James D. Gwartney
Professor of Economics.
Dr. Gwartney is co-author of Economics: Public and Private Choice, a widely used economics textbook that is now in its eighth edition. His work on economic freedom and economic growth has been acclaimed throughout the world.
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Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1969.
Interests
The impact of economic and social institutions on economic growth, public finance, and labor economics.
Selected Publications
- Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report (with Robert Lawson), published by Cato Institute in the United States, Fraser Institute in Canada, and a network of institutes in 70 other countries, 2006.
- Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity, (with Richard Stroup and Dwight Lee), New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. (Translated to Arabic and Spanish in 2006; translations are forthcoming in Chinese, Korean, Georgian, and Mongolian.)
- Gwartney, J., R. Holcombe and R. Lawson. 2006. "Institutions and the Impact of Investment on Growth." Kyklos 59(2), 255-76.
- Gwartney, J. and R. Lawson. 2006. "The Impact of Tax Policy on Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Allocation of Taxes." Social Philosophy and Policy 23(2), 28-52. Also appeared in Taxation, Economic Prosperity, and Distributive Justice (2006) by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul (eds.) (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press), 28-52.
- Instructor's Manual for "Teaching Tools for Macroeconomics, Government, and International Trade from John Stossel -- College edition" (with Joseph Calhoun, John Morton, and Mark Schug) (2006), published by ABC News.
- Instructor's Manual for "Teaching Tools for Microeconomics from John Stossel -- College edition" (with Joseph Calhoun, John Morton, and Mark Schug) (2006), published by ABC News.