Don Lavoie (my PhD thesis advisor) and me

Dissertation Students (chair)

Jennifer Dirmeyer (2009)

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 -- Assistant Professor of Economics and Course Director, MEB London, European School of Management

Initial 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

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

Peter Leeson (2005)

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

Current Position -- Assistant Professor of Economics, 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 -- Assistant Professor of Economics, Mercer 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

Benjamin Powell (2003)

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

Current Position -- Assistant 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 -- 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 -- 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

Frederic Sautet (1998) [committee member]

PhD thesis -- "An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm" (Université de Paris Dauphine)

Current Position -- Senior Research Fellow and Senior Editor of the Mercatus Policy Series, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Initial Position -- Post-Doctoral Fellow, New York University

Other Positions -- Senior Economist, New New Zealand Treasury