Dr. Levy is the Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. The Center is one of the world's most productive academic enterprises, consisting of 15 scholars including Nobel Laureate James Buchanan.

Professor of economics David Levy is a specialist in the impact of expenditures on research and development on productivity and the role of ethics in consumer choice and statistical estimation. Both of these research areas involve taking seriously the notion that ideas, be they scientific or ethical, have consequences. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 articles and has written The Economic Ideas of Ordinary People, published in 1992. His most recent publication How The Dismal Science Got Its Name has produced a wave of outstanding reviews. Dr. Levy recently received an award for the Best Article in the History of Economics by the History of Economics Society. Joint work with Sandra Peart extending and enriching the theme of the anti-hierarchical aspects of market is presented in a profusely illustrated "Secret history of the dismal science" at the Library of Economics and Liberty. Levy contributed recently to the ethical guidelines of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Levy's Ph.D is from the University of Chicago in a thesis directed by the Nobel Laureate George Stigler. He was previously awarded the department citation as the outstanding undergraduate in economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Levy's working papers