Don Lavoie (my PhD thesis advisor) and me

 

Dissertation Students (chair)

Anthony Evans (2007)

PhD thesis -- "Subjectivist Social Change: The Influence of Culture and Ideas on Economic Policy"

Current Position -- Affiliate Lecturer and Researcher, European School of Management

Stephen Miller (2006)

PhD thesis -- "Three Essays on the Economics of Education"

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Carolina University

Chris Coyne (2005)

PhD thesis -- “After War: essays on the mechanisms for successful postwar reconstruction and social change.”

Current Position – Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University


Peter Leeson (2005)

PhD thesis -- “Cooperation and Conflict: self-enforcing exchange among socially heterogeneous agents”

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Christine Polek (2004)

PhD thesis – “Securities laws in transition economies.”

Current Position – Economics Instructor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Scott Beaulier (2004)

PhD thesis -- “Essays on property rights economics: towards an evolutionary theory of property rights and its application.”

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Beloit College

Virgil Storr (2003)

PhD thesis – “Enterprising Slaves and Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas.”

Current Position – Senior Research Fellow & Director of Graduate Student Programs, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Benjamin Powell (2003)

PhD thesis -- “Essays on economic development: considering state planning and market based growth.”

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University

Edward Stringham (2002)

PhD thesis -- “Essays on self-policing networks in financial markets.”

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University

Sahar Akhtar (2001)

PhD thesis -- “Bundled Innovations: An Examination of the Influence of Selling Costs on Innovation.”

Current Position -- PhD student in Philosophy, Duke University

Gail M. Heffernan (1999)

PhD thesis -- “Agency Theory, Innovation, and the Rules of the Game.”

Current Position -- Economics instructor, Florida Institute of Technology