Peter J. Boettke
Don Lavoie (my PhD thesis advisor) and me
Special Issue of The Journal of Private Enterprise containing articles by my former students on graduate education in economics
Former Students
2012
PhD thesis: "Rumrunners, Hooligans, and Politicians: Essays on the Political Economy of Interventionism"
Current position: Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Ohio State University
2011
PhD thesis: "Three Essays in Political Economy with Applications to the Hanseatic League"
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Leipzig, Institut fur Wirtschaftspolitik
Initial position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Economics-Jena
PhD thesis: "Heterogeneity and Exchange: La Convivencia"
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy, Troy University
PhD thesis: "The Calculus of Conflict"
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Johnson and Wales University
Initial position: Instructor of Economics, Johnson and Wales University
Geoffrey Lea
PhD thesis: "Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: Three Essays in Business Cycles and the Housing Crisis of 2008"
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Illinois-Springfield
Initial position: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois-Springfield
2010
Leonid Krasnozhon
PhD thesis: "Institutional Analysis of Ukraine's Post-Socialist Economic Development"
Current position: Adjunct Faculty of Political Science, Univeristy of North Texas
Initial position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas-Arlington
PhD thesis: "The Economics of Prison and Street Gangs"
Current position: Searle Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
PhD thesis: "It's a Knowledge Problem World: Three Essays on the Knowledge Problem in Economics"
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Ball State University
Initial Position: Instructor of Economics, Ball State University
2009
Josh Hill
PhD thesis: "The Agency Problem of Empire: British Bureaucracy and Institutional Path Dependence"
Current position: Assistant Business Professor, The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani
Jennifer Dirmeyer
PhD thesis: "The Political Economy of Local Governance and Service Provision"
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Hampden-Sydney College
PhD thesis: "The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economics"
Current position: Lecturer in Political Economy, King's College London
Initial position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Development Research Institute, New York University
Other positions: Program Director, Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies
PhD thesis: "The Political Economy of Urban Reconstruction, Development and Planning"
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
PhD thesis: "The Political Economy of Repugnance"
Current position: Lecturer in Economics, Utah State University
2008
PhD thesis: "The Imprisoner's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment"
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Loyola University New Orleans
2007
PhD thesis: "Subjectivist Social Change: The Influence of Culture and Ideas on Economic Policy"
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics and Course Director, MEB London, European School of Management
Initial position: Affiliate Lecturer and Researcher, European School of Management
Other positions: Assistant Professor of Economics and Course Director, MEB London, European School of Management
2006
PhD thesis: "Three Essays on the Economics of Education"
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, Western Carolina University
Initial position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Carolina University
2005
PhD thesis: "After War: Essays on the Mechanisms for Successful Postwar Reconstruction and Social Change"
Current position: F.A. Harper Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Associate Director, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Initial position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Hampden-Sydney College
Other positions: Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
PhD thesis: "Cooperation and Conflict: Self-enforcing Exchange among Socially Heterogenous Agents"
Current position: BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, George Mason University; Senior Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Initial position: Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
2004
Christine Polek
PhD thesis: "Securities Laws in Transition Economies"
Current position: Economics Instructor, University of Massachusettes at Dartmouth
PhD thesis: "Essays on Property Rights Economics: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Property Rights and Its Application"
Current position: Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise and Associate Professor of Economics, Troy University; Executive Director, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University
Initial position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Mercer University
Other positions: Assistant Professor of Economics, Beloit College
2003
PhD thesis: "Enterprising Slaves and Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas"
Current position: Senior Research Fellow & Director of Graduate Student Programs, Mercatus Center at George Mason University; Research Associate Professor, Economics Department, George Mason University; Don C. Lavoie Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
PhD thesis: "Essays on Economic Development: Considering State Planning and Market Based Growth"
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, Suffolk University
Initial position: Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
2002
PhD thesis: "Essays on Self-policing Networks in Financial Markets"
Current position: Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Chair, Fayetteville State University
Initial position: Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
Other positions: Associate Professor of Economics, San Jose State University; Shelby Cullom Davis Visiting Associate Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, Trinity College
2001
Sahar Akhtar
PhD thesis: "Bundled Innovations: An Examination of the Influence of Selling Costs on Innovation"
Current position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia
Initial position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
Other positions: PhD student in Philosophy, Duke University
1999
Gail M. Heffernan
PhD thesis: "Agency Theory, Innovation, and the Rules of the Game"
Current position: Economics Instructor, Florida Institute of Technology
Service on International Dissertation Committees
2011: University of Guelph
2011, 2008: University of Economics in Prague
2007: University of Nottingham Business School
2006: Universidad Francsisco Marroquin
2003: Universite de Droit, D'Economie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille III
2001: Universite de Paris-I-Pantheon-Sorbonne
2001: Stockholm School of Economics
1998: University de Paris-IX-Dauphine
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