TEACHING AREAS
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Graduate and Undergraduate
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Money and Banking
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Economic Principles (Micro and Macro)
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Government Regulation
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Entrepreneurship and Business Organization
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PUBLICATIONS
1.
“The Meaning and the
Implications of Heterogeneity for Social Science Research” Working
SSRN paper May 2013.
2.
“Entrepreneurial Opportunity as
the Potential to Create Value” Working SSRN paper May 2013.
3.
“Hayek and Lachmann and the
Complexity of Capital”, R. Garrison (ed.) The Elgar Companion to
Hayek Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013
4.
“The Subprime Crisis”
with Adrian Ravier, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2012,
15(1): 45-74.
5.
“The Capital Based View of the
Firm” Review of
Austrian Economics 2011, 24 (4): 335–354.
6.
“Creativity or Coercion:
Alternative Perspectives on Rights to Intellectual Property”, Journal of
Business Ethics 2007, (71) 441–455.
7.
“The Firm in Disequilibrium:
Contributions from the Austrian Tradition” Explorations
in Austrian Economics, Advances in Austrian Economics, 2008.
8.
“The Capital Idea and the Scope
of Economics.” Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18 (2
)145-167.
9.
“Facts, Values and the Burden
of Proof” The Independent Review, Spring, 2007, XI (4)
503-517.
10. “Heterogeneous Human Capital,
Uncertainty, and the Structure of Plans: A Market Process Approach to Marriage
and Divorce” with Steven Horwitz Review of Austrian Economics,
2008, 21:1–21.
11.
“Human Capital: A Critical Perspective” Oxford Handbook of Human Capital
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
1.
“Entrepreneurship and the
Defense of Capitalism: An Examination of the Work of Israel Kirzner”. Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines. 12 (2/3)
June-September 2002: 203-212.
12.
“The Development of Austrian Economics: Revisiting the Neoclassical
Divide.” Review of
Austrian Economics 14 (4) 2001, 239-251.
13.
“The Market Process and the Economics of QWERTY: Two Views” Review
of Austrian Economics, 14 (1), 2001, 65-96.
14.
“Rent and Resources: A Market
Process Perspective” with Steven
E. Phelan, in Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic
Organization, Edited by Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, Aldershot: Edward
Elgar, 2001.
15. “Arriving at a Strategic Theory of the Firm,” with Steven E. Phelan International Journal
of Management Reviews. December 2000.
16.
Microsoft and the
Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory and Policy, Essays by Stan J. Liebowitz
and Steven E. Margolis, Edited with an Introduction by Peter Lewin,(New York University Press (U.S.) and Palgrave (U.K.)
2002).
17.
“My Teacher and
his Legacy,” Contribution to: “Professor Lachmann (1906 – 1990): Scholar,
Teacher, and Austrian School Critic of Late Classical Formalism in Economics”
in American Journal of Economics and Sociology 59 (3), July 2000,
381-390.
18.
“William Hutt and the
Economics of Apartheid” Constitutional Political Economy 11(3),
October 2000.
19.
“An Austrian Theory of the
Firm,” with Steven E. Phelan, Review of Austrian Economics,
13 (1), 2000 59-80.
20.
“Firms,
Strategies, and Resources: Contributions from Austrian Economics,” with Steven
E. Phelan, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, (2), 1999,
3-18.
21.
“Paradox in
Project-Based Enterprise: What Paradox,?” California Management Review,
with Steven E. Phelan, 42 (1) Fall 1999, 1-7
22.
Capital in Disequilibrium: the
role of capital in a changing world (New York and London:
Routledge, 1999) – recipient of the 1999 Smith Prize for the best book
published on Austrian Economics.
23.
“The Firm, Money and Economic
Calculation” American Journal
of Economics and Sociology, October
1998.
24.
“Hayekian Equilibrium and Change” Journal of
Economic Methodology 1997, 4:2, 245-266.
25.
“Capital and Time: Variations on a Hicksian Theme” Advances
in Austrian Economics vol, 4, 1997, 63-74.
26.
“Capital in Disequilibrium: A
Reexamination of the Capital Theory of Ludwig M. Lachmann” History of Political Economy Winter 1997, 1997, 29(3) 523-548.
27.
“Rothbard and
Mises on Interest: An Exercise in Theoretical Purity” Journal of the History
of Economic Thought, Spring 1997, 141-159.
28.
“Time Complexity and Change: Ludwig M. Lachmann's
Contributions to the Theory of Capital” Advances in Austrian Economics vol. 3, 1996.
29.
“Methods and
Metaphors in Capital Theory” Advances in Austrian Economics vol. 2,
1995.
30.
“Capital Theory”
entry in Companion to Austrian Economics, edited by Peter Boettke
(Edward Elgar, 1994).
31.
“Knowledge,
Expectations and Capital: The Economics of Ludwig M. Lachmann” Advances in
Austrian Economics vol. 1, 1994, 233-256.
32.
“Comment:
Austrian Economics and the Future of Macroeconomics” Austrian Economics
(Hillsdale: Hillsdale College Press, 1991) 345-354.
33. “Economic and Sociological Views of Discrimination in
Labor Markets: Persistence or Demise?” Sociological Spectrum, 9,
1989. With Paula England.
34.
“Capital Markets
and the Political Business Cycle,” in Political Business Cycles and the
Political Economy of Stagflation, Tom Willett, editor, Duke University
Press, 1988.
35.
“Long Run Versus
Short Run Cost of Electric Power Interruptions: A Cautionary Note,” with Steve
G. Parsons Energy Journal, April 1986.
36.
“The Prohibitive
Cost of Apartheid,” The Intercollegiate Review, October 1986.
37.
“Economic Policy
and the Capital Structure,” in Essays in Honor of Ludwig Lachmann, I.
Kirzner, editor, New York University Press, 1986.
38.
“The Layman's
Guide to the Value of Electric Power Reliability, Proceedings of the
Electric Power Research Institute, Seminar on the Value of Service Reliability
to Consumers, with Frank J. Allessio and Steve G. Parsons, 1984.
39.
“The Statistician
as Expert Witness,” Chapter VI of Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Law
and Justice Statistics (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice
Statistics 1984) with James Beckett.
40.
“Comment:
Competitive Money,” CATO Journal, Fall 1983.
41.
“Externalities:
Social Cost Versus Strict Liability,” CATO Journal, Spring 1982.
42.
“Perspectives on
the Cost of Inflation,” Southern Economic Journal, January 1982.
43.
“Indexation and
Inflation: A Note,” South African Journal of Economics, September 1977,
287-290.
44.
“On the
Definition and Measurement of Inflation,” South African Journal of Economics,
September 1977, 289-293.
45.
“On the
Definition of Inflation: Reply to Professor Botha” and “Reply to Mr.
Mittermaier” and Rejoinder to Professor Botha,” South African Journal of
Economics, March 1978, 71-86.
46.
“Money, Inflation
and Economic Growth,” The Investment Analysts Journal, April 1978, 8-14.
47.
“Subsidies and
Regulation in Medicine,” South African Journal of Hospital Medicine,
January 1978, 10-14.
48.
“Inflation, Common Fallacies
and Real Issues,” Fact and Opinion Papers, No. 3, (Second Edition), Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand 1978.
49.
“The Black-White
Wage Gap: 1952-1969,” South African Journal of Economics, June 1976.
50.
“The Essential
Role of Money in the Economy,” South African Journal of Economics,
September 1972, 268-274.
51.
“A Tentative
Consideration of the Methods and Efficiency of South African Monetary Policy in
Recent Years,” The South African Banker, November 1971, 398-410.
Popular Press
1.
Free-Marketeers
Should Welcome Regulation? The Freeman, October
2009.
2.
Recycling
Discredited Ideas The Freeman, April 2009.
BOOK REVIEWS in the South African Journal
of Economics, the Southern Economic Journal of the History of
Economic Ideas, Review of Austrian Economics and The Quarterly Review of
Austrian Economics.
Working papers:
The
Capital Based View of the Firm, 2010 (with Howard Baetjer)
Planned projects and work in progress.
“The Ethics and
Economics of Illegal Immigration”
“The Ethics and
Economics of Child-Adoption”
CONSULTING and OTHER EXPERIENCE
CRITERION INCORPORATED, April 1991 - July
1992.
Senior Consultant - Market development of labor
market and personnel related software. General consultation for labor market
situations.
COMPUSA (previously SOFT WAREHOUSE), March
1986 - March 1991.
Senior Vice President and founding
shareholder. Performed a variety of administrative duties for this $600 million
a year company (currently over $2.5 billion) - including design of
communications systems, payroll, personnel, cash control, credit management,
moves and changes, etc. Most recently, developed and administered a company
wide training program for new and existing employees.
CRITERION INCORPORATED, 1979 - 1986.
Consultation in the design of analysis for
Title VII litigation and affirmative action affected class analysis. Economic
damage calculation in lost profit, wrongful death and personal injury
situations. Testimony in Federal District Court.
PLANCO, INC., Economist, 1979 - 1980 (A
Government Contract Research Consulting Firm)
Provided part time assistance in the areas of
econometric methods, demographic analysis, human resources, labor economics and
macroeconomics.
CASTROL OIL SOUTH AFRICA
Consultant to this major British oil company
in South Africa in the building of an econometric model for forecasting the
quarterly sales of their main product lines.
SOUTH AFRICAN BREWERS GROUP
Consultant to this large conglomerate in
South Africa in the building of a comprehensive econometric model for five of
their divisions. 1977 - 1978.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Evidence given to the Commission of
Inquiry into South Africa's Monetary Policy (the De Kock Commission) 1978 and
1980.
Paper presented to the Standard Bank Conference
on South Africa's
monetary policy, “On Floating Exchange Rates,” September 1978.
Paper presented to AISEC South Africa
Conference, “Black Trade Unions for South Africa?,” June 1978.
Radio interview on “Foreign Investment in
South Africa,” with the South African Broadcasting Corporation, June 1978.
TV appearance on panel discussion of “Science
Technology and the Future,” South African Broadcasting Corporation, March 1978.
Paper presented to the Foreign Policy Study
Foundation, Inc. (of the Rockefeller Foundation) on “The South African and
International Economy,” for the Study Commission on U.S. Policy toward Southern
Africa, New York City, September 15, 1979.
Paper presented at SUNY Binghamton,
“Perspectives on the Cost of Inflation,” November 1979. Presented also at New York University (March 1980) and the Southern
Economic Association (November 1980).
Participant, Institute of Humane
Studies Seminar on Monetary Institutions, New
York City, November 1980.
Organizer, Institute of Humane Studies
Seminar in Modern Austrian Economics. Paper presented on “Austrian Economics
and the Problem of Inflation”, University
of Texas at Dallas, April 1981.
Paper presented at the Institute
of Humane Studies Seminar “The Role of
Subjectivism in Modern Economics,” on “Austrian Aspects of Monetary Theory and
Inflation,” University
of Chicago, April 1981.
Paper presented to the Western Economic
Association, “Denationalization of Money,” July 1981.
Participant, Liberty Fund Seminar, “Austrian
Analysis in Current Research,” paper on “Austrian Aspects of Monetary Theory
and Inflation,” June 1982.
Paper presented to the meeting of the
Southwest Social Science Association, “Reconceptualizing Statistical
Discrimination,” with Paula England. Spring 1982.
Discussant, Cato Conference, “The Search for
Monetary Stability,” Washington,
DC, January 1983.
Participant, Liberty Fund Research Seminar on Austrian
Economics, Paper on “Subjectivism, Rational Expectations, and Economics,”
August 1983.
Paper presented to workshop of the American
Statistical Association on “The Use of Experts and Statistics in Legal
Proceedings”, Toronto,
August 1983.
Paper presented at the American Economic
Association on “The Rise and Decline of Nations: Comment on Mancur Olson, Dallas, December 1984
Paper presented at the Southwest Social
Science Association on “Rational Expectations and the New Classical
Macroeconomics'“ Houston, March 1985.
Presentation to the Alliance
of Christians and Jews on “South Africa:
The Tragedy of Apartheid,” Dallas,
March 1985.
Paper on “Free Banking and the Stability of
Money”, Economics Seminar University of Texas at Arlington, February 1985.
Paper on “Equilibrium and Time, Hayek after
50 Years”, Economics Seminar University of Texas at Arlington, February 1986.
Paper on “Hayek and the Austrian Monetary
Tradition”, Southwest Economic Association, March 1988.
Paper on “Knowledge, Expectations and
Capital: the Economics of Ludwig M Lachmann” New York University,
September 1992.
“Comment” on Out of Work seminar in Washington D.C. for the
Center for Free Enterprise
and Entrepreneurship, September 1993
“Entrepreneurship for the Twenty First
Century” Reihnardt College, Waleska,
Georgia,
February 1994.
“Change and Capital Structures” paper
presented to the Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason
University, March 1994.
“Murray
Rothbard on Interest and Capital,” Southern Economics Association, November
1995.
“Capital and Change”, NYU workshop December
1995.
Southern Economic Association, participant
and/or panel chair, 1996 - 2010.
Treasurer, Society for the Development of
Austrian Economics, 1996 – present.
President, Society for the Development of
Austrian Economics, 2000.
Liberty Fund Seminar, the economics of W. H.
Hutt, Chattanooga TN, 2003.
Mont Pelerin Society meetings, 2003-2004
Liberty Fund Seminar, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
October 2004..
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