Steven G. Horwitz
Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
TEL (315) 229-5731
FAX (315) 229-5819
EMAIL sghorwitz@stlawu.edu
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HOME ADDRESS:
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EDUCATION:
Ph. D. 1990 George Mason University. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics.
M. A. 1987 George Mason University. Master of Arts in Economics.
A. B. 1985 The University of Michigan. “With distinction” in Economics and Philosophy.
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE:
8/89 - St. Lawrence University, Department of Economics.
Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics (5/07 - )
Professor of Economics (7/02 - )
Associate Professor of Economics (9/95 – 6/02).
Flora Irene Eggleston Faculty Chair (7/93 – 6/98).
Assistant Professor and Dana Fellow (8/89 - 8/95).7/07 – 9/07 Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University.
Visiting Scholar.5/01 - 7/07 St. Lawrence University, Associate Dean of the First Year
Responsible for all aspects of the University's First-Year Program/First-Year Seminar academic programs. Work in conjunction with the Director of Residential Learning Communities and the Student Life team to coordinate the residential portion of the program, including New Student Orientation. Specific responsibilities include faculty recruitment, development, and evaluation, curriculum development and evaluation, further integrating first year academic and student life, developing and administering budgets, and representing the FYP/FYS in University planning, external relations, and development.7/03 – 6/04 St. Lawrence University, Interim Director, Center for Teaching and Learning.
Responsible for the organization, execution and oversight of all programs sponsored under the auspices of the Center for Teaching and Learning, with the intent of advancing and responding to the professional dialogue on teaching and learning on campus; staying abreast of current teaching issues, pedagogical methods and innovations in higher education; and developing partnerships with academic departments and programs and instructional technology. Specific responsibilities include new faculty orientation and the faculty mentor program, allocating travel funds for pedagogy conferences and small grants for teaching innovations, and other administrative, budgetary, and supervisory activities.9/88 - 6/89 George Mason University, Department of Economics.
Acting Assistant Professor of Economics.
PRIMARY FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION AND INTEREST:
Economics of Gender and the Family, Austrian Economics, the Social Thought of F. A. Hayek, and Political Economy.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST:
Monetary Theory and History, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, American Economic History, Macroeconomics, Public Choice, and the Evolution of Social Institutions.
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective, New York: Routledge, 2000. (ISBN 0-415-19762-7, part of the series Foundations of the Market Process, edited by Lawrence H. White and Mario J. Rizzo). Co-winner of the 2001 Smith Prize in Austrian Economics, for the best contribution to Austrian economics in the previous three years.
Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. (ISBN 0-8133-8514-8, part of the series Studies in the History, Methods, and Boundaries of Economics, edited by Axel Leijonhufvud and Donald McCloskey).
Volumes Edited:
Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 4, (with Peter J. Boettke), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997.
Monographs:
'Of Human Action but not Human Design': Liberalism in the Tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1999 Annual Frank P. Piskor Lecture, Canton, NY: St. Lawrence University, 2000.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Analogous Models of Complexity: The Austrian Theory of Capital and Hayek's Theory of Cognition as Adaptive Classifying Systems,” Advances in Austrian Economics 15, 2008, forthcoming (invited contribution).
“Monetary Calculation and the Extension of Social Cooperation into Anonymity,” Journal of Private Enterprise Education, 23 (2), Spring 2008, forthcoming.
“Heterogeneous Human Capital, Uncertainty, and the Structure of Plans: A Market Process Approach to Marriage and Divorce” (with Peter Lewin), Review of Austrian Economics, 21 (1), March 2008, pp. 1-21.
“The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics,” (with Peter J. Boettke), History of Political Economy, 37 (1), annual conference volume supplement, 2005, pp. 10-39 (invited contribution).
“The Functions of the Family in the Great Society,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29 (5), September 2005, pp. 669-84.
“Two Worlds at Once: Rand, Hayek, and the Ethics of the Micro and Macro-cosmos,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 6 (2), Spring 2005, pp. 375-403 (invited contribution as part of a symposium on “Ayn Rand Among the Austrians”).
“Monetary Calculation and the Unintended Extended Order: The Misesian Microfoundations of the Hayekian Great Society,” Review of Austrian Economics, 17 (4), December 2004, pp. 307-21.
“Money and the Interpretive Turn: Some Considerations,” Symposium, 8 (2), Summer 2004, pp. 249-66 (invited contribution for a special issue in honor of G. B. Madison).
“Rand, Rush, and De-totalizing the Utopianism of Progressive Rock,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 5 (1), Fall 2003, pp. 161-72 (invited contribution).“The Costs of Inflation Revisited,” Review of Austrian Economics, 16 (1), March 2003, pp. 77-95.
“Comment on Boettke & Subrick and Faulkner,” (symposium on John Searle's philosophy and economics) Journal of Economic Methodology, 9 (1), March 2002, pp. 81-86 (invited comment).“Entrepreneurship, Exogenous Change, and the Flexibility of Capital,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 12 (1), March 2002, pp. 67-77 (invited submission for an issue in honor of Israel Kirzner).
“From Smith to Menger to Hayek: Liberalism in the Spontaneous Order Tradition,” The Independent Review, 6 (1), Summer 2001, pp 81-97. Reprinted in The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today, Robert Higgs and Carl Close, eds., Oakland: Independent Institute, 2006.
“From The Sensory Order to the Liberal Order: Hayek's Non-rationalist Liberalism,” Review of Austrian Economics, 13 (1), March 2000, pp. 23-40.
“Keynes and Capitalism One More Time: A Further Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, 12 (1/2), Winter-Spring 1998, pp. 95-111 (invited reply).
“Monetary Calculation and Mises's Critique of Planning,” History of Political Economy, 30 (3), Fall 1998, pp. 427-50.
“Labor Market Coordination and Monetary Equilibrium: W. H. Hutt's Place in 'Pre-Keynesian' Macro,” Journal of Labor Research, 18 (2), Spring 1997, pp. 205-26 (invited submission).
“Reply to Cottrell,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18 (2), Fall 1996, pp. 314-318.
“Capital Theory, Inflation, and Deflation: The Austrians and Monetary Disequilibrium Theory Compared,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18 (2), Fall 1996, pp.287-308. Reprinted in The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, Vol III: Economics, Peter J. Boettke, ed., Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2000.
“Keynes on Capitalism: Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, 10 (3), Summer 1996, pp. 353-72 (invited submission).
“Money, Money Prices, and the Socialist Calculation Debate,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 3, 1996, pp. 59-77. Reprinted in Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, Vol. IX, Peter J. Boettke, ed., New York: Routledge, 2000.
“Feminist Economics: An Austrian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 2 (2), December 1995, pp. 259-279.
“A Property Rights Approach to Free Banking,” (with Howard Bodenhorn), Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 5 (4), December 1994, pp. 505-519.
“Systemic Rationality and the Effects of Financial Regulation: Rejoinder to Kindleberger,” Critical Review, 8 (4), Fall 1994, pp. 615-621.
“Subjectivism, Institutions, and Capital: Comment on Mongiovi and Lewin,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 1, 1994, pp. 279-288.
“Complementary Non-Quantity-Theory Approaches to Money: Hilferding's Finance Capital and Free Banking Theory,” History of Political Economy, 26 (2), Summer 1994, pp. 221-238.
“Spontaneity and Design in the Evolution of Institutions: The Similarities of Money and Law,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 4 (4), December 1993, pp. 571-587.
“Government Intervention: Source or Scourge of Monetary Order?” review essay on Charles Kindleberger's Manias, Crashes, and Panics, Critical Review, 7 (2/3), Spring/Summer 1993, pp. 237-257.
“Monetary Exchange as an Extra-Linguistic Social Communication Process,” Review of Social Economy, 50 (2), Summer 1992, pp. 193-214. Reprinted in Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations: Hermeneutics Applied to Economics, David L. Prychitko, editor, Aldershot, UK: Avebury Publishing, 1995, chapter 9, pp. 154-175.
“The Political Economy of Inflation: Public and Private Choices,” Durell Journal of Money and Banking, 3 (4), November 1991, pp. 26-37.
“A Subjectivist Approach to the Demand for Money,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 1 (4), December 1990, pp. 459-71.
“Competitive Currencies, Legal Restrictions, and the Origins of the Fed: Some Evidence from the Panic of 1907,” Southern Economic Journal, 56 (3), January 1990, pp. 639-49. Reprinted in The International Library of Macroeconomic and Financial History: Free Banking (3 vols.), Lawrence White, editor, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1993, v. 2, pp. 330-340.
“Keynes's Special Theory,” Critical Review, 3 (3/4), Summer/Fall 1989, pp. 411-34.
“Prices, the Price Level, and Macroeconomic Coordination: Hutt on Keynesian Economics,” Market Process, 6 (2), Fall 1988, pp. 31-36. Reprinted in The Market Process: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Economics, Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, editors, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 156-165.
“Misreading the 'Myth': Rothbard on the Theory and History of Free Banking,” Market Process, 6 (1), Spring 1988, pp. 35-40. Reprinted in The Market Process: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Economics, Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, editors, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 166-176.
“Misesian Integrity: A Comment on Barnes” (with Peter J. Boettke), Austrian Economics Newsletter, Fall 1987, pp. 14, 10.
“Apartheid and the Market: A Response to Hoffenberg,” (with Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko), Critical Review, 1 (3), Summer 1987, pp. 133-34.
“The Roots of Apartheid,” (with Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko), Critical Review, 1 (1), Winter 1986-87, pp. 115-22.
“Beyond Equilibrium Economics: Reflections on the Uniqueness of the Austrian Tradition,” (with Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko), Market Process, 4 (2), Fall 1986, pp. 6-9, 20-25. Reprinted in The Market Process: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Economics, Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, editors, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 62-79. Reprinted in Modern Austrian Economics: Archeology of a Revival, Volume 2: The Age of Dispersal, Sandye Gloria-Palermo, general editor, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002, pp. 123-32.
Contributions to Edited Volumes:
“Money,” in Key Concepts in Free Markets: Executive Summaries in the History and Theory of Free Market Economics, Jonathan Fortier, ed., Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, forthcoming
“Spontaneous Order,” in Key Concepts in Free Markets: Executive Summaries in the History and Theory of Free Market Economics, Jonathan Fortier, ed., Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, forthcoming.
“Family,” in The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, Ronald Hamowy, ed., New York: SAGE Publishing, 2008, forthcoming.
“Spontaneous Order, Free Trade, and Globalization,” in The Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics, Norman Barry, ed., Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
“Catallaxy, Competition, and 21st Century Capitalism: An Agenda for Economics” in Future Directions for Heterodox Economics, John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett Jr., eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008, pp. 225-39.
“Francisco d'Anconia on Money: A Socio-economic Analysis,” in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion, Edward W.Younkins, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 235-46.
“Language, Monetary Exchange, and the Structure of the Economic Universe: An Austrian-Searlean Synthesis,” in Economics and the Mind, Barbara Montero and Mark White, eds., New York: Routledge, 2007, pp. 75-88.
“Monetary Disequilibrium Theory and Austrian Macroeconomics: Further Thoughts on a Synthesis,” in Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager, Roger Koppl, ed., Routledge, 2006, pp. 166-85.
“Comparative Economic Systems” in Modern Applications of Austrian Thought, Jurgen Backhaus, editor, Routledge, 2005, pp. 576-611.
“The Austrian Marginalists: Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, and Wieser,” chapter 17 in The Blackwell Companion to the History of Economic Thought, Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle, John B. Davis, editors, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 262-77.
“Say's Law of Markets: An Austrian Appreciation,” in Two Hundred Years of Say's Law: Essays on Economic Theory's Most Controversial Principle, Steven Kates, editor, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2003, pp. 82-98.“F. A. Hayek,” in Reader's Guide to the History of Science, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, pp. 324-26.
“Hierarchical Metaphors in Austrian Institutionalism: A Friendly Subjectivist Caveat,” in Methodological Issues in the Subjectivist Paradigm: Essays in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann, Roger Koppl and Gary Mongiovi, editors, Routledge, 1998.
“The Economics of Time and Money: An Introduction to a Symposium on Austrian Macroeconomics,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 4, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997.
“Inflation,” in The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Peter J. Boettke, editor, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 402-07.
“Subjectivism,” in The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Peter J. Boettke, editor, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 17-22.
“Does Eastern Europe Need a New (Marshall) Plan?” in The Collapse of Development Planning, Peter J. Boettke, editor, New York: New York University Press, 1994, pp. 210-227.
“Poland and the Political Economy of Price Reform” in The Market Solution to Economic Development in Eastern Europe, Robert W. McGee, editor, Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1992, pp. 245-262.
Book Reviews:
Review of Christopher Coyne, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
“The Conventional Wisdom and the Pretense of Knowledge,” review of Richard Parker, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, and His Economics, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 26, 2008, forthcoming.
Review of Edward Feser, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Hayek, History of Political Economy, forthcoming.
Review of Jurgen G. Backhaus, editor, Entrepreneurship, Money, and Coordination: Hayek's Theory of Cultural Evolution, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 29 (3), 2007, pp. 379-81.
Review of F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition (part of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell), Economic History Services website (EH.net), http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1226, June 2007.
Review of Charles R. McCann, Jr., Individualism and Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought, History of Economic Ideas, 14 (1), 2006.
Review of Timothy Messer-Kruse, Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money, Journal of American History, 92 (4), March 2006, pp. 1479-80.
Review of John Ermisch, An Economic Analysis of the Family, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 58 (4), December 2005, pp. 554-56.
“F. A. Hayek: Austrian Economist,” review essay on Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's Challenge and Alan Ebenstein's Hayek's Journey, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27 (1), March 2005, pp. 71-85.
Review of Chris Sciabarra, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism, Review of Austrian Economics, 17 (4), December 2004, pp. 457-61.
“From Revival to Flourishing: Thirty Years of the Austrian School,” a review of Sandye Gloria-Palermo, ed., Modern Austrian Economics: Archaeology of a Revival 3 vols, Journal of Economic Methodology 11 (2), June 2004, pp. 249-61.
Review of Roger Koppl, Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations, Journal of Economic Literature 42 (2), June 2004, pp, 509-11.
Review of Kenneth Hoover, Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics, available online at Economic History Services website (EH.net), http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0766.shtml, April 2004.
Review of Leland Yeager, Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation, available online at Hayek-L Archives http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0106&L=hayek-l&F=&S=&P=16364, June 2001.
Review of F. A. Hayek, Good Money, Parts 1 and 2, The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, volumes 5 and 6, edited with introductions by Stephen Kresge, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 23 (1), March 2001, pp. 99-104.
Review of Allen J. Matusow, Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes, The Independent Review, 3 (4), March 1999, pp. 612-14.
Review of Nicolai Foss, The Austrian School and Modern Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, 11 (1/2), 1999, pp. 163-67.
Review of Stephen F. Frowen, ed., Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher: A Critical Retrospect, available online at Economic History Services website (EH.net), http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0097.shtml, June 1998.Review of Jack Birner and Rudy Van Zijp, eds., Hayek, Co-ordination, and Evolution, Southern Economic Journal, 62 (4), April 1996, pp. 1115-16.
Review of Raymond Vickers' Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926, The Journal of American History, December 1995, pp. 1263-1264.
Review of Robert Holton and Bryan Turner's Max Weber on Economy and Society, Reason Papers 19, Fall 1994, pp. 127-131.
Review of Richard Timberlake's Monetary Policy in the United States, Constitutional Political Economy, 5 (1), Winter 1994, pp. 117-119.
“The Joy of Text,” review of David Colander's Macroeconomics, Market Process, 5 (2), Fall 1987, pp. 28, 30.
Review of Lew Rockwell, ed., The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective, Austrian Economics Newsletter, Summer 1987, pp. 9-11.
PUBLIC POLICY, POPULAR PRESS, AND ECONOMIC EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS:
“Three Contemporary Economic Myths About Income and Material Well-Being,” educational note, Journal of Private Enterprise Education 24 (1), Fall 2008, forthcoming.
“Economists and Scarcity,” The Freeman, 2008, forthcoming.
“Government Intervention is Needed to Solve the Housing Crisis? It Just Ain’t So,” The Freeman, 58 (4), May 2008, forthcoming.
“Profit: Not Just a Motive,” The Freeman, 58 (2), March 2008, pp. 21-23.
“Making Hurricane Response More Effective: Lessons from the Private Sector and the Coast Guard During Katrina” Policy Comment #17, Mercatus Center, Washington, DC, March 19, 2008.
“Free-Market Money: A Key to Peace,” The Freeman, 58 (1), January-February 2008, pp. 13-15.
“Capitalism and the Family,” The Freeman, July-August 2007, 57 (6), pp. 26-30.
“Leftists for Hayek: What Happens When a Socialist Applies the Insights of Austrian Economics?” review of Ted Burczak's Socialism After Hayek, Reason Magazine, July 2007, 39 (3), pp. 65-69.
“Hayek and Freedom,” The Freeman, May 2006, 56 (4), pp. 26-28.
“Free Trade and the Climb out of Poverty,” The Freeman, March 2005, 55 (2), pp. 8-11.
Review of James A. Dorn, ed., “The Future of Money in the Information Age,” The Freeman, 47 (12), December 1997, pp. 760-762
“Understanding Say's Law of Markets,” The Freeman, 47 (1), January 1997, pp. 4-7.
“Liberty and the Domain of Self-Interest,” The Freeman, 46 (11), November 1996, pp. 726-730.
“Looking Backward to Look Ahead,” review of the Durell Foundation's Money and Banking: The American Experience, The Money Review, 1 (1), July 1996, pp. 24-26.
“Banking and Freedom in the 50 years of FEE,” The Freeman, 46 (5), May 1996, pp. 310-14.
“Thinking Carefully About Macroeconomics,” The Freeman, 45 (12), December 1995, pp. 781-784.
Review of Foundation for Economic Education's Inflation is Theft, The Freeman, 45 (6), June 1995, pp. 401-402.
“Health Care Reform: Deja Vu All Over Again,” (with Ronald M. Horwitz), The Freeman, 44 (12), December 1994, pp. 698-700.
“Commercial Banking in a Free Society,” The Freeman, 44 (7), July 1994, pp. 370-373.
Review of Richard Timberlake's Monetary Policy in the United States, The Freeman, 44 (5), May 1994, pp. 266-67.
“Financial Services,” Chapter 20 in Coming Out of the Ice: A Plan to Make the 1990s Illinois' Decade, Chicago: The Heartland Institute, 1990, pp. 327-37.
“Safety, Service, and Stability: Interstate Banking for the Midwest and Beyond,” Policy Study 28, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, November 17, 1989. Excerpts reprinted in Consumer Research magazine, 73 (10), October 1990, pp. 22-25.
“Financial Deregulation and Antitrust,” Washington Antitrust Report, 2 (4), September 1988, pp. 1-2.
“What Not to Expect From Rational Expectations,” Nomos: Studies in Spontaneous Order, 6 (1), January/February 1988, pp. 18-21, 26-27.
“Interstate Banking: The Reform That Won't Go Away,” (with G. A. Selgin), Policy Analysis 97, Cato Institute, Washington, DC, December 15, 1987.
“Interstate Banking: Toward a Competitive Financial System,” (with Michael Becker and Robert P. O'Quinn), Issue Alert 18, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, Washington, DC, September 16, 1987.
PEDAGOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS:
“The Evolution of the American Family,” (with Cathy Crosby-Currie) section of course syllabus reprinted in The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach, revised edition, Barbara Millis and Margaret Cohen, eds., Jossey-Bass, 2008, forthcoming.
“Are Our Graduates College-Writing Ready? What High Schools Could Do to Help,” Education Week, 27 (2), September 5, 2007, p. 27.
“A Writing Program that Works: St. Lawrence's Faculty-Driven First-Year Program,” (with Hillory Oakes), Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Clarion Call, August 29, 2007.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS, COLLOQUIA, AND SEMINARS:
Conference co-organizer and presenter at upcoming Wirth Institute conference on “What is Austrian About Austrian Economics?” Mississauga, ON, October 17-18, 2008.
Participant at upcoming Liberty Fund Socratic Seminar on “Post-Hayekian Socialism’s Challenge to Classical Liberalism,” Indianapolis, IN, September 26-28, 2008.
Participant at upcoming Liberty Fund colloquium on “Liberty in Late Scholastic Thought,” Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 15-18, 2008.
“Wal-Mart to the Rescue: Private Enterprise’s Response to Hurricane Katrina,” presented at the Association for Private Enterprise Education annual meetings, Las Vegas, NV, April 8, 2008.
“Markets, Maslow, and the Evolution of the Modern Family,” presented at the Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, George Mason University, November 6, 2007.
Participant at Liberty Fund colloquium on “The Place of Liberty in the Processes of Economic and Institutional Change,” Hermosa Beach, CA, November 1-4, 2007.
“Is the Family a Spontaneous Order?” presented at “New Directions in the Study of Emergent and Spontaneous Social Orders,” Portsmouth, NH, October 27-30, 2007.
“Markets, Maslow, and the Evolution of the Modern Family,” presented at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, September 14, 2007.
“A Pedagogy for Research-oriented First-Year Seminars” (with Cathy Crosby-Currie) and “Engaging the First-Year Student” (with Michael Arnush, Margaret Lindsey, and Andrea Rossi-Reder) as part of the “First Year Fair,” Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 19, 2007.
Discussant on panels on “Hayek” and “Hayek and Darwin,” Southern Economic Association meetings, Charleston, SC, November 18-21, 2006.
“Using a Residential College Program to Promote Campus Involvement and Reduce High-Risk Drinking: A Look at St. Lawrence's 'First Year Cup'” (with Cathy Crosby-Currie), presented at the ACUHO-I Living-Learning Programs and Residential Colleges Conference, Syracuse, NY, October 15, 2006.
Discussant on several panels at the History of Economics Society meetings, Grinnell, IA, June 23-25, 2006.
Roundtable discussant on “Time, Money and Capital Structure,” Southern Economic Association meetings, Washington, DC, November 18, 2005.
“Analogous Models of Complexity: The Austrian Theory of Capital and Hayek's Theory of Cognition,” presented at Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies conference on Austrian Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 7, 2005.
Roundtable discussant on Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's Challenge, History of Economics Society meetings, Tacoma, WA, June 25-27, 2005.
Discussant on “Austrian Economics and Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom,” Association for Private Enterprise Education meetings, Orlando, FL, April 4, 2005.
“Analogous Models of Complexity: The Austrian Theory of Capital and Hayek's Theory of Cognition,” presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 2004.
“Academic Affairs-Student Life Collaboration in St. Lawrence's First-Year Program,” presentation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities “Educating Intentional Learners” conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 12, 2004.
Participant on roundtable discussion for the 60th anniversary of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, annual meetings of the History of Economics Society, Toronto, ON, June 25-27, 2004.
“The Role of the State in History of Political Economy: The Case of Development Economics” (with Peter J. Boettke), presented at the annual HOPE conference, “The Role of Government in the History of Political Economy,” at Duke University, Durham, NC April 22-25, 2004.
“John Stuart Mill and the Teaching of Social Science and the Law,” (with Cathy Crosby-Currie), poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society meetings, Scottsdale, AZ, March 6, 2004.
“Monetary Calculation and Unintended Economic Order: The Misesian Microfoundations of the Hayekian Great Society,” Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Presidential Address, Southern Economics Association meetings, San Antonio, TX, November 22, 2003.
Participant at Liberty Fund colloquium on “The Economics of William H. Hutt,” Chattanooga, TN, September 13-16, 2003.
Invited talk on “Catallaxy, Competition, and 21st Century Capitalism: An Agenda for Economics” at a plenary session “Visions of (Post-)Capitalism,” at the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics conference “The Future of Heterodox Economics,” Kansas City, June 5-7 2003.
“Social Cooperation and Economic Calculation: From Adam Smith to Ludwig von Mises,” presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, NV, April 6-8, 2003.
“Liberalism Beyond the Individual and the State:The Functions of the Family in the Great Society,” presented at “The Revival of the Public: Politics, Economy, and Ethics,” Chiba University, Tokyo, March 15-17, 2003.
Panel participant on “Experiential Learning Communities: Dialectics of Ideas and Experience” at the Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting, Seattle, January 22-25, 2003.
Pre-2003 activity available on request.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Book Review Editor - The Review of Austrian Economics (1998 - present).
Contributing Editor - Critical Review (1992 - present).
Comite Scientifique - Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines (2000 - present).
Academic Board of Advisors -The Heartland Institute, Chicago, (1989 - present).
Executive Committee member – History of Economics Society (2007 - ).
Secretary/Webmaster – Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (1996 – present), and President-elect/President (2002-03).Referee for – Review of Austrian Economics, Critical Review, Southern Economic Journal, Review of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, American Review of Canadian Studies, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, The Independent Review, Review of Social Economy, Eastern Economic Journal, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, New York University Press, Routledge, Edward Elgar, University Press of America, Earhart Foundation, XanEdu.com, Southwestern Publishing.
Lecturer - Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminars for college students (1995 – present); Fraser Institute Student Seminars in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver (Feb 2000 – present); Foundation for Economic Education Summer Seminar in Austrian Economics (2000 – present); educational seminars for Congressional staffers, sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University (1999 – present); Windsor Liberty Seminar (2006) .
Contributor - “The Austrian Economists” Group Weblog at http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/ and the “Liberty and Power” Group Weblog at http://hnn.us/blogs/4.html.
Listings - Heritage Foundation Directory of Public Policy Experts (1991 - present).
Memberships - Mont Pelerin Society, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Southern Economic Association, International Network for Economic Method, History of Economics Society, Association for Private Enterprise Education.
Consultant on the development of first-year living-learning programs – LeMoyne College, Denison University, Buffalo State University, Skidmore College.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Micro and Macro Principles, Monetary Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Comparative Economic Institutions/Systems, American Economic History, Economics of Gender and the Family, History of Economic Thought, The Political Economy of Utopia, seminars on F.A. Hayek and Austrian economics, Senior Seminar (dual-listed with History) "1856," the Evolution of the American Family and Public Policy and the Family (the latter two as part of SLU's First-Year Program).
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:
Two Worlds at Once: A Classical Liberal Approach to the Evolution of the Modern Family, book project. Work in progress.
Introduction to a Japanese translation of a collection of F. A. Hayek’s “Writings in Economics,” Itaru Shimazu, editor, Tokyo: Shunjusha Publishing. Draft completed and submitted.
“Routines, Decentralized Authority, and Institutional Environments: Explaining Wal-Mart's Effective Response to Hurricane Katrina,” working paper.
“Markets, Maslow, and the Evolution of the Modern Family,” fully drafted working paper.
“Is the Family a Spontaneous Order?” fully drafted working paper.
“Wal-Mart to the Rescue: Private Enterprise’s Response to Hurricane Katrina,” fully drafted working paper.
“Gender and the Borders Between Orders: The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres as a ‘Solution’ to Hayek’s ‘Two Worlds at Once’ Problem,” writing in progress.
Editor for the Biographical Dictionary of Austrian Economists, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA, work in progress.
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS:
References available on request
April 2008