[Previous] [Contents] [Next]

About the Authors

James D. Gwartney is Professor of Economics and Policy Sciences at Florida State University. He has a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Washington. Along with Richard Stroup and Russell Sobel, James Gwartney is author of Economics: Private and Public Choice (Harcourt Brace). This text, now in its ninth edition, has been used by more than one million students in the last two decades. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society, during 1993/1994, Professor Gwartney taught at the Central European University in Prague, Czech Republic. He has recently concluded a two-year tenure as Chief Economist at the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He has published in the leading journals of professional economics, including Public Choice, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cato Journal and Southern Economic Journal.

Robert A. Lawson is Associate Professor and currently serves as the George H. Moor Chair of Business and Economics at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. A native of Cincinnati, he earned his B.S. in economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1988 and his M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1992) in economics from Florida State University. He is a Senior Research Advisor for the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Adjunct Scholar for the Mackinac Institute, and Faculty Affiliate for the DeVoe Moore Policy Sciences Center at Florida State University. He has published articles in several journals, including Public Choice, Journal of Labor Research, Asian Economic Review, Cato Journal, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice.

About the Contributors

Charles Skipton is a doctoral candidate in economics at Florida State University. His dissertation topic is international trade. During 1999 and 2000, he served as Staff Economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress.

Walter Park is Associate Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto, his M.Phil. at Oxford University, and his Ph.D. at Yale. He has published numerous articles on research and development, patents, and intellectual property rights in journals such as Research Policy, Economic Letters, Economic Inquiry, and Journal of Economics and Finance.

[Previous] [Contents] [Next]

info@fraserinstitute.ca You can contact us at the above email address for any comments or information requests. Please report any dead links or technical problems.

If you know someone who would be interested in this web page, please enter their email address below, and we will forward this URL to them: Email Address: