alumnus of the Institute for Humane Studies.
  
  
• 2005- Distinguished Scholar Award, Association of Private Enterprise Education.
  
  
• 2004- F. A. Hayek Fellow, London School of Economics.
  
  
• Oloffson/Weaver Family --- $30,000 for dissertation fellowship [2003-2004 – Scott Beaulier]
  
  
• H. B. Earhart Foundation --- $25,000 for dissertation fellowship
  
  
• Kaplan Foundation --- $75,000 for Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
  
  
• CIP-GMU Law School --- $200,000 to sponsor research on The Law, Economics and Technology of Private Enforcement on the Internet. Research will eventually be published in the GMU Journal of Economics, Law and Public Policy.
  
  
• Faculty Fellow, Charles University/Georgetown University American Institute for Political and Economic Studies, Prague, CZ (sponsored by The Fund for American Studies). Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Summer 2002.
  
  
• Templeton Guest Lecture, Bucharest, Romania – May 2002.
  
  
• Templeton Foundation Freedom Project – award recipient in 1999 and 2001 (with Todd Zywicki) for course design on The Rule of Law and Economic Prosperity.
  
  
• 1999 – Templeton Institute for the Advanced Study of Freedom (Newport, RI)
  
  
• 2000 – Templeton Institute for the Advanced Study of Freedom (Galway, Ireland)
  
  
• 1998-2003 Principal Investigator, Project on New Social Inquiry, Kaplan Fund.
  
  
• 1999-2003 Principal Investigator, Weaver Dissertation Fellowship.
  
  
• 2000-2002 Principal Investigator, H. B. Earhart Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy.
  
  
• 1998-2002 Principal Investigator, Review of Austrian Economics, Scaife Foundation.
  
  
• Faculty Fellow, Stockholm School of Economics, Division D, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2001.
  
  
• 1999 Smith Prize from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics for “What Went Wrong with Economics?,” Critical Review 11 (1) 1997, 11-65.
  
  
• Henry George Distinguished Lecture, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY October 1998.
  
  
• Bowman Distinguished Lecture, Indiana Weslyan University, March 1998.
  
  
• Faculty Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research Into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany, January 1997.
  
  
• Otto Eckstein Prize (Honorable Mention) from the Eastern Economic Association for the paper "Hayek's The Road to Serfdom Revisited," Eastern Economic Journal (Winter 1995).
  
  
• Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, July 1995.
  
  
• 1995 Golden Dozen Teaching Award in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching, College of Arts and Science, New York University.
  
  
• 1994 F.A. Hayek Fellowship Award, The Mont Pelerin Society. First Place in international paper competition on the legacy of F. A. Hayek.
  
  
• 1992-1993 National Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
  
  
• 1992-1993 Faculty Research Grant, Earhart Foundation, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  
  
• Visiting Professor, Central European University, Prague, CZ, January 1993.
  
  
• Visiting Scholar, The Institut for International Political and Economic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, January 1993.
  
  
• 1992 Summer Faculty Seminar on Economy and Culture, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University.
  
  
• 1992 AEA Meetings, Association for Comparative Economic Studies Paper Competition Winner.
  
  
• Oakland University Faculty Research Fellowship, Summer 1990.
  
  
• School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Summer Research Fellowship, 1989.
  
  
• 1989 William P. Snavely Award Winner - Outstanding Graduate Student in Economics, George Mason University.
  
  
• 1988 AEA Meetings, Omicron Delta Epsilon Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner.
  
  
• Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University (Summer 1988).
  
  
• F. A. Hayek Fund for Scholars Research Grant, Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993).
  
  
• Claude R. Lambe Research Fellowship, The Center for the Study of Market Processes, George Mason University (1984-1987).
  
  
• Graduated with High Honors in Economics, Grove City College, May 1983.