WILLIAM FRANKLIN SHUGHART II
P. O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677−1848
Phone:
(662) 915−7579
Fax: (662) 915−6943
E-mail: shughart@olemiss.edu
Alternate E-mail: wfs2@AggieNetwork.com
Home Address
21 County Road 3024
Oxford, MS 38655
(662) 236−2620
Biographical Data
Date of Birth: December 3, 1947.
Place of Birth: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Marital Status: Married to Hilary C. F. Shughart; father of Willie (July 28, 1987) and Frank (October 1, 1989).
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), 1978, Texas A&M University. Dissertation title: "An Essay on Labor Market Dynamics: Theory and Evidence" (chair of committee: Arthur S. De Vany).
M.S. (Economics), 1970, Texas A&M University. Thesis title: "Patents and the Rationing of Technology" (chair of committee: Melvin L. Greenhut).
B.A. (Economics), 1969, Texas A&M University.
Career Data
Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The University of Mississippi, 1998 to present.
Professor and holder of the Robert M. Hearin Chair, Department of Economics, The University of Mississippi, 1998−2006.
Professor and holder of the P. M. B. Self, William King Self and Henry C. Self Free Enterprise Chair, Department of Economics and Finance, The University of Mississippi, 1988−1998.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and Research Associate, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, 1985−1988.
Associate Professor (1984−1985) and Assistant Professor (1983−1984), Department of Economics, Clemson University.
Special Assistant to the Director (1982−1983) and Economist (1979−1982), Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission.
Lecturer (visiting), Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 1978−1979.
Systems Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses (now CNA Corp.), 1973−1974.
Professional
Associations
Member:
American Economic Association
Southern Economic Association
Western Economic Association
Public Choice SocietyAmerican Political Science Association (Associate Member)
Offices held:
President-elect (2008−2009) and President (2009−2010), Southern Economic Association.
Board of Trustees, Southern Economic Association, 1996−1998 and 2008−2013.
Southern Economic Association Nominating Committee, 1984−1985.
Editorial Positions
Senior Editor, 2005 to present.
Co−Editor, 2004−2005.
Acting European Editor, 2004.
Book Review Editor, 1991−2004.
Associate Editor, 1996−2001, 2003−2006 and 2006−2008.
Managerial and Decision Economics
Book Review Editor, 1994−2008.
Editorial Board Member, 2009 to present.
The Open Political Science Journal
Editorial Advisory Board Member, 2007 to present.
Honors and Awards
Member:
California Scholastic Federation
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Phi Kappa Phi
Outstanding Researcher, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, 1988−1989, 1989−1990, 1990−1991 and 1991−1992.
Outstanding Faculty Member, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, 1991−1992.
Recognized for research on public transit policy by State of Mississippi Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 570, enacted March 1991.
1998 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, for Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination.
Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor, The University of Mississippi, 1998.
Recipient of the 1999 Business Week Award, presented by the Economic Faculty Association of Rotterdam, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
Distinguished Lecturer in Law and Economics, George Mason University Law School, October 21, 2003.
Who's Who in Social Sciences Higher Education.
Who's Who in America, 61st ed., 2007.
Other Affiliations
Senior Fellow (2008 to present), Research Fellow (1995−2007) and member, Board of Advisors (1998 to present), The Independent Institute.
Principal Consultant, Nathan Associates, Inc., 1998 to present.
Member, Board of Policy Advisors, The Heartland Institute, 1999 to present.
Member, Advisory Council, Econ Journal Watch, 2003 to present.
Member, Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, edited by Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
Associate Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, 2004 to present.
Scholar, Round Table Group, Inc., 2004 to present.
President, Oxford Economics, Inc., 2004 to present.
Member of the Task Force on "Taxing the Poor", National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, TX, 2006.
Public Service
Governor-Elect's Education Task Force and co-chair of the Subcommittee on Institutions of Higher Learning, December 1991.
State Job Training Coordinating Council, 1992−1994.
State Auditor's Task Force on Privatization and chair of the Subcommittee on Privatization Criteria, 1992.
Military Service
United States Navy:
Active Duty 1971−1974 (Courier, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1971−1973; Systems Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses, 1973−1974).
U.S. Naval Reserve 1975−1976 (inactive).
Honorable Discharge 1976 (Petty Officer 3rd Class).
PUBLICATIONS
The Organization of Industry. Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, 1990, xvi + 492 pages.
Antitrust Policy and Interest-Group Politics. Foreword by James C. Miller III. New York: Quorum Books, 1990, xviii + 208 pages.
Modern Managerial Economics: Economic Theory for Business Decisions (with William F. Chappell and Rex L. Cottle). Cincinnati, Oh.: South-Western Publishing Co., 1994, xxiii + 659 pages.
The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective (with Fred S. McChesney). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, xi + 379 pages. (Published simultaneously in cloth and paper editions.)
The Organization of Industry, 2nd ed. Houston, Tex.: Dame Publications, Inc., 1997, xxi + 742 pages.
Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination. Foreword by Paul W. McCracken. An Independent Institute Book. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997, xv + 396 pages. (Published simultaneously in cloth and paper editions.) Winner of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation's 1998 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award.
The Political Economy of the New Deal (with Jim F. Couch). Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 1998, xvi + 247 pages.
The Elgar Companion to Public Choice (with Laura Razzolini). Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 2001, xlii + 776 pages. (Paperback edition released April 2003 in the United States and February 2003 in the rest of the world.)
The Economics of Budget Deficits (with Charles K. Rowley and Robert D. Tollison), 2 vols, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 153, ed. by Mark Blaug, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 2002, 1,112 pages (Vol. I: xlviii + 465 pages; Vol. II: xiii + 564 pages).
Policy Challenges and Political Responses: Public Choice Perspectives on the Post-9/11 World (with Robert D. Tollison). Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, 247 pages.
Monographs and Special
Journal Issues
"The Government's War on Mergers: The Fatal Conceit of Antitrust Policy", Policy Analysis, No. 323, Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 22 October 1998, 45 pages.
Editor, "Essays in Honor of Robert D. Tollison", Public Choice (forthcoming).
"Modeling Recruiting District Performance" (with Christopher Jehn). In Richard V. L. Cooper (ed.), Defense Manpower Policy: Presentations from the 1976 RAND Conference on Defense Manpower, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND R-2396-ARPA, 1979, pp. 137−148.
"Smokers versus Nonsmokers" (with Robert D. Tollison). In Robert D. Tollison (ed.), Smoking and Society: Toward a More Balanced Assessment, Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1986, pp. 217−224.
"The Incidence of Taxes on Tobacco" (with James M. Savarese). In Robert D. Tollison (ed.), Smoking and Society: Toward a More Balanced Assessment, Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1986, pp. 285−307.
"The Vote Motive and the Debt: A Contingent Liability Approach" (with Robert D. Tollison). In James M. Buchanan, Charles K. Rowley and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Deficits, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 218−235; reprinted in G. Eusepi (ed.), Rassegna di Lavori Dell'isco, Rome: Instituto Nationale per lo Studio della Conquintura, 1993, pp. 263−281.
"Interest Groups and Deficits" (with Charles K. Rowley and Robert D. Tollison). In James M. Buchanan, Charles K. Rowley and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Deficits, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 263−280.
"Antitrust Recidivism in Federal Trade Commission Data: 1914−1982" (with Robert D. Tollison). In Robert J. Mackay, James C. Miller III and Bruce Yandle (eds.), Public Choice and Regulation: A View from Inside the Federal Trade Commission, Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1987, pp. 255−280.
"Dual Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws" (with Richard S. Higgins and Robert D. Tollison). In Robert J. Mackay, James C. Miller III and Bruce Yandle (eds.), Public Choice and Regulation: A View from Inside the Federal Trade Commission, Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1987, pp. 154−180.
"Voters as Investors: A Rent-Seeking Resolution of the Paradox of Voting" (with W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison). In Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison and Gordon Tullock (eds.), The Political Economy of Rent Seeking, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 241−249.
"Antitrust Policy in the Reagan Administration: Pyrrhic Victories?" In Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle (eds.), Regulation and the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest, An Independent Institute Book, New York: Holmes & Meier, 1989, pp. 89−103.
"Behind the Veil: The Political Economy of Constitutional Change" (with Gary M. Anderson, Delores T. Martin and Robert D. Tollison). In W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Predicting Politics: Essays in Empirical Public Choice, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 89−100.
"The Political Economy of Merger Between Regulated Firms" (with Richard S. Higgins and Robert D. Tollison). In W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Predicting Politics: Essays in Empirical Public Choice, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 221−228.
"Homo Basketballus" (with Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison). In Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Sportometrics, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990, pp. 121−131.
"Public Choice Theory and Antitrust Policy". In Fred S. McChesney and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 7−24.
"Antitrust Enforcement and Foreign Competition" (with Jon D. Silverman and Robert D. Tollison). In Fred S. McChesney and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 179−187.
"A USA/Canada Model of 'Sin' and Other Excise Taxes" (with Brenda Yelvington, Tonya K. Flesher and Dale L. Flesher). In A. Richardson (ed.), Disorder and Harmony: 20th Century Perspectives on Accounting History, Selected Papers from the 7th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Vancouver: CGA-Research Foundation, 1996, pp. 261−280.
"Preserve Baseball's Antitrust Exemption, or, Why the Senators are Out of Their League." In Daniel R. Marburger (ed.), Stee-Rike Four! What's Wrong with the Business of Baseball? Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1997, pp. 143−161.
"The Economics of the Nanny State." In William F. Shughart II (ed.), Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination, An Independent Institute Book, Foreword by Paul W. McCracken, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997, pp. 13−29.
"Durable Goods, Tying, and Antitrust". In Fred S. McChesney (ed.), Economic Inputs, Legal Outputs: The Role of Economists in Modern Antitrust, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 39−46.
"Breakfast at the Federal Trade Commission" (with Robert D. Tollison and Eileen C. Reed). In Fred S. McChesney (ed.), Economic Inputs, Legal Outputs: The Role of Economists in Modern Antitrust, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 85−92.
"Fostering the Demand for Adoptions: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Orphanages and Foster Care on Adoptions in the United States" (with William F. Chappell). In Richard B. McKenzie (ed.), Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 151−168.
"Antitrust" (with Robert A. Levy). In Cato Handbook for Congress: 106th Congress, Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1999, pp. 399−405.
"The Interest-Group Theory of Government in Developing Economy Perspective". In Mwangi S. Kimenyi and John Mukum Mbaku (eds.), Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries: Applications of the Theory of Public Choice, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, Vt., USA: Ashgate Publishing, 1999, pp. 169−198.
"New Deal Spending and the States: The Politics of Public Works" (with Jim F. Couch). In Jac C. Heckelman, John C. Moorhouse and Robert M. Waples (eds.), Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 105−122.
"Introduction: Public Choice at the Millennium" (with Laura Razzolini). In William F. Shughart II and Laura Razzolini (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 2001, pp. xxi−xlii.
"Clubs and Club Goods" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison). In William F. Shughart II and Laura Razzolini (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 2001, pp. 337−353.
"A Creative Theorist in His Workshop: James M. Buchanan as a Positive Economist" (with Robert D. Tollison). In H. Geoffrey Brennan, Hartmut Kliemt and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Method and Morals in Constitutional Economics: Essays in Honor of James Buchanan, Berlin: Springer, 2002, pp. 66−77.
"Introduction" (with Charles K. Rowley and Robert D. Tollison). In Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), The Economics of Budget Deficits, Vol. I, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 153, ed. by Mark Blaug, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 2002, pp. xiii−xlviii.
"Regulation and Antitrust". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. I, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 263−283, reprinted in Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy, Dordrecht: Springer, 2008, pp. 447−480.
"Budget Deficits". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 49−53.
"The Economic Theory of Clubs" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison). In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 175−180.
"Enron" (with Michael Reksulak). In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 219−224.
"Is Voting Rational?" In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 326−329.
"Legislative Politics". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 350−353.
"Logic of Collective Action". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 360−363.
"The New Deal". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 394−397.
"September 11, 2001". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 520−524.
"Structure-Induced Equilibrium". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 538−540.
"Triangulation". In Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 584−586.
"Quit Playing Favorites: Why Business Subsidies Hurt our Economy" (with Michael J. Hicks). In Russell S. Sobel with Joshua C. Hall and Matt E. Ryan (eds.), Unleashing Capitalism: Why Prosperity Stops at the West Virginia Border and How to Fix It, Morgantown: The Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, 2007, pp. 119–130.
"Industrial Concentration". In David R. Henderson (ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008, pp. 257−260.
"Public Choice". In David R. Henderson (ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008, pp. 427−430.
"Toll Bridge over Troubled Waters: New Deal Agriculture Programs in the South". In Jürgen G. Backhaus (ed.), Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture: Crossing Bridges, vol. 5 of European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, Berlin: Springer, 2008, pp. 213−232.
"Ethnicity and Terrorism" (with Atin Basuchoudhary). In René A. Larche (ed.), Global Terrorism Issues and Developments, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2008, pp. 13−16.
"Foreword" to Charles K. Rowley and Nathanael Smith, Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government, Fairfax, VA: The Locke Institute in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009, pp. xv–xviii.
"Microsoft". In Roger Chapman (ed.), Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints, Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2009 (forthcoming).
"Tobacco Settlements". In Roger Chapman (ed.), Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints, Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2009 (forthcoming).
"Antitrust Policy". In Paul J. Quirk and William Cunion (eds.), Governing America: Major Policies and Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Government, New York: Facts on File, 2009 (forthcoming).
"Cost-Inflation in College Athletics − And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It". In Richard K. Vedder and Joshua C. Hall (eds.), Cutting Costs and Improving Productivity in Higher Education: Essays on Causes and Possible Solutions (forthcoming).
"Terrorism in Rational Choice Perspective". In Christopher J. Coyne (ed.), The Handbook of the Political Economy of War, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).
"Preliminary Evidence on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System" (with Robert D. Tollison), American Economic Review 73 (June 1983), pp. 291−304; reprinted in Eugenia F. Toma and Mark Toma (eds.), Central Bankers, Bureaucratic Incentives and Monetary Policy, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1986, pp. 67−90.
"The Regressive Nature of Civil Penalties" (with Phyllis Altrogge), International Review of Law and Economics 4 (June 1984), pp. 55−66; reprinted in Robert J. Mackay, James C. Miller III and Bruce Yandle (eds.), Public Choice and Regulation: A View from Inside the Federal Trade Commission, Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1987, pp. 240−254.
"Warranties, Tie-ins, and Efficient Insurance Contracts: A Theory and Three Case Studies" (with Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Richard S. Higgins). In Richard O. Zerbe, Jr (ed.), Research in Law and Economics, vol. 6. Greenwich, Conn,: JAI Press, 1984, pp. 167−185.
"The Convergence of Satisficing to Marginalism: An Empirical Test" (with W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 5 (1984), pp. 375−385.
"The Random Character of Merger Activity" (with Robert D. Tollison), RAND Journal of Economics 15 (Winter 1984), pp. 500−509.
"The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test" (with Ryan C. Amacher, Richard S. Higgins, and Robert D. Tollison), Economic Inquiry 23 (January 1985), pp. 7−19; reprinted in Robert J. Mackay, James C. Miller III and Bruce Yandle (eds.), Public Choice and Regulation: A View from Inside the Federal Trade Commission, Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1987, pp. 145−153.
"The Cyclical Character of Regulatory Activity" (with Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 45 (1985), pp. 303−311.
"The Positive Economics of Antitrust Policy: A Survey Article" (with Robert D. Tollison), International Review of Law and Economics 5 (June 1985), pp. 39−57.
"Legislation and Political Business Cycles" (with Robert D. Tollison), Kyklos 38 (Fasc. 1, 1985), pp. 43−59.
"Adam Smith in the Customhouse" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Political Economy 93 (August 1985), pp. 740−759; reprinted in Mark Blaug (ed.), Adam Smith (1723 −1790), vol. 1. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991, pp. 126−145.
"Free Entry and Efficient Rent Seeking" (with Richard S. Higgins and Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 46 (1985), pp. 247−258; reprinted in Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison and Gordon Tullock (eds.), The Political Economy of Rent Seeking. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 127−139, in Robert D. Tollison and Roger D. Congleton (eds.), The Economic Analysis of Rent Seeking, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 49, ed. by Mark Blaug. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1995, pp. 153−164, in Alan Lockard and Gordon Tullock (eds.), Efficient Rent-Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 47−57, and in Roger D. Congleton, Arye L. Hillman and Kai A. Konrad (eds.), 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1: Theory of Rent Seeking, Berlin: Springer, 2008, pp. 121−132.
"Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change" (with Robert D. Tollison), Economic Inquiry 23 (October 1985), pp. 585−599; reprinted in Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison and Gordon Tullock (eds.), The Political Economy of Rent Seeking. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 391−407.
"What Do Judges Maximize?" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Robert D. Tollison), Economia Delle Scelte Pubbliche [Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice] (1985) (3), pp. 181−188; reprinted in Charles K. Rowley (ed.), Public Choice Theory, vol. III, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 24, ed. by Mark Blaug. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1993, pp. 139−146.
"Bureaucratic Structure and Congressional Control" (with Robert D. Tollison and Brian L. Goff), Southern Economic Journal 52 (April 1986), pp. 962−972; reprinted in W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Predicting Politics: Essays in Empirical Public Choice. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 199−210.
"On the Growth of Government and the Political Economy of Legislation" (with Robert D. Tollison), in Richard O. Zerbe, Jr (ed.), Research in Law and Economics, vol. 9. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1986, pp. 111−127.
"Pigskins and Publications" (with Robert D. Tollison and Brian L. Goff), Atlantic Economic Journal 14 (July 1986), pp. 46−50.
"The Political Economy of Immigration Restrictions" (with Robert D. Tollison and Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Yale Journal on Regulation 4 (Fall 1986), pp. 79−97.
"The Incentive to Cite" (with Brain L. Goff, Robert D. Tollison, and Stephen B. Pociask), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 143 (September 1987), pp. 467−476.
"A Public Choice Perspective of the Banking Act of 1933", Cato Journal 7 (Winter 1988), pp. 595−613; reprinted in Catherine England and Thomas Huertas (eds.), The Financial Services Revolution: Policy Directions for the Future. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 87−105.
"Disqualification by Decree: Amateur Rules as Barriers to Entry" (with Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 144 (June 1988), pp. 515−523.
"A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 59 (October 1988), pp. 3−23.
"Legislative Majorities as Nonsalvageable Assets" (with W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison), Southern Economic Journal 55 (October 1988), pp. 303−314; reprinted in W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Predicting Politics: Essays in Empirical Public Choice. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 115−129.
"An Interest-Group Theory of Population Growth" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Population Economics 1 (1988), pp. 131−139.
"Crime or Punishment? Enforcement of the NCAA Football Cartel" (with Arthur A. Fleisher III, Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 10 (1988), pp. 433−451; reprinted in Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Sportometrics. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990, pp. 153−171.
"Affirmative Action and Unemployment" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Robert D. Tollison), European Journal of Political Economy 4 (1988), pp. 479−490.
"On the Incentives of Judges to Enforce Legislative Wealth Transfers" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Law and Economics 32 (April 1989), pp. 215−228.
"The Effects of Monetary Instability on the Extent of Vertical Integration" (with Donald J. Boudreaux), Atlantic Economic Journal 17 (June 1989), pp. 1−10.
"Price Leadership with Incomplete Information" (with Richard S. Higgins and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 11 (1989), pp. 423−429.
"Political Entry Barriers and Tax Incidence: The Political Economy of Sales and Excise Taxes" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Public Finance/Finances Publiques 44(1) (1989), pp. 8−18.
"Input Market Definition under Department of Justice Merger Guidelines" (with Richard S. Higgins), Review of Industrial Organization 4 (Fall 1989), pp. 99−114.
"Tit-for-Tat, Tariffs, and Time: A Dynamic Model of Trade Policy" (with François Melese and Johnny Henderson), International Trade Journal 4 (Winter 1989), pp.167−186.
"The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull?" (with Roger D. Congleton), Economic Inquiry 28 (January 1990), pp. 109−132.
"Price-Cost Margins and Industry Structure in Developing Countries: The Case of Korea" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Joon Lee), Bulletin of Economic Research 42 (July 1990), pp. 197−210.
"Union Rents and Market Structure Revisited" (with William F. Chappell and Walter J. Mayer), Journal of Labor Research 12 (Winter 1991), pp. 35−46.
"Educational Achievement and the Cost of Bureaucracy" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 15 (1991), pp. 29−45.
"The Employment Consequences of the Sherman and Clayton Acts" (with Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 147 (March 1991), pp. 38−52; reprinted in Fred S. McChesney and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 165−177.
"Fiscal Federalism and the Laffer Curve" (with Robert D. Tollison), Economia Delle Scelte Pubbliche [Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice] (1991)(1), pp. 21−28.
"A Public Choice Analysis of Public Transit Operating Subsidies" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi). In Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., and Victor P. Goldberg (eds.), Research in Law and Economics, vol. 14. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1991, pp. 251−276.
"Is Breaking Up Hard to Do? Legal Institutions and the Rate of Divorce" (with Gary M. Anderson), Economia Delle Scelte Pubbliche [Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice] (1991)(2), pp. 133−145.
"Ethics Laws and the Outside Earnings of Politicians: The Case of Alabama's 'Educator-Legislators'" (with Jim F. Couch and Keith E. Atkinson), Public Choice 73 (March 1992), pp. 135−145.
"Market Structure, Sales to Government, and the Theory of Oligopoly" (with William F. Chappell), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 19 (1992), pp. 69−81.
"Fields of Dreams: On the Construction of Professional Baseball Talent in Colleges and the Minor Leagues" (with Brian L. Goff). In Gerald W. Scully (ed.), Advances in the Economics of Sport, vol. 1. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1992, pp. 91−114.
"Demand Fluctuations and Firm Heterogeneity" (with Bhaskar J. Das and William F. Chappell), Journal of Industrial Economics 41 (March 1993), pp. 51−60.
"Going for the Gold: Property Rights and Athletic Effort in Transitional Economies" (with Robert D. Tollison), Kyklos 46 (Fasc. 2, 1993), pp. 263−272.
"Firm Heterogeneity and Production Flexibility: Evidence from Price-Cost Margins of Large and Small Firms" (with William F. Chappell and Walter J. Mayer), Bulletin of Economic Research 45 (July 1993), pp. 229−244.
"Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance" (with Jim F. Couch and Al L. Williams), Public Choice 76 (August 1993), pp. 301−312.
"Advertising, Competition, and Market-Share Instability" (with Bhaskar J. Das and William F. Chappell), Applied Economics 25 (1993), pp. 1409−1412.
"Entry, Exit, and Industry Performance" (with William F. Chappell and Walter J. Mayer), Journal of Economics 19 (Fall 1993), pp. 47−52.
"Instant Winners: Competitive Governments, Legal Change, and the Diffusion of State Lotteries" (with John D. Jackson and David S. Saurman), Public Choice 80 (September 1994), pp. 245−263.
"Antitrust Policy in Chicago and Virginia", Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 27−33.
"Sibling Rivalry: The Emergence of Competition Among the Baby Bells", Managerial and Decision Economics 16 (July−August 1995), pp. 479−492; reprinted in Richard S. Higgins and Paul H. Rubin (eds.), Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1995, pp. 203−216.
"Monopoly and the Problem of the Economists", Managerial and Decision Economics 17 (March−April 1996), pp. 217−230; reprinted in Fred S. McChesney (ed.), Economic Inputs, Legal Outputs: The Role of Economists in Modern Antitrust. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 149−162.
"On the (Relative) Unimportance of a Balanced Budget" (with Laura Razzolini), Public Choice 90 (March 1997), pp. 215−233; reprinted in Charles K. Rowley (ed.), Constitutional Political Economy in a Public Choice Perspective. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 215−233.
"Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen" (with Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison), Economic Inquiry 35 (July 1997), pp. 555−561; reprinted in Andrew Zimbalist (ed.), The Economics of Sport, vol. II, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 135, ed. by Mark Blaug, Northampton, Mass. and Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001, pp. 576−582.
"The Effects of Acquisition Cost and Budget-Based Compensation on the Attitudes of Pharmacy Directors Toward the Adoption of a Cost-Effective New Drug" (with Mick Kolassa, Mickey C. Smith, Benjamin F. Banahan III and Dewey D. Garner), Pharmaco-economics 13 (February 1998), pp. 223−230.
"Legal Institutions and Abortion Rates in Mississippi" (with Charles A. Barbour), Cato Journal 18 (Spring/Summer 1998), pp. 119−129.
"Interest Groups and the Courts" (with Robert D. Tollison), George Mason Law Review 6 (Summer 1998), pp. 953−969.
"Collusion, Profits, and Rational Antitrust" (with Robert D. Tollison), Antitrust Bulletin 43 (Summer 1998), pp. 365−374.
"Is Microsoft a Monopolist?" (with Richard B. McKenzie), Independent Review 3 (Fall 1998), pp. 165−197.
"Reversal of Fortune: The Politics and Economics of the Superconducting Supercollider" (with Atin Basuchoudhary and Paul Pecorino), Public Choice 100 (September 1999), pp. 185−201.
"The Fleeting Reagan Antitrust Revolution", Antitrust Bulletin 45 (Summer 2000), pp. 271−289.
"E-Taxes: A Public Choice Perspective", Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce 1 (2000), pp. 151−160.
"On the Principle of 'One Man, One Vote' in the Ballot Box and the Jury Box" (with Gökhan R. Karahan), Kamu Tercihi ve Anayasal İktisat [Journal of Public Choice and Constitutional Economics] 1(1) (2001), pp. 20−51.
"The Political Economy of the IRS" (with Marilyn Young and Michael Reksulak), Economics and Politics 13 (July 2001), pp. 201−220.
"September 11, 2001", Public Choice 111 (March 2002), pp. 1−8 [also published in Public Choice 112 (September 2002), pp. 225−232]; reprinted in Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, vol. II, Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 520−524, and in Rosemary H. T. O'Kane (ed.), Terrorism, vol. II. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar, 2005, pp. 221−228.
"Centralized versus Decentralized Decision-Making in a County Government Setting" (with Gokhan R. Karahan and Laura Razzolini), Economics of Governance 3 (2002). pp. 101−115.
"Crime, Gun Control, and the BATF: The Political Economy of Law Enforcement" (with Jim F. Couch), Fordham Urban Law Journal 30 (January 2003), pp. 617−637.
"On the Third Law of Demand" (with Laura Razzolini and Robert D. Tollison), Economic Inquiry 41 (April 2003), pp. 292−298.
"Bargaining for Monopoly: The Joint Operating Arrangement between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News" (with Shuo Chen), Antitrust Bulletin 48 (Spring 2003), pp. 33−52.
"Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution" (with Robert D. Tollison and Zhipeng Yan), Kyklos 56(4) (2003), pp. 241−255; abstracted in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
"Under Two Flags: Symbolic Voting in the State of Mississippi" (with Gökhan R. Karahan), Public Choice 118 (January 2004), pp. 105−124.
"George W. Bush and the Return to Deficit Finance", Public Choice 118 (March 2004), pp. 223−234.
"Bending before the Storm: The U.S. Supreme Court in Economic Crisis, 1935−1937", Independent Review 9 (Summer 2004), pp. 55−83.
"Titan Agonistes: The Wealth Effects of the Standard Oil (N.J.) Case" (with Michael Reksulak, Robert D. Tollison and Atin Basuchoudhary), in John B. Kirkwood (ed.), Antitrust Law and Economics, vol. 21 of Research in Law and Economics, ed. by Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. Amsterdam: Elsevier (2004), pp. 63−84.
"On the Internal Contradictions of the Law of One Price" (with Fred S. McChesney and David D. Haddock), Economic Inquiry 42 (October 2004), pp. 706−716.
"Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective" (with Michael Reksulak and Robert D. Tollison), Southern Economic Journal 71 (October 2004), pp. 232−259.
"Public Choice in the New Century" (with Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 124 (July 2005), pp. 1−18. Reprinted in William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison (eds), Policy Challenges and Political Responses: Public Choice Perspectives on the Post-9/11 World. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, pp. 1−18; abstracted in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
"The Unfinished Business of Public Choice" (with Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 124 (July 2005), pp. 237−247. Reprinted in William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison (eds), Policy Challenges and Political Responses: Public Choice Perspectives on the Post-9/11 World. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, pp. 237−247; abstracted in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
"Corrupt Political Jurisdictions and Voter Participation" (with Gökhan R. Karahan and R. Morris Coats), Public Choice 126 (January 2006), pp. 87−106; abstracted in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
"Katrinanomics: The Politics and Economics of Disaster Relief", Public Choice 127 (April 2006), pp. 31−53.
"No Pretense to Honesty: County Government Corruption in Mississippi" (with Gökhan R. Karahan and Laura Razzolini), Economics of Governance 7 (August 2006), pp. 211−227.
"An Analytical History of Terrorism, 1945−2000", Public Choice 128 (July 2006), pp. 7−39.
"A Theory of Commodity Bundling in Final Product Markets: Professor Hirshleifer Meets Professor Becker" (with Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison), International Review of Law and Economics 26(2) (2006), pp. 162−179.
"Smoke and Mirrors: The Political Economy of the Tobacco Settlements" (with Taylor P. Stevenson), Public Finance Review 34 (November 2006), pp. 712−730.
"Flags of Our Fathers: Voting on Confederate Symbols in the State of Georgia" (with Michael Reksulak and Gökhan R. Karahan), Public Choice 131 (April 2007), pp. 83−99.
"The Wealth Effects of the USA Patriot Act: Evidence from the Banking and Thrift Industries" (with Burak Dolar), Journal of Money Laundering Control 10(3) (2007), pp. 300−317.
"Delivered Pricing in Theory and Policy Practice" (with Fred S. McChesney), Antitrust Bulletin 52(2) (Summer 2007), pp. 205−228.
"Taxonomy: Racism versus Fiscal Conservatism in Voting on Segregationist Provisions in Alabama's Constitution" (with Michael Reksulak), Constitutional Political Economy 19 (March 2008), pp. 61−80.
"Innovation and the Opportunity Cost of Monopoly" (with Michael Reksulak and Robert D. Tollison), Managerial and Decision Economics 29(8) (December 2008), pp. 619−627.
"And the Beat Goes On: Voting on the Form of County Governance in the Midst of Public Corruption" (with Gökhan R. Karahan and R. Morris Coats), Kyklos 62(1) (2009), pp. 65−84.
"The Political Economy of Constitutional Choice: A Study of the 2005 Kenyan Constitutional Referendum" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Constitutional Political Economy (forthcoming).
"Public Choice Theory and Antitrust Policy" (with Fred S. McChesney), Public Choice (forthcoming).
"The Consequences of the US DOJ's Antitrust Activities: A Macroeconomic Perspective" (with Andrew T. Young), Public Choice (forthcoming).
"On Ethnic Conflict and the Origins of Transnational Terrorism" (with Atin Basuchoudhary), Defence and Peace Economics (forthcoming).
"Of Rebates and Drawbacks: The Standard Oil (N.J.) Company and the Railroads" (with Michael Reksulak), Review of Industrial Organization (January 2011), forthcoming.
Short Papers, Notes
and Replies
"A Note on Centralized Regulatory Review" (with James C. Miller III and Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 43 (1984), pp. 83−88.
"The Disinterest in Deregulation" (with Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison), American Economic Review 74 (December 1984), pp. 1075−1079.
"The Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve: Reply" (with Robert D. Tollison), American Economic Review 74 (December 1984), pp. 1121−1123.
"The Welfare Basis of the 'Failing Company' Doctrine" (with Robert D. Tollison), Antitrust Bulletin 30 (Summer 1985), pp. 357−364.
"Suicide: Rational or Irrational Choice" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Atlantic Economic Journal 14 (March 1986), p. 121.
"The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply" (with Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison), American Economic Review 76 (June 1986), pp. 564−565.
"Don't Revise the Clayton Act, Scrap It!", Cato Journal 6 (Winter 1987), pp. 925−932.
"Rational Self-Taxation: Complementary Inputs and Excise Taxation" (with Robert D. Tollison and Richard S. Higgins), Canadian Journal of Economics 20 (August 1987), pp. 527−532.
"Durable Tax Reform", Cato Journal 7 (Spring/Summer 1987), pp. 273−281.
"The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply" (with Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison), American Economic Review 78 (March 1988), p. 284.
"Political Successions and the Growth of Government" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Public Choice 62 (August 1989), pp. 173−179.
"Ownership Structure in Professional Sports" (with Arthur A. Fleisher III and Robert D. Tollison). In Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. (ed.), Research in Law and Economics, vol. 12. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989, pp. 71−75.
"Economists and the Economy" (with David N. Laband and Robert D. Tollison), Review of Economics and Statistics 72 (November 1990), pp. 707−711.
"A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice 67 (December 1990), pp. 277−283.
"Legislative Majorities as Nonsalvageable Assets: Reply" (with W. Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison), Southern Economic Journal 57 (January 1991), pp. 857−859.
"Regulation and Economic Interests" (with Bhaskar J. Das), Journal of Applied Business Research 8 (Winter 1991−1992), pp. 135−137.
"Should Class Attendance be Mandatory?" (with William A. Powell), Journal of Economic Perspectives 8 (Summer 1994), pp. 208−210.
"Industrial Location Decisions: The Overlooked Political Factors" (with Jim F. Couch and Chinmay Singharay), Southwestern Economic Review 22 (Spring 1995), pp. 41−47.
"Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance: Reply" (with Jim F. Couch), Public Choice 82 (March 1995), pp. 375−380.
"Competition, Expenditures and Student Performance: Reply to Borland and Howsen" (with Jim F. Couch), Public Choice 87 (June 1996), pp. 401−403.
"Moral Hazard and the Effects of the DH Rule Revisited" (with Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison), Economic Inquiry 36 (October 1998), pp. 688−692; reprinted in Andrew Zimbalist (ed.), The Economics of Sport, vol. II, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 135, ed. by Mark Blaug, Northampton, Mass. and Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001, pp. 589−593.
"The Reformer's Dilemma", Public Finance Review 27 (September 1999), pp. 561−565; reprinted in Alan Lockard and Gordon Tullock (eds.), Efficient Rent-Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 357−360.
"Robert D. Tollison, 65 Years On", Public Choice (forthcoming).
Public Documents
"Impact of Overseas Homeporting on Reenlistment Rates" (with Samuel D. Kleinman), Center for Naval Analyses Working Paper No. 1959−73.20, 30 November 1973.
"The Impact of Surface Warfare Officer School on Junior Officer Performance", Center for Naval Analyses Memorandum 2085−73, 13 December 1973.
"The Effect of VRB on First Term Reenlistments, Length of Extensions, and Second Term Reenlistments" (with Samuel D. Kleinman), Center for Naval Analyses Memorandum 0194−75, 7 March 1974.
"The Budgetary Costs of the All-Volunteer Force" (with Christopher Jehn), Center for Naval Analyses Working Paper 0532−74, 12 April 1974.
"Predicting Attrition During Recruit Training: A Comment" (with Robert F. Lockman), Center for Naval Analyses Working Paper 0665−74, 6 May 1974.
"An Estimation of the Relationship Between VRB and Length of Reenlistment" (with Samuel D. Kleinman), Center for Naval Analyses Working Paper 0684−74, 9 May 1974.
"Selected Navy Reenlistment Statistics, FY 1963 − FY 1973" (with Samuel D. Kleinman), Center for Naval Analyses Memorandum 0743−74, 17 May 1974.
"A Critique of Navy Retention Statistics" (with Nancy L. Rudwick and Samuel D. Kleinman), Center for Naval Analyses Memorandum 1282−74, 2 August 1974.
The Effects of Reenlistment Bonuses (with Samuel D. Kleinman), Research Contribution No. 269, Center for Naval Analyses, September 1974.
"CNP Briefing on Enlisted Tracking Study" (with Robert F. Lockman), Center for Naval Analyses Memorandum 1901−74, 29 November 1974.
Models for Estimating Premature Losses and Recruiting District Performance (with Robert F. Lockman and Christopher Jehn), Professional Paper No. 142, Center for Naval Analyses, January 1976.
Recruiters, Quotas, and the Number of Enlistments (with Christopher Jehn), CNS Study 1073, Center for Naval Analyses, December 1976.
Stochastic Analysis of Air Force Manpower: A Research Prospectus (with Arthur S. De Vany, Morgan O. Reynolds and John N. Taylor), Occupation and Manpower Research Division, Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, AFHRL−TR−77−58, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, September 1977.
Supply Rate and Equilibrium Inventory of Air Force Enlisted Personnel: A Simultaneous Model of the Accession and Retention Markets Incorporating Force Level Constraints (with Arthur S. De Vany and Thomas R. Saving), Occupation and Manpower Research Division, Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, AFHRL−TR−78−10, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, May 1978.
The Costs and Benefits of the FTC's Line of Business Program (with Robert D. Tollison and Richard S. Higgins), Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, January 1983.
"The Managed Float: A Public Choice Perspective". In Banking Committee Provisions of the Trade Bill, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs on Title IV of H. R. 3, U.S. House of Representatives, 100th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: USGPO, March 1987, pp. 284−298.
Public Choice, Public Subsidies, and Public Transit (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Office of Private Sector Initiatives, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Report No. UMTA−MS−06−0005−91−1, February 1991.
"Comments of the Mississippi Manufacturers Association and Utility Management Corporation on the Retail Market Power Studies Filed by Entergy Mississippi, Inc. and Mississippi Power Company" (with Michael T. Maloney), Testimony Before the Public Service Commission of the State of Mississippi, Docket No. 96−UA−389, Jackson, MS, 21 September 1998.
"A Study of the Determinants of Case Growth in United States Federal District Courts" (Final Report) (with Gökhan R. Karahan). NCJ 204010. University, MS: University of Mississippi [producer]. Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice [distributor], 2003. http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204010.pdf.
"Comments on the Proposed Contact Lens Rule, Project No. 411002", submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on behalf of 1−800 CONTACTS, 29 March 2004.
"Determinants of Case Growth in Federal District Courts in the United States, 1904−2002: User Guide" (with Gökhan R. Karahan). U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice. ICPSR 3987. October 2004.
The Demand for Money by Firms, by C. R. Coates (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1976), Economic Forum 10 (Summer 1979), pp. 118−120.
The Rule of Experts: Occupational Licensing in America, by S. David Young (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1987), Public Choice 61 (May 1989), pp. 198−200.
Transportation Safety in an Age of Deregulation, ed. by Leon N. Moses and Ian Savage (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), Accident Analysis & Prevention 23 (August 1991), pp. 463−465.
The Right to Justice: The Political Economy of Legal Services in the United States, by Charles K. Rowley (Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1992), Public Choice 75 (March 1993), pp. 290−292.
Innovative Competition in Medicine: A Schumpeterian Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry and the NHS, ed. by George Teeling Smith (London: Office of Health Economics, 1992), Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics 5 (1993), pp. 121−123.
Responsive Schools, Renewed Communities, by Clifford W. Cobb (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1992), Southern Economic Journal 60 (April 1994), pp. 1088−1089.
The National Debt Conclusion: Establishing the Debt Repayment Plan, by Charles W. Steadman (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1993), Public Choice 80 (September 1994), pp. 415−417.
The Economics of the Business Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries, by Harold Demsetz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), Managerial and Decision Economics 17 (January−February 1996), pp. 115−117.
Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago, by Robin Lester (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995), Managerial and Decision Economics 17 (November−December 1996), pp. 596−599.
The Ownership of Enterprise, by Henry Hansmann (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996), Managerial and Decision Economics 18 (May 1997), pp. 271−272.
The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, by Terence Kealey (Houndmills, Hampshire, UK: Macmillan Press Ltd. and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), Managerial and Decision Economics 18 (August 1997), pp. 414−416.
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm, by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert, Robert D. Tollison, Gary M. Anderson, and Audrey B. Davidson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), Public Choice 94 (January 1998), pp. 211−216.
The Politics of Distribution, by Joseph Cornwall Palamountain, Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955), Public Choice 95 (April 1998), pp. 206−210.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron Chernow (New York: Random House, 1998), Managerial and Decision Economics 19 (May 1998), pp. 197−200.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, by John R. Lott, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), Southern Economic Journal 65 (January 1999), pp. 656−659, and Southern Economic Journal 65 (April 1999), pp. 978−981.
Morgan: American Financier, by Jean Strouse (New York: Random House, 1999), Managerial and Decision Economics 20 (September 1999), pp. 345−347.
Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports, by Andrew Zimbalist (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) (with Robert D. Tollison), Managerial and Decision Economics 20 (September 1999), pp. 349−351.
CancerScam: Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to Politics, by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998) and The Food and Drink Police: America's Nannies, Busybodies, and Petty Tyrants, by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999), Public Choice 102 (March 2000), pp. 382−386.
Monopoly Politics, by James C. Miller III (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1999), Public Choice 104 (July 2000), pp. 193−196.
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, by Robert William Fogel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), Public Choice 105 (December 2000), pp. 402−406.
The Informant: A True Story, by Kurt Eichenwald (New York: Broadway Books, 2000), Managerial and Decision Economics 23 (January−February 2002), pp. 45−47.
The Economics of Network Industries, by Oz Shy (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Managerial and Decision Economics 23 (March 2002), pp. 93−94.
Economic Policy in the 1990s, ed. by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002), Economic History Services, August 16, 2002, URL: http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0527shtml.
Public Health Profiteering, by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001), Public Choice 113 (October 2002), pp. 245−248.
Antitrust Law, 2nd ed., by Richard A. Posner (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001), Public Choice 115 (June 2003), pp. 485−490.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, by Robert A. Caro (New York: Knopf, 2002), Public Choice 116 (September 2003), pp. 453−457.
"The Economist as Policy Wonk": Dual Review of A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America, by Michael A. Bernstein (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002) and Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits, by W. Carl Bevin (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), Journal of Policy History 15 (2003), pp. 349−357.
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy, by Joel Mokyr (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002), Economic History Services, March 15, 2004, URL: http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0748.shtml.
Public Choice III, by Dennis C. Mueller (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Public Choice 118 (March 2004), pp. 469−473.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis (New York and London: Norton, 2003), Managerial and Decision Economics 25 (December 2004), pp. 550−552.
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War, by Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr. (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2004), Public Choice 123 (April 2005), pp. 243−248. Also published in Public Choice 125 (July 2005), pp. 229−234.
Tax-Funded Politics, by James T. Bennett (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 2004), Public Choice 124 (September 2005), pp. 481−484.
Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, & Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century, by Deborah A. Symonds (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2006), Managerial and Decision Economics 28 (March 2007), pp. 169−170.
The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory, by Henry H. Bauer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2007), Public Choice 134 (March 2008), pp. 501−504.
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, by Christopher J. Coyne (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), Public Choice 136 (September 2008), pp. 497−500.
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, by Thomas K. McCraw (Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), Managerial and Decision Economics 29(8) (December 2008), pp. 675−677.
Proceedings
"Transitional Gains Trap Revisited" (with Bhaskar J. Das). In Eugene A. Devine and A. F. Alkhafaji (eds.), 1991 Proceedings of the International Academy of Management & Marketing, Detroit, Michigan, April 11−14, 1991, pp. 512−515.
"A Property Rights Perspective on the Emergence of Publicly Owned Transit Systems in the United States". In Michael Beesley, David Hensher and Antti Talvitie (eds.), Privatization and Deregulation in Passenger Transportation: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Tampere, Finland, 1991. Espoo, Finland: Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Privatization and Deregulation in Passenger Transportation, 1991, pp. 183−190.
"Auction Rules and Property Rights in Competitive Tendering of Public Transit" (with Mark V. Van Boening). In Jean Love (ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Surface Passenger Transport. Toronto, Canada, September 26−29, 1993, pp. 263−274.
Instructional
Materials
Study Guide to Accompany Modern Managerial Economics: Economic Theory for Business Decisions (with William F. Chappell and Rex L. Cottle). Cincinnati, Oh.: South-Western Publishing Co., 1994, v + 294 pages.
Instructor's Manual to Accompany Modern Managerial Economics: Economic Theory for Business Decisions (with William F. Chappell and Rex L. Cottle). Cincinnati, Oh.: South-Western Publishing Co., 1994, v + 313 pages.
Instructor's Manual to Accompany The Organization of Industry, 2nd ed. Houston, Tex.: Dame Publications, Inc., 1997, ii + 110 pages.
Published Editorials
and Miscellaneous Writings
"Amend the Glass-Steagall Act to Allow Commercial Banks to Purchase Equities (Common Stock)". In Richard B. McKenzie (ed.), A Blueprint for Jobs and Industrial Growth, Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1984, pp. 24−25.
"It's True! Adam Smith was a Bureaucrat" (with Gary M. Anderson and Robert D. Tollison), Wall Street Journal, 26 August 1985, p. 16.
"Expectations and the Effects of Federal Deficits". In Richard B. McKenzie, Macroeconomics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, pp. 366−67. Reprinted in David R. Kamerschen, Richard B. McKenzie and Clark Nardinelli, Economics, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989, pp. 436−437.
"The Break-Up of AT&T". In Richard B. McKenzie, Microeconomics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, pp. 284−285. Reprinted in David R. Kamerschen, Richard B. McKenzie and Clark Nardinelli, Economics, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989, pp. 650−651.
"Would Cows Vote Carnivore?" (with Robert D. Tollison), Economic Affairs 7 (August/September 1987), pp. 45−46.
"Deregulation and Air Travel Safety" (with Richard B. McKenzie), Regulation 11 (1987), pp. 42−47; reprinted in Don Cole (ed.), Economics 89/90, 18th ed. Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1989, pp. 63−68.
"Deregulation's Impact on Air Safety: Separating Fact from Fiction" (with Richard B. McKenzie), Consumers' Research 71 (January 1988), pp. 10−13.
"The Effect of Airline Deregulation on Travel Safety". In David R. Kamerschen, Richard B. McKenzie and Clark Nardinelli, Economics, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989, pp. 69−71.
"Cable TV Needs Competition, Not Regulation, to Control Price of Services", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 13 May 1990, p. 3H.
"Protect College Athletes, Not Athletics", Wall Street Journal, 26 December 1990, p. 6; reprinted as "Why Not a Football Degree?", in Daniel McDonald, The Language of Argument, 7th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1992, pp. 233−235, in Daniel McDonald and Larry W. Burton, The Language of Argument, 8th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1996, pp. 176−178, in Cheryl Glenn, Making Sense: A Rhetorical Reader, 2nd ed. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005, pp. 669−672, and in Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper and Alison M. Warriner, Reading Critically, Writing Well: A Reader and Guide, 8th ed., Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008, pp. 458−462.
"Private Antitrust Enforcement: Compensation, Deterrence, or Extortion?", Regulation 13 (Fall 1990), pp. 53−61.
"Choice is the Way to Go in Education", Birmingham News (Birmingham, Ala.), 2 June 1991.
"College Athletes Deserve Pay", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 23 November 1991, p. 18.
"In Determining Legislative Size, Look at Cost of What Legislature Does", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 1 April 1992, p. 11A.
"Close Look Shows College Sports No Drain on Schools' Resources" (with Brian L. Goff), Washington Times (Washington, D.C.), 9 August 1992, p. C3.
"Lotteries Fail to Fill the Till", Providence Journal-Bulletin (Providence, R.I.), 7 October 1992, p. A17.
"Costly Health Care Reform Paid by Taxes Should 'Go Up in Smoke'", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 7 June 1993, p. 7A.
"Discrimination and Women's Sports", The Free Market 12 (March 1994), pp. 6−8.
"Small Market is Big Farce in Baseball Salary Cap Battle" (with Brian L. Goff), Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Mich.), 18 December 1994, p. 8E.
"Tax Collector for the Nanny State", The Journal of Commerce, 20 July 1995.
"FDA Proposal Merely 'Power Grab' to Regulate Tobacco Advertising", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 27 November 1995, p. 9A.
"The Impact of Welfare Reform" (letter to the editor), The Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 November 1996, p. B10.
"Mississippians Have a Large Stake in World Trading Status of Taiwan", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 23 December 1996, p. 9A.
"Don't Allow the Dollar Bill to be Turned into a Metal Coin of the Realm", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 4 March 1997, p. 9A.
"Should Phone Network Access Charges Be Revamped?", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 27 April 1997, p. 1G.
"Congress Picks Your Pocket for Your Own Good", Wall Street Journal, 30 July 1997, p. A14.
"In Extreme Excess: The Budget 'Deal' That Really Isn't − No Matter What the Politicians Say", Chicago Tribune, 3 October 1997.
"Cochran Bill Calls for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Federal Regulations", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 15 January 1998, p. 13A.
"Taxes and Liberty", LibertyTree: Review and Catalog, vol. 12, no. 1, 1998, pp. 3−4.
"Don't Expect the Tobacco Bill to Stay Snuffed Out Long", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 22 June 1998, p. 7A.
"Business Owners Need Say About Second-Hand Smoke", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson., Miss.), 7 September 1998, p. 13A.
"Circumventing Constitution", Meridian Star (Meridian, Miss.), 21 January 1999, p. 4A.
"Kyoto Treaty Rules Must Not be Put in Force 'On the Sly'", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 8 February 1999, p. 7A.
"Smokers No Drain on Taxpayers; Suits Just Part of 'Big Lie'", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 22 November 1999, p. 9A.
"Taxing the Internet: Why It’s a Bad Idea", Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune-Review, 2 January 2000.
"Don't Tax Internet Purchases", Christian Science Monitor, 5 January 2000, p. 8.
"Runoff Should Have Decided Governor's Race", Clarion-Ledger, 23 January 2000, p. 1H.
"Taxing Tobacco: 'Meathead' Public Policy is Deceptive", The Reporter (Vacaville, Calif.), 6 February 2000, pp. G1 & G6.
"Internet Taxes Unfairly Tilt Playing Field Toward Local Merchants", The Arlington Journal (Arlington, Va.), p. A4. Also published in The Fairfax Journal (Fairfax, Va.), 2 March 2000, p. A4.
"Politics of the Pump: What Goes In to What Comes Out of Your Wallet at the Gas Station?", Sandusky (Ohio) Register, 23 March 2000.
"Barbarians at Bill Gates", The Freeman 50 (April 2000), pp. 23−29.
"Why the Case for a Breakup Breaks Down" (with Richard B. McKenzie), Wall Street Journal, 25 April 2000, p. A26; reprinted in Paul Beckner and Erick R. Gustafson (eds.), Trial and Error: United States v. Microsoft, Washington, DC: Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, 2001, pp. 160−163, and in Paul Beckner and Erick R. Gustafson (eds.), Trial and Error: United States v. Microsoft, 2nd ed., Washington, DC: Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, 2002, pp. 175−178.
"Price Controls Are Not the Answer to Rising Drug Prices", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 22 May 2000, p. 7A.
"Internet Commerce Should be Taxed? It Just Ain't So!", The Freeman 50 (June 2000), pp. 6−7.
"Investment Vital to Avoid Electric Power Outages", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 10 July 2000, p. 7A.
"The ABCs of the State-Run Liquor Monopoly", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 30 October 2000, p. 9A.
"Politics and IRS Audit Rates" (with Marilyn Young and Michael Reksulak), Lewiston Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME), 22 April 2001, p. D4; also mentioned in National Center for Policy Analysis, Executive Alert 15 (July/August 2001), p. 2.
"'Business Ethics' is Not an Oxymoron", Delta Business Journal 4 (November 2001), p. 19.
"EPA Suits against Utilities Counterproductive", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson. Miss.), 27 April 2002, p. 13A.
"Is a Tax Credit for Individual Donations to National Political Campaigns a Good Idea? No: It Would Help Incumbents while Steering Still More Money into Federal Elections", Insight on the News 18 (19 August 2002), pp. 41 & 43. Posted online 29 July 2002.
"Sensible Tort Reform for Mississippi", Delta Business Journal 5 (September 2002), p. 19.
"Oil and 9-11: The Connection", History News Network, posted online 23 September 2002.
"Energy 'Welfare' Hidden in Daschle's Bill", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 13 December 2002. Reprinted as "An Energy Policy for the 21st Century", Madison County Journal, 30 January 2003, p. 4.
"'Privatization' Can Help Ease Budget Woes", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 25 February 2003, p. 7A.
"The Yard Sale of the Century Could Ease the Crunch", Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2003, Metro Section, p. 11.
"Undervaluation of China's Yuan Means Closed U.S. Factories", Commercial Appeal, 18 September 2003, p. B5.
"State's Tax Structure is Out of Date", Delta Business Journal 6 (October 2003), p. 14.
"Playing Politics with Nuclear Waste", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 25 January 2004, p. 5B. Also published as "Nuke Waste Storage Fund Needs a Repair", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 26 January 2004, p. 11A.
"MOST Likely to Provide Only False Promises", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 8 March 2004, p. 11A.
"Don't Cry for 'Momentum Mississippi'", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 11 March 2005, p. 13A.
"Competition Will Lead Us to Better Schools", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 18 April 2005, p. 7A.
"Economic Development is too Important to be Left to the Politicians", Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, Miss.), June 2005, p. 22.
"Supreme Court Ruling Opens the Door to Abuse" (with Michael Reksulak), Commercial Appeal, 28 June 2005, p. B5.
"Road Map for Undermining Property Rights" (with Michael Reksulak), Savannah Morning News, 2 July 2005, p. 7A.
"Kelo KOs Private-Property Rights", Meridian Star (Meridian, Miss.), 7 July 2005.
"Shughart on Jobs: It's all a Sham", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 7 August 2005, p. 5B.
"Momentum Mississippi: Rich Political Theater, Poor Economics", Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, Miss.), July/August 2005, p. 34.
"A 'Living Constitution' is an Oxymoron", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 11 September 2005, p. 5B.
"Four Reasons Why Government Failed in New Orleans", Heartland Perspectives, 16 September 2005.
"Hurricanes Kill; So Can Hurricane Relief Efforts", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 9 October 2005, p. 5B.
"Improve Workforce, Then Chase Auto Plant", Meridian Star (Meridian, Miss.), 4 November 2005.
"'Windfall' Profits Tax on Oil Would Slow Flow", Commercial Appeal, 4 November 2005, p. B7.
"Hurricane Katrina and the 'Broken Window' Fallacy", Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, Miss.), November 2005, p. 23.
"President Bush Delivers the (Davis) Bacon to the Gulf Coast", Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, Miss.), December 2005, p. 24.
"A 'New Deal' for the Gulf Coast? Be Careful What You Wish For", Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson. Miss.), January 2006, p. 24.
"Work Force that's Trained, Educated Vital", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), 27 January 2006, p. 7A.
"The Government Can't Give You a Raise (or Health Benefits Either)", Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, Miss.), February 2006, p. 17.
"Stealth Tax on Oil would Hit Investors, Nation", Commercial Appeal, 24 March 2006, p. B11.
"The GO Zone is a Non-Starter", The Mississippi Capitalist 1(1), April/May 2006, p. 25.
"Regulatory Price Gouging", Meridian Star (Meridian, Miss.), 19 May 2006, p. A8. Also published as "Blame Oil Prices on Demand", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 11 June 2006, p. 5B.
"Smoke and Mirrors in Jackson", The Mississippi Capitalist 1(2), June/July 2006, p. 25.
"Prop. 86 and the Tyranny of the Majority", released by the Independent Institute, 24 October 2006.
"Tyranny of the Minority", The Mississippi Capitalist 1(3), November/December 2006, p. 13.
"On Microsoft and the Continuation of Competition by Other Means", in Craig Berry (ed.), Frontiers of Freedom [Part Two]: Perspectives on Global Intellectual Property Rules in a Digital Age. London: Knowledge Politics, 2007, pp. 16−18.
“Exploiting Mississippi’s Taxpayers”, Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, MS), April 2007, p. 14.
"Corn Fuels Moonshine Energy Policy", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 13 May 2007, p. B5.
“Lawyers May Do More Damage than Katrina”, Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, MS), May/June 2007, p. 8.
“Two Lessons from a Non-Green Economist”, Metro Business Chronicle (Jackson, MS), July 2007, p. 10.
"Who owns Big Oil?", Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) 29 September 2007, p. C2. Also published as "New Taxes Would Cut Oil Production, Harm Small Stockholders", Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), 1 October 2007, p. 7A.
"Prescription for Big Government", Southern Maturity 1(2) (October 2007), p. 24.
"Mandates would Cost Jobs, Raise Energy Prices", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 26 November 2007, p. 4B.
"The Importance of Adequate Government Response: Hurricane Highlights a Failure of Governmental Management of Natural Disasters", Journal of International Peace Operations 3(4) (January-February 2008), pp. 9−10.
"Supply Diversity is the Key to American Energy Security", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2 March 2008, p. 5A.
“Daylight Savings Time Costs Nation $1.7 Billion”; also published, inter alia, as “Daylight Saving Time Costs Nation $1.7 Billion”, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), 7 March 2008 (also posted on the website of the Chicago Tribune); "Why Daylight Saving Time should Tick Us Off", Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), 7 March 2008; “Daylight Spending Time?”, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), 7 March 2008; "DST Costs us Billions (and Saves no Money)", The Tallahassee (FL) Democrat, 8 March 2008; “Is Changing Your Clocks Worth $1.7 Billion?”, Sun-Herald (Biloxi, MS), 8 March 2008; “Money in the Bank … Maybe Not”, News-Leader (Springfield, MO), 8 March 2008; “Nation Can’t Afford Billion Dollar Time Change”, The Shreveport (LA) Times, 8 March 2008; “Spending by the Minute to Save Daylight by the Hour”, The Buffalo (NY) News, 8 March 2008; "It's Sure Not Money that it Saves", Star-News (Wilmington, DE), 8 March 2008; "Daylight Savings: How to Lose $1.7 Billion", Clarion-Ledger, 9 March 2008; "Truly Daylight Savings?", The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA), 9 March 2008, p. F1; “Time Change Costs Show No Savings”, The Birmingham (AL) News, 9 March 2008; “Billion-Dollar Time Change”, Banner-Herald (Athens, GA), 9 March 2008; “Billion-Dollar Time Change”, The Roanoke (VA) Times, 9 March 2008; and "Daylight Saving Time's Dubious Economics", Providence (RI) Journal, 21 March 2008.
"The Fed's Risky Business", The Washington Times, 11 April 2008.
"Franklin Delano Bush Pushes a Bad Idea", Contra Costa (CA) Times, 12 April 2008; also published as "More Harm than Good in Financial Patch Job", Oakland (CA) Tribune, 13 April 2008; and as "Fed as Watchdog will Create more Stability", San Ramon Valley (CA) Times, Pleasanton Valley (CA) Times, and West County Times (Richmond, CA), 13 April 2008.
"Sell State Assets to Close Budget Gap", The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), 8 May 2008.
"Stimulus, Shmimulus: Those Rebate Checks Won't Help", Bucks County (PA) Courier Times, Burlington County (PA) Times and The Intelligencer, 19 May 2008; also published as "Un Estimulo Fracasado", Vision Hispana (Alameda, CA), 1 April 2008.
"Avoiding the Oil Crisis: Doomsday Can Be Averted", Bucks County (PA) Courier Times, Burlington County (PA) Times and The Intelligencer, 26 May 2008.
"No One Holds Us over a Barrel: U.S. Diversifies its Oil Sources", The News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL), 29 May 2008, p. 5A; also published as "No One Holds Us over a Barrel", Daily Comet (Thibodaux, LA), 30 May 2008; The Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA), 1 June 2008; North (San Diego, CA) County Times, 15 June 2008; and Sheboygan (WI) Press, 20 June 2008.
"Yard Sale for Cash-Strapped States", Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2008.
"Spending like a Drunken Sailor", Hattiesburg American, 19 July 2008; also published as "Spending Addicts", Washington Times, 20 July 2008, as "Spending like a Drunken Politician", Sun-Herald (Biloxi, MS), 18 July 2008; and Lowell (MA) Sun, 28 July 2008, as "Government's Fiscal Irresponsibility will Return to Haunt Us", Clarion-Ledger, 13 September 2008, p. 9A, and as "Debt: The Gift that Keeps Giving", Peoria (IL) Journal-Star, 26 October 2008.
"It's Time to Cut Fannie and Freddie Loose", North County Times (San Diego, CA), 27 July 2008; also published in The Times of Trenton (NJ), 30 July 2008, as "Cut Fannie and Freddie Loose", Bucks County (PA) Courier Times, 29 July 2008, as "Gov't should put Fannie, Freddie Out of Business", Austin (TX) Business Journal, 8 August 2008, and as "Time to Cut Losses Fannie and Freddie", Providence (RI) Journal, 8 August 2008.
"Problems, and Government Interventions, Keep Growing", Detroit Free Press, 6 August 2008.
"Fannie and Freddie Fleece the Taxpayers", Urbana (OH) Daily Citizen, 19 August 2008, p. A-4.
"U.S. Faces International Economic Pressures", Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 21 September 2008, p. 5G.
"The Debate on 'Energy Independence'", Oxford (MS) Eagle, 23 September 2008, p. 4A.
"Barbour's Tax Panel Missed a Golden Opportunity" [Part 1 of 5], Vicksburg Post, 14 October 2008.
"Tax Study Commission Missed the Math on Sales Tax" [Part 2 of 5], Vicksburg Post, 15 October 2008.
"Panel Just Blew Smoke on Tobacco Taxes" [Part 3 of 5], Vicksburg Post, 16 October 2008.
"Targeting 'E-tailers' May Not be Wise for State" [Part 4 of 5], Vicksburg Post, 17 October 2008.
"Correct Suggestions Made on Corporate Income Taxes" [Part 5 of 5], Vicksburg Post, 19 October 2008.
"Time to Fall Back to Daylight Savings Time", U.S. News & World Report Online, 2 November 2008.
"Obamanomics and Tax Relief for the Middle Class", Crookston (MN) Daily Times, 18 November 2008; also published in the Daily Record (Dunn, NC), 26 November 2008, The Examiner (Washington, DC), 8 December 2008, and as "Obamanomics and 'Middle Class' Tax Relief", Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, NY), 9 December 2008.
"Déjà Vu for California's Budget, Terminator-Style", American Chronicle, 21 November 2008.
"Russia's Bare-Knuckle Policy on Oil", Washington Times, 23 November 2008; also published as "Russia is a Key Link to Oil", Hattiesburg American, 13 December 2008.
“Paving Projects won’t Boost Economy”, Investor’s Business Daily, 6 January 2009; also published, inter alia, as “Will Obama’s Stimulus Pull Nation Out of Recession? CON: Jobs will be Created, but Money Could be better Spent Elsewhere”, The Blade (Toledo, OH), 3 January 2009, p. 7; as “Plan, Like FDR’s New Deal, Not Best Use of Funds”, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), 3 January 2009; as “A Jobs Stimulus has its Limits”, Keene (NH) Sentinel, 3 January 2009; as “Obama’s ‘New’ New Deal won’t Lift us out of the Recession”, Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 3 January 2009, and Augusta (GA) Chronicle, 5 January 2009, p. A07; as “Obama Stimulus won’t Pull U.S. Economy out of Recession”, Kansas City Sunday Star, 4 January 2009; as “Obama Stimulus will Lead to More Jobs, won’t End Recession”, Modesto (CA) Sunday Bee, 4 January 2009; as “Obama’s ‘New’ New Deal will Create Jobs, but won’t Lift America out of Recession”, Hawaii Reporter, San Gabriel Valley (CA) Tribune and Whittier (CA) Daily News, 5 January 2009; as “New ‘New Deal’ will Create Jobs but not a Cure”, Charleston (WV) Gazette, 6 January 2009; and as “Recession Reinforcing Job Creation”, The Obama Watch, American Spectator Online, 8 January 2009.
"We Need 'Reform', Not an Increased Excise Tax on Cigarettes", Clarion-Ledger, 10 January 2009, p. 11A.
"Folly of Incentives", Washington Times, 25 January 2009.
"Taking Wrong Course", The Oklahoman, 7 March 2009.
"Bad Business, as Usual", Los Angeles Business Journal, 9 March 2009.
"Fiscal Obamamania", The Monitor (McAllen, TX), 11 March 2009; also published as “Mortgage Aid Plan Rewards Irresponsibility,” Sun-Herald (Biloxi, MS), 12 March 2009; as “Obama’s Spending Spree Adds to Deficit”, The Vindicator (Youngstown, OH), 13 March 2009; as “Fiscal Obamamania”, Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review, 15 March 2009; as “Fixing America’s Broken Nest Egg”, Rock Hill (SC) Herald, 15 March 2009' as “More Spending, More Bailouts won’t Work”, The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), 18 March 2009, p. A7; and as “Fiscal Obamamania”, York (PA) Daily Record, 19 March 2009.
"A Budget Solution: Sell Off San Quentin", San Francisco Chronicle, 31 March 2009, p. A-15.
“Put $80 Billion into a Paper Bag, and”, The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), 24 April 2009.
“Presenting: United States Motors”, Financial Post, 28 April 2008; also published in the National Post, 29 April 2009.
"Mixed Enterprises will Maximize Losses", Freedom Politics, 11 May 2009.
"Nanny State runs Amok with City's Cigarette Tax", San Francisco Examiner, 2 June 2009.
"Tax Sugary Soft Drinks? Con: Just another Unneeded Infringement", The Debate Room, Business Week, 4 June 2009.
"Wage Ordinance? Con: UM Economist Cites the 'Folly of a Living Wage'", Clarion-Ledger, 14 June 2009, p. 1C.
"Taxing Soda Pop is No Way to Fund Health Reform", The Mercury News (San José, CA), 24 June 2009; also published as “Can Soda Be Sinful? Yes, If the Government Says So (Again)”, The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), 25 June 2009; as “Drinking a Sweet Soda May Soon be a Sin”, Quad-Cities Online, 25 June 2009; as “Being Fat May Soon Be a Sin”, Daily Herald (Provo, UT), 25 June 2009; as “History Teaches Us to Beware of the Sin Tax”, Post Star (Glens Falls, NY), 26 June 2009; as “Being Fat May Soon Be a Sin”, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), 27 June 2009; as “Taxes on Soft Drinks Unfair, Not Healthy”, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), 27 June 2009; as “Excise Taxes: You May be Next”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 June 2009; as “Tax Soda Today, Bacon Tomorrow” Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 28 June 2009; as “Paying for Health Care Reform: Today, Soft Drink Tax”, Bradenton (FL) Herald, 28 June 2009; as “Tax on Soft Drinks Aimed at Ending Our Fatty Ways”, The Vindicator (Youngstown, OH), 28 June 2009; as “Taxing Sugary Soft Drinks to Help Pay for Health Care Simply Wrong”, Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic, 28 June 2009; as “Fat Tax: Being Overweight is Becoming a ‘Sin’”, York (PA) Daily Record/York Sunday News, 29 June 2009; as “Selective Excise Taxes are Blatantly Unfair”, The Times-News (Kingsport, TN), 29 June 2009; as Soft Drinks Today; Bacon Tomorrow”, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, WY), 29 June 2009; as “Being Fat May Soon be a Sin”, Portland (ME) Press-Herald, 29 June 2009; as “Being Fat Might Soon Be a Sin”, Post Bulletin (Rochester, MN), 30 June 2009; as “Where Will It End if Soda is Taxed?”, Centre Daily Times (State College, PA), 1 July 2009; as “Being Fat May Soon Be a Sin”, The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), 5 July 2009; as “Taxing Soft Drinks is First Step on Slippery Slope of Excise Tax”, Great Falls (MT) Tribune, 2 July 2009; as “Time for a Sugary Soft Drink Rebellion?”, News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), 5 July 2009; as “Soda-Pop Tax: Being Fat becomes a Sin”, Santa Fe New Mexican, 6 July 2009; as “Pop Tax Wrong Move”, The (Butte) Montana Standard, 7 July 2009; and as "Soft-Drinks Tax is Brazen Discrimination". The Providence (RI) Journal, 25 September 2009.
"Taxing Internet Sales is a Recipe for Big Government", Daily Sun News (Sunnyside, WA), 17 July 2009; also published as “Enough is Enough: Taxing Internet Sales is a Recipe for Big Government”, Manistee (MI) News Advocate, 17 July 2009; and as “Taxing Internet Sales is a Recipe for Big Government”, The Source, 9 August 2009.
"State's Policy is to Leave Money Sitting Idle during Deficit Times", San Francisco Examiner, 6 August 2009, p. 23.
"Eating Junk Food could Fatten Your Tax Bill", Washington Examiner, 17 September 2009; also published as "The Government Sets up Shop in Your Cupboard", San Francisco Examiner, 17 September 2009; and as “Eating Junk Food could Fatten Your Tax Bill”, Visión Hispana, 26 September–9 October 2009, p. 5.
“President Obama doesn’t Get It”, Sacramento Bee, 23 September 2009; also published under the same title in the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader, 23 September 2009; as “Postal Service is a Warning”, Lawrence (KS) Journal-World & News, 24 September 2009; as “Postal Service a Poor Example for Promoting Public Option”, The Press of Atlantic City (NJ), 25 September 2009; as “President Obama doesn’t Get It”, Bradenton (FL) Herald, 25 September 2009; as “Profit Motive makes the World go ’Round”, Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), 25 September 2009; as “Post Office is an Example of Why ‘Public Option’ doesn’t Work”, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), 26 September 2009; as “Obama and the Mailman: President Just doesn’t Get It”, The Anniston (AL) Star, 26 September 2009; as “Postal Service a Model for Health Reform?”, Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), 26 September 2009; and as "Obama goes Postal", Visión Hispana, 10–20 October 2009, p. 5.
“Unhealthy Time Change”, syndicated nationally by the McClatchy-Tribune News Service and posted on the websites of, inter alia, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the News Observer (Charlotte, NC) and the Orlando (FL) Sentinel, 28 October 2009. Published as “Unhealthy Time Change”, Sacramento Bee, 28 October 2009; as “Time Change could Prove Hazardous to Your Health”, Houston Chronicle, 29 October 2009; as “Studies Show There are Health Risks to this Unnecessary Change”, Colorado Daily (Boulder, CO), 29 October 2009; as “A Costly Switch in Time”, The Oil City (PA) Derrick, 29 October 2009; as “The Twice-a-Year Unhealthy Time Change”, The Anniston (AL) Star, 29 October 2009; as “Time Change Proves Unhealthy”, Bradenton (FL) Herald, 30 October 2009; as “Unhealthy Time Change”, Daily News (Red Bluff, CA), 30 October 2009; as “Turning Back Clock Damages Your Ticker”, Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN), 30 October 2009; as “Turning Back Clock Unhealthy Time Change”, Moline (IL) Dispatch, 30 October 2009; as “‘Falling Back’ may be Unhealthy”, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), 31 October 2009; as “Daylight Killing Time”, Winnipeg (Canada) Free Press, 31 October 2009; as “Daylight Saving Time Kills”, Green Bay (WI) Press Gazette, 31 October 2009; a' An Unhealthy Time Change", StarNews (Indianapolis, IN), 31 October 2009, p. 13A; as “Daylight-Saving Time may Cause Heart Attacks, Accidents”, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 1 November 2009: as “Unhealthy Time Change”, Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), 1 November 2009; as “Unhealthy Time Change”, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), 1 November 2009; as “Time Shifts Not Merely Inconvenient”, Times News (Kingsport, TN), 2 November 2009; as “Time Changes have No Benefits, and They’re Unhealthy”, The Press of Atlantic City (NJ), 2 November 2009; and as “There’s a Health Price to Pay for Time-Shifting”, Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN), 2 November 2009.
"A Public Choice Analysis of Public Transit Operating Subsidies". Principal investigators: William F. Shughart II and Mwangi S. Kimenyi. Sponsoring agency: U.S. Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transit Administration, Office of Private Sector Initiatives. Grant period: 1 October 1988 to 30 September 1989. Amount: $59,188.
"A Study of the Determinants of Case Growth in U.S. Federal District Courts". Principal investigator: William F. Shughart II. Co-investigator: Gökhan R. Karahan. Sponsoring agency: National Institute of Justice. Grant period: 1 November 2000 to 31 October 2002. Amount: $250,000.00.
Dissertation Director
Mwangi S. Kimenyi, "Antitrust Policy and the Use of Non-Standard Contracts and Practices: The Case of Best-Price Policies", George Mason University, 1986.
Bhaskar Jyoti Das, "Demand Fluctuations and Firm Heterogeneity", University of Mississippi, 1990.
Jeung-Ki Kim, "The Competitive Implications of Market Share Instability", University of Mississippi, 1991.
Yung-Ho Chiu, "The Structure of the Multinational Firm: The Role of Ownership Structure and Technology Transfer", University of Mississippi, 1994.
Jim F. Couch, "New Deal, Old Pork: The Politics and Economics of Federal Emergency Relief Spending During the Great Depression", University of Mississippi, 1995.
Atin Basuchoudhary, "Essays on Collusion in the Presence of Uncertainty", University of Mississippi, 1998.
Gökhan R. Karahan, "The Political Economy of Case Bringing Activity and Jury Selection Procedures in U.S. Federal District Courts", University of Mississippi, 2001.
Robert E. Trimm, "Interest-Group Politics and the Seventeenth Amendment", University of Mississippi, 2002.
Michael Reksulak, "Cost-Sharing Rules: An Experimental Comparison of Three Mechanisms", University of Mississippi, 2002.
Michelle Belk Matthews, "Political Economy of Federal Spending 1972−2000", University of Mississippi, 2003.
Taylor P. Stevenson, "The Political Economy of the Tobacco Settlements", University of Mississippi, 2004.
Lina Zhou, "Essays on Managerial Economics", University of Mississippi, 2005.
Shuo Chen, "Essays in Industrial Organization, Intellectual Property and Econometrics", University of Mississippi, 2005.
Burak Dolar, "The Anti-Money Laundering Provisions of the USA Patriot Act: A Heterogeneous Firm Model of the Banking Industry", University of Mississippi, 2007.
John Patrick Peavy, "A Comparison of Two Alternative Models of Economic Impact: A Case Study of the Mississippi Nissan Plant", University of Mississippi, 2007.
Dissertation Reader
Imtiaz Ahmed, "The Interaction of Due Date Assignment, Job Order Release, and Sequencing Techniques in Job Shop Scheduling", Ph.D. in POM, University of Mississippi, 1990.
Douglas K. Barney, "Modeling Farm Debt Failure: The Farmers Home Administration", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1993.
Steve C. Wells, "An Empirical Study of the Effect of Value-Added Tax Form on Revenue Volatility", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1994.
Eugene M. Kolassa, "Hospital Pharmacy Directors and Competing Optima: An Evaluation of the Importance of Cost-Effectiveness versus Acquisition Price", Ph.D. in Pharmacy Administration, University of Mississippi, 1996.
Alvie Lee Gurley III, "Tax Avoidance by Individuals: Paid-Preparer versus Self-Prepared Returns", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1996.
J. Roberto A. De Magalhães, "An Analysis of the Incremental Information Content of Brazil's Integral Monetary Correction System", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1998.
Brenda C. Yelvington, "An Empirical Investigation of Taxpayers' and Legislators' Attitudes Toward a Fair Tax System", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1998.
James G. Shelton, Jr., "Investor Reaction to Corporate Social Responsibility Types", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1998.
Clarece Y. Nash, "Capital Gains Tax Policy: The Effect on Investment Company Capital Gain Realizations", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1999.
Thomas G. Noland, "An Internal Control Analysis of Newly Chartered Financial Institutions", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 2000.
Marilyn Young, "The Impact of the Hope Scholarship Credit on Tuition and Enrollments of Postsecondary Educational Institutions", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 2000.
Stephanie Dunham Moussalli, "Accounting for Government on the Frontier from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Centuries: The Fiscal and Accounting Effects of Statehood in Arizona and New Mexico", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 2005.
Toby G. Bates, "The Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s' America", Ph.D. in History, University of Mississippi, 2006.
Timothy Russell, "Compliance with International Commitments and Domestic Political Institutions", Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Mississippi, 2006.
Karen C. Miller, "The Impact of Bonus Depreciation on General Aviation Aircraft Manufactured and Sold in the United States", Ph.D. in Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 2006.
Andrew Garner, "Information, Uncertainty, and Party Identification", Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Mississippi, 2007.
Jianfeng Jiang, "Structural Determinants of Retail Competition: On-Premises and Off-Premises Food Sales", Ph.D. in Marketing, University of Mississippi, 2007.
Andriy Shkilko, "Predictive Power, Profitability, and Microstructure of Short Selling Strategies", Ph.D. in Finance, University of Mississippi, 2007.
Bhanu Balasubramanian, "Two Essays on Market Discipline of Banks", Ph.D. in Finance, University of Mississippi, 2008.
Guo Kai, “Two Essays on Market Efficiency”, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Mississippi, 2009.
Allyson Kennedy, "Politics and the Pulpit: Examining the Impact of Religiosity on Political Behavior and Attitudes", Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Mississippi, in progress.
Working Papers
"Market Definition in Antitrust Analysis: Comment" (with Robert A. Rogowsky), Working Paper No. 77, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, revised October 1982.
"Warranties, Tie-Ins, and Efficient Insurance Contracts: A Theory and Three Case Studies" (with Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Richard S. Higgins), Working Paper No. 90, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, June 1983.
Affirmative Action and Minority Unemployment" (with Robert D. Tollison and Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Working Paper No. 2, Center for Policy Studies, Clemson University, April 1985.
"Durable Goods, Tying, and Antitrust", Working Paper 85−44, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University.
"Rational Expectations and Fluctuations in Real Output" (with Brian L. Goff), Working Paper 85−45, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University.
"A Contingent Liability Theory of Deficits" (with Robert D. Tollison), Working Paper 85−46, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University.
"Homo Basketballus" (with Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison), Working Paper 85−53, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University.
"The Political Economy of Merger Between Gas and Electric Utilities" (with Richard S. Higgins and Robert D. Tollison), Working Paper 85−53, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University.
"Antitrust Policy in the Reagan Administration: Pyrrhic Victories?", Working Paper No. 13, Center for Policy Studies, Clemson University, April 1986.
"Has Deregulation of Air Travel Affected Air Safety?" (with Richard B. McKenzie), Working Paper 101, Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, June 1986.
"Deregulation's Impact on Air Safety: Separating Fact from Fiction" (with Richard B. McKenzie), Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, August 1987.
"Price Leadership with Incomplete Information" (with Richard S. Higgins and Robert D. Tollison), Working Paper No. 155, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, September 1987.
Unpublished
Manuscripts
"Antitrust Policy and Industry Performance" (with Gary M. Miller III and Robert D. Tollison).
"The Iron Law of Elections" (with W. Mark Crain).
"Rational Expectations, Random Walks, and the Business Cycle" (with Brian L. Goff).
"Corporate Mergers and GNP" (with Brian L. Goff and Robert D. Tollison).
"Exclusive Territories and Advertising Restrictions in the Malt Beverage Industry" (with Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Jodn D. Jackson, David S. Saurman, and Robert D. Tollison).
"The Effect of Value Added Tax Form on Revenue Volatility. Part I: Hypothetical U.S. VAT Revenue" (with Steve C. Wells and Carl G. Brooking).
"The Farm Credit Pork Barrel: Political Influences on FmHA Lending" (with Douglas K. Barney).
"Tuition Tax Credits and Tuition Inflation: Who Benefits from the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credits?" (with Marilyn Young).
"Barrier to Entry: The Political Economy of H1-B Visas" (with Michael Reksulak and Gökhan R. Karahan).
"Provider Competition, Marketization, and the Quality of Public Service Provision" (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi), Framework Paper, Collaborative Project on Service Delivery in Africa, African Economic Research Consortium.
"Political Arithmetic: New Evidence on the 'Small-State Bias' in Federal Spending" (with Michelle B. Matthews and Taylor P. Stevenson).
"Corruption and Voter Participation: Evidence from the US States" (with Monica Escaleras and Peter T. Calcagno).
"Disaster Relief as a Bad Public Good".
"Enforcement of the USA Patriot Act in the Banking Industry: Have Regulators Followed a Risk-Based Approach?" (with Burak Dolar).
“The Patriot Act’s Differential Impact on Large and Small Banks: Evidence from California’s High-Risk Money Laundering and Related Financial Crime Areas” (with Burak Dolar).
"What Should Government Do? Problems of Social Cost, Externalities and All That" (with Michael Reksulak).
Courses Taught at The
University of Mississippi
UNDERGRADUATE
Introduction to International StudiesFirst-Year Seminar in Liberal Arts
Principles of Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
Managerial EconomicsEngineering Economy
GRADUATE
Advanced Microeconomics
Industrial Organization
Public Finance
Public Choice
Managerial Economics
Committee Service at
The University of Mississippi
STANDING UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
University Research Board
Graduate Council
Promotion and Tenure Review Committee
Committee on Academic Freedom and Faculty Responsibility
Committee on Refunds
Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics
United Way Campaign CommitteeExternal Academic Affairs
STANDING DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES
Tenure and Promotion CommitteeGraduate Admissions and Policy Committee
Graduate Examination CommitteeFaculty Peer Instructor Evaluators
Administrative
Appointments at The University of Mississippi
Chair of the SACS Self-Study Committee on Administrative Processes, 1997−1998.
Economics Area Coordinator, School of Business Administration, 2001−2002.
Selected Consulting
Engagements
LEAP Systems, Inc. v. Todd Langford, Numbers Analytic, Inc., and Partners for Prosperity, Inc., Docket No. SOM-C-12107-08 (Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Somerset County).
Billy Brady et al. v. Chalie Mercer et al., Cause No. 10-0033 (Circuit Court of the First Judicial District, Jasper County, Miss.).
Donald J. Beach et al. v. Atlas Van Lines, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:07-cv-00764-CWH (D. S.C.).
Dr. Olaf Vancura adv. Mikohn Gaming Corp. et al., before the American Arbitration Association.
UST Public Affairs, Inc.
Tunica Web Advertising, Inc. and Cherry L. Graziosi v. Tunica Casino Operators Association, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 2:03CV234−P−D (N. D. Miss.).
Derek Webb, Hannah O'Donnell, and Prime Table Games LLC v. Mikohn Gaming Corp. and Progressive Games Inc., Case No. 3:02−CV−1838 WS (S.D. Miss.).
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Wade Tile & Block, Inc. d/b/a Wade Do-It Center v. Boral Bricks, Inc.; Lowe's Home Centers, Inc.; Nunzio Caranna and John Doe, Cause No.: 1:01cv375GR (S.D. Miss.).
Edward L. Franz et al. v. Richard L. Weaver, d/b/a Cardinal Delivery, Airborne Freight Corp. et al., Cause No. 2:97CV208−D−A (N. D. Miss.).
City of Tallulah v. Peoples Water Service Co. of Tallulah, Inc., Civil No. 97−437.
Ernest "Pug" Vickers III v. Hill Equipment Co. et al., Civil No. 1:96 CV 379−D−D (N. D. Miss.).
In re State of Texas v. The American Tobacco Co. et al., Civil No. 5−96CV91.
Mike Moore, Attorney General ex rel., State of Mississippi v. The American Tobacco Co. et al., Cause No. 94−1419 (Chancery Court, Jackson County, Miss.).
Miskelly Furniture Warehouse, Inc. v. La-Z-Boy Chair Co. et al., Civil Action No. 16,538.
Stephen W. Gray, C. P. A. v. Mississippi State Board of Public Accountancy, Civil No. J91−0264(L).
McCarter v. Abbott Laboratories, Civil No. 91−050.
H&W Industries, Inc. v. Formosa Plastics Corp., USA, et al., Civil No. EC−87−382−B−D.
The State of Mississippi ex rel. v. Borden, Inc. et al.
National Basketball Association v. San Diego Clippers Basketball Club.
