Don Lavoie (my PhD thesis advisor) and me

Dissertation Students (chair)

PhD thesis -- "Three Essays in Political Economy with Applications to the Hanseatic League"

Current Position -- Postdoctoral Fellow, Evolutionary Economics Group, Max Planck Institute of Economics-Jena

PhD thesis -- "Heterogeneity and Exchange: La Convivencia"

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy, Troy University

PhD thesis -- "The Calculus of Conflict"

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Johnson and Wales University

Initial Position -- Instructor of Economics, Johnson and Wales University

PhD thesis -- "Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: Three Essays in Business Cycles and the Housing Crisis of 2008"

Current Position -- Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois-Springfield

PhD thesis -- “Institutional Analysis of Ukraine’s Post-Socialist Economic Development”

Current Position -- Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas--Arlington

PhD thesis -- "The Economics of Prison and Street Gangs"

Current Position -- Searle Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University

PhD thesis -- "It's a Knowledge Problem World: Three Essays on the Knowledge Problem in Economics"

Current Position -- Instructor of Economics, Ball State University

PhD thesis -- "The Agency Problem of Empire: British Bureaucracy and Institutional Path Dependence"

Current Position -- Assistant Business Professor, The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani

PhD thesis -- "The Political Economy of Local Governance and Service Provision"

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Hampden-Sydney College

PhD thesis -- "The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economics"

Current Position -- Post-doctoral Fellow, Development Research Institute, New York University

PhD thesis -- "The Political Economy of Urban Reconstruction, Development and Planning"

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

PhD thesis -- "The Political Economy of Repugnance"

Current Position -- Lecturer in Economics, Utah State University

PhD thesis -- "The Imprisoner's Dilemma: The Poltical Economy of Proportionate Punishment"

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Loyola University New Orleans

Anthony Evans (2007)

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

Current Position -- Associate Professor of Economics and Course Director, MEB London, European School of Management

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

Other Positions -- Assistant Professor of Economics and Course Director, MEB London, 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 – F. A. Harper Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Initial Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Hampden-Sydney College

Other Positions -- Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University

Peter Leeson (2005)

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

Current Position -- BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, George Mason University

Initial Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia 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 -- Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise and Associate Professor of Economics, Troy University; Executive Director, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University

Initial Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Mercer University

Other Positions -- 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; Research Associate Professor, Economics Department, George Mason University; Don C. Lavoie Research Fellow, Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, George Mason University

Benjamin Powell (2003)

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

Current Position -- Associate Professor of Economics, Suffolk University

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

Edward Stringham (2002)

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

Current Position -- Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Chair, Fayetteville State University

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

Other Positions -- Associate Professor of Economics, San Jose State University; Shelby Cullom Davis Visiting Associate Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, Trinity College

Sahar Akhtar (2001)

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

Current Position -- Assistant Professsor of Philosophy, University of Virginia

Initial Position -- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brown University

Other Positions -- 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

2011, 2008: University of Economics in Prague

2007: University of Nottingham Business School

2006: Universidad Francisco Marroquin

2003: Universite de Droit, D’Economie et des Sciences d’Aix-Marseille III

2001: Universite de Paris-I-Pantheon-Sorbonne

2001: Stockholm School of Economics

1998: Universite de Paris-IX-Dauphine