Curriculum Vitae

Daniel B. Klein

Associate Professor, Economics

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053

ph 408-554-6951, fax 408-554-2331, dklein@scu.edu

Home page: http://lsb.scu.edu/~dklein

February 2005

 

All activities listed in reverse chronology

 

Education

Ph.D., Economics, New York University, defended 1989, conferred 1990.

B.S., Economics, George Mason University, 1984.

 

Employment

Associate Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University, September 1997 - present.

Visiting Fellow, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, Sept. 15 - Nov. 20, 1998.

Visiting Scholar, City University, Stockholm, Sweden, August 10-28, 1998.

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine, 1989-1996.

Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 1988-1989.

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, 1988-1989.

 

Professional Roles

Director, Civil Society Institute, Santa Clara University

President and Board Chair, Institute of Spontaneous Order Economics, Santa Clara, CA

Editor, Econ Journal Watch (econjournalwatch.org)

Associate Fellow, Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Adjunct Fellow, Cato Institute, Washington, DC.

Research Fellow, Independent Institute, Oakland, California

Adjunct Scholar, Reason Public Policy Institute, Los Angeles, California

Member, Academic Advisory Council, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England.

Member, Council of Scholars, Institute for Civil Society, Mountain View, CA.

Member, Council of Scholars, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, New York.

Member, Bd of Advisors, Business and Economic Studies, Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco

Member, Editorial Board, Knowledge, Technology and Policy (ed. David Clarke).

Member, Editorial Board, Planning and Markets (eds. Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson)

 

Awards and Prizes

Spontaneous Order Award, from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, June 2004.

 

Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, awarded by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for the Civil Society Institute, Dec. 2003.

 

Breetwor Fellowship for the 2002-03 and 2003-04 academic years, Santa Clara University.

 

Extra-Ordinary Performance Award, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, for performance during the 2000-2001 year.  Award for “triple-crown” outstanding performance in research, teaching, and service.

 

Smith Prize in Austrian Economics, 2000, awarded annually by a Selection Committee of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics for Best Article (in any journal), for the article:”Discovery and the Deepself,” Review of Austrian Economics, 11, 1999: 47-76.

 

Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, 1998, given by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation for outstanding public-policy book; for Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit (Brookigs, 1997).

 

Second prize in essay contest held by the Mont Pelerin Society on "Responsibility and Choice in a Free Society," for essay "Liberty, Dignity, and Responsibility." The award include a cash prize and a travel grant to the 1996 General Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Vienna, September, 1996.

 

Best dissertation award (Ehrlich Prize), 1988-89 academic year, Department of Economics, New York University.

 

RESEARCH

 

Books

Co-editor (with F.E. Foldvary): The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, a volume about how new technology makes obsolete many of the standard arguments against free enterprise.  New York University Press, 2003.

 

Editor: What Do Economists Contribute?, a volume of previous published articles by R. Coase, T. Schelling, F. Hayek, F. Graham, W. Hutt, I. Kirzner, D. McCloskey, C. Philbrook, and G. Tullock on being an economist; the central theme is that what society most needs from economists is instruction and enlightenment in the basics of the discipline.  New York: New York University Press (softback and hardback), 1999; London: Macmillan (hardback), 1999.  London: Palgrave (softback edition), 2001. 

·         Chinese translation:  To be published by Law Press China.

 

Editor:  Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, an interdisciplinary volume of articles, mostly previously published, on the emergence and maintenance of reputation and trust by nongovernmental means.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

 

Co-author: Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit  (with A. Moore and B. Reja).  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, Washington D. C., 1997.  The book argues that curb zones and bus stops are a crucial component of transit services.  Many problems of urban transit can be traced to the commons problem existing at the curb.  Privatizing curb zones in five-year leases would create a foundation for free enterprise in urban transit.  The book won a 1998 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award from the Atlas Foundation.  It has been reviewed in JEL, EJ, SEJ, Trans. Res., JAPA, Regulation, and elsewhere.

 

 

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

“Economists’ Policy Views and Voting,” (w/ C. Stern), Public Choice, forthcoming.

 

“Democrats and Republicans in Anthropology and Sociology: How Do They Differ on Public Policy Issues?,” (with C. Stern), The American Sociologist, forthcoming.

 

How Politically Diverse are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields,” (with C. Stern), Academic Questions, forthcoming.

 

How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford? Voter Registration Data across 23 Academic Departments,” (with A. Western), Academic Questions, forthcoming.

 

·         Note: The Klein-Stern and Klein-Western studies have received notice at The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal, The Economist, Science, The American Enterprise, National Review, The Weekly Standard, CNN News, Fox News, and many other newspapers, magazines, television, and radio programs.

 

The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as Much as They Do),” The Indepdendent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.

 

Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard,” Reason Papers, 27, Fall 2004: 7-42.

 

"Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America," (with J. Majewski), EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples, entry added August 12 2004.

 

Statist Quo Bias: A Comment on Thaler and Sunstein’s ‘Libertarian Paternalism,’” Econ Journal Watch, 1(2), August 2004: 260-271.

 

Reply to Sunstein,” Econ Journal Watch, 1(2), August 2004: 274-276.

 

Institutional Ties of Journal of Development Economics Authors and Editors,” (with T. DiCola), Econ Journal Watch, 1(2), August 2004: 319-330.

 

The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?,” (with E. Chiang), Econ Journal Watch, 1(1), April 2004: 134-165.

 

Citation Counts and SSCI in Personnel Decisions: A Survey of Economics Departments,” (with E. Chiang), Econ Journal Watch, 1(1), April 2004: 166-174.

 

Experiment on Entrepreneurial Discovery: An Attempt to Demonstrate the Conjecture of Hayek and Kirzner,” (with H. Demmert) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 50, 2003:295-310.

 

The Half-life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues,” (w. F. Foldvary) Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 15(3) Fall 2002: 82-92.

 

Asymmetric Interpretations,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, March 2002: 23-29.

 

“A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty: Assist the Everyman,” Eastern Economic Journal, 27(2), Spring 2001:185-202.  Also, “Response to Comments” [in the symposium, my lead article was commented on by Gordon Tullock, Deirdre McCloskey, Israel M. Kirzner, C.A.E. Goodhart, Robert H. Frank, and James K. Galbraith], Eastern Economic Journal, 27(2), Spring 2001: 231-238.

·         Jointly published as A Plea to Economists Who Favour Liberty: Assist the Everyman, Occasional Paper 118, London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001, (105 pp.). 

 

“The Demand for and Supply of Assurance,” Economic Affairs 21(1), March 2001: 4-11.

·         Reprinted (expanded version) in Market Failure or Success: The New Debate, eds. T. Cowen and E. Crampton.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003: 172-192.

 

Credit Information Reporting: Why Free Speech Is Vital to Social Accountability and Consumer Opportunity,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Winter 2001, 325-44.

 

“Policy Medicine Versus Policy Quackery: Economists Against the FDA,” Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Spring 2000, 13(1), 92-101.

 

The Ways of John Gray: A Libertarian Commentary,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Summer 1999, 63-89.

 

"Discovery and the Deepself," Review of Austrian Economics, 1999, 11, 47-76.

 

"Planning and the Two Coordinations, With Illustration in Urban Transit," Planning and Markets, 1998.

 

"Quality and Safety Assurance: How Voluntary Social Processes Remedy Their Own Shortcomings," The Independent Review: A Quarterly Journal of Political Economy, Spring 1998, 537-555.

·         Reprinted in Self-Regulation in the Civil Society, ed. A.V. Desai, published by Centre for Civil Society, New Dehli, India, 1998.

·         Reprinted in Assurance and Trust in a Great Society by D. B. Klein. Occasional Paper Number Two.  Irvington, New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 2000.

 

"Convention, Social Order, and the Two Coordinations," Constitutional Political Economy, 1997, 8, 319-335.

 

"Curb Rights: Eliciting Competition and Entrepreneurship in Urban Transit," (with A. Moore and B. Reja), The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Summer 1997, pp. 29-54.

·         Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Economics, ed. A. Tabarrok.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002: 275-98.

 

"Liberty, Dignity, and Responsibility: The Moral Triad of a Good Society," The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 1(3), Winter 1997, pp. 325-351.

·         Reprinted (slightly revised) in 3 Libertarian Essays by D.B. Klein. Irvington, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1998.

 

"Use, Esteem, and Profit in Voluntary Provision: Toll Roads in California, 1850 - 1902," (with C. Yin), Economic Inquiry, October 1996, pp. 678-692.

 

"Clean on Paper, Dirty on the Road: Troubles with California's Smog Check," (with A. Glazer and C. Lave), Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, January 1995, pp. 85-92.

 

"If Government is So Villainous, How Come Government Officials Don't Seem Like Villains?," Economics & Philosophy 10, 1994, 91-106.

·         Reprinted (significantly revised) in 3 Libertarian Essays by D.B. Klein. Irvington, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1998.

·         Reprinted in The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy, ed. P. Kurrild-Klitgaard, Elsevier publishers, forthcoming.

 

"Plank Road Fever in Antebellum America" (with J. Majewski), New York History, 1994, 39-65.

 

"A Game-Theoretic Rendering of Promises and Threats" (with B. O'Flaherty), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1993, 295-314.

 

"How to Franchise Highways," (with G. J. Fielding), Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 27 (2), May 1993, 113-130.

·         Reprinted in Transport Policy, edited by Kenneth Button and Roger Stough. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

·         Reprinted in Japanese translation in two parts in Kosokudoro to Jidosha (Expressways and Automobiles), 1994, Vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 51-59, no. 3, pp. 59-65.

 

"Responding to Relative Decline: The Plank Road Boom of Antebellum New York" (with J. Majewski and C.Baer), The Journal of Economic History, March 1993, 106-122.

 

"Economy, Community and Law: The Turnpike Movement in New York, 1797-1845" (with J. Majewski), Law & Society Review, 26 (3), Fall 1992, 469-512.

 

"Promise Keeping in the Great Society: A Model of Credit Information Sharing," Economics and Politics, July 1992, 117-136.

·         Reprinted in Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, ed. D. B. Klein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 

 

"Private Toll Roads: Learning from the Nineteenth Century" (with G. J. Fielding), Transportation Quarterly, No. 7, July 1992, 321-341.

 

"Go Ahead and Let Him Try: A Plea for Egonomic Laissez-Faire,"  Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 35(1), 1992, 3-20. 

·         Reprinted (slightly revised) in 3 Libertarian Essays by D.B. Klein. Irvington, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1998.

·         Reprinted in Peter J. Boettke, ed., The Intellectual Legacy of F. A. Hayek in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 2. London: Edward Elgar, 2000.

 

"The Microfoundations of Rules versus Discretion," Constitutional Political Economy, Autumn 1990, 1-19.

 

"The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods?  The Turnpike Companies of Early America," Economic Inquiry, October 1990, 788-812.

·         Reprinted in The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, eds. D. Beito et al.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002: 76-101.

·         Reprinted in Famous Fables of Economics: Myths of Market Failures, ed. D. Spulber. London: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 2002: 49-69.

 

"Tie-ins and the Market Provision of Collective Goods," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1987, 451-474.

 

"Deductive Economic Methodology in the French Enlightenment: Condillac and Destutt de Tracy," History of Political Economy, Spring 1985, 51-71.

 

 

Chapters and encyclopedia entries

“Consumer Protection,” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, forthcoming.

 

America’s Toll Roads Heritage: The Achievements of Private Initiative in the 19th Century,” (w/ J. Majewski), to appear in Paving the Way for Private Roads, edited by Gabriel Roth, Transaction Publishers.

 

Fencing the Airshed: Using Remote Sensing to Police Auto Emissions,” in The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, F.E. Foldvary and D.B. Klein, eds.. New York University Press, forthcoming.

 

“Introduction,” (with F.E. Foldvary) in The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, F.E. Foldvary and D.B. Klein, eds.. New York University Press, forthcoming.

 

“Assurance and Trust,” The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, ed. T. G. Palmer, sponsored by The Cato Institute.

 

”Introduction: What Do Economists Contribute?,What Do Economists Contribute?, D.B. Klein, ed.  New York: New York University Press (softback and hardback), 1999; London: Macmillan (hardback), 1999.  London: Palgrave (softback edition), 2001.

 

"Discovery Factors of Economic Freedom: Respondence, Epiphany, and Serendipity," in John R. Lott, Jr., ed., Uncertainty and Economic Evolution: Essays in Honor of Armen A. Alchian (London: Routledge, 1997), 165-180.

 

"Knowledge, Reputation, and Trust, By Voluntary Means," Introduction to D. B. Klein, ed.,  Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, 1-14.

 

"Good Conduct in the Great Society: Adam Smith and the Role of Reputation," (with J. Shearmur) in D. B. Klein, ed., Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, 29-45.

·         Reprinted (revised) in Assurance and Trust in a Great Society by D. B. Klein. Occasional Paper Number Two.  Irvington, New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 2000.

 

"Trust for Hire: Voluntary Solutions for Quality and Safety," in D. B. Klein, ed., Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, 97-133.

·         Reprinted in Self-Regulation in the Civil Society, ed. A.V. Desai, published by Centre for Civil Society, New Dehli, India, 1998.

·         Reprinted (revised) in Assurance and Trust in a Great Society by D. B. Klein. Occasional Paper Number Two.  Irvington, New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 2000.

 

 

Extensive Website (endorsed by a Board of Readers consisting of leading academic authorities)

Is the FDA Safe and Effective? (with A. Tabarrok).  A sophisticate 35,000 word website on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; a project of the Independent Institute.  Online at www.FDAReview.org.

 

Articles in Conference Proceedings

"British Bus Deregulation: Using Curb Rights to Improve Competition" (with A. Moore), Proceedings of the Chartered Institute of Transport (located in Birmingham, UK), 6(4), December 1997, 13-29.

 

"From Trunk to Branch: Toll Roads in New York, 1800-1860" (with C. Baer and J. Majewski), Essays in Economic and Business History, vol. 11, 1993, 191-209.

 

Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals

Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (Norton, 1999/2000), reviewed in Journal of Economic Literature, 39 (December 2001): 1262-63.

 

Timur Kuran, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification, reviewed in Cato Journal, 18(2), 1999, 309-10.

 

Andrew Gamble, Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty (Blackwell, 1996), reviewed in Constitutional Political Economy, 1997, 255-259.

 

Janet T. Landa, Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange (University of Michigan Press, 1994), reviewed in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1997, pp. 134-35.

 

Thomas Szasz, Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (Praeger, 1992), reviewed in Southern Economic Journal, January 1993, 552-553.

 

Professional Reports and Articles Published by Public Policy Organizations

Who Certifies Off-Label?,” (with A. Tabarrok), Regulation, Summer 2004: 60-63.

 

"Losing Patients: Making the FDA friendlier to safety and innovation" (w. A. Tabarrok), Privatization Watch, No 322. Nov 2003, Reason Public Policy Institute, pp. 7, 9.

 

How New Technology Can Expand Privatization,” (w. F. Foldvary), Three Part series, Privatization Watch, No. 319, Aug 2003, pp. 6-7; No. 320 Sept 2003, p. 12; No. 321 October 2003, p. 4, Reason Public Policy Institute.

 

“Technology and Market Failure” (with Fred Foldvary), Regulation, Summer 2001, 9-11.

 

“Credit Information Reporting, Social Accountability, and Consumer Opportunity,” The Future of Financial Privacy, ed. J. Gattuso and T. Miller (Washington, DC: Competitive Enterprise Institute), 2000, 150-163.

 

"Schedule Jockeying and Route Swamping: Bus Markets in Britain Need Kerb Rights," (with A. Moore), Economic Affairs, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, June 1997, 29-33.

 

"The Smog Reduction Road: Remote Sensing Versus the Clean Air Act" (with P. Koskenoja), Policy Analysis, no. 249, Cato Institute, 1996.  (This article was the subject of a major news story in The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Denver Post, The Boston Herald, and The National Journal.)

 

"High Occupancy / Toll Lanes: Phasing in Congestion Pricing a Lane at a Time," (with G. J. Fielding), Policy Study no. 170, Reason Foundation, November 1993.  (This article was the subject of a news article in The Los Angeles Times.)

 

"In Defense of the Credit Bureau" (with J. Richner), Cato Journal, 1992, 393-412.  (This article was cited and quoted by The Wall Street Journal.)

 

 

Articles in Access: Research at the University of California Transportation Center

[Access is a quarterly journal of the transportation research community at the University of California.  The articles are written for accessibility and relevance to current transportation issues.  They are not refereed but are judged by peers at the editorial office in Berkeley.]

 

"Hot Lanes: Introducing Congestion Pricing One Lane at a Time," (with G. Fielding), Access, Fall 1997, 11-15.

 

"Free to Cruise: Creating Curb Space for Jitneys," (with A. Moore and B. Reja), Access, Spring 1996, 2-6.

 

"Private Toll Roads in America -- The First Time Around," Access, Spring 1993, 17-21.

 

Articles Selected for Reprint in Professional Anthologies

“If Government Is So Villainous, How Come Government Officials Don’t Seem Like Villains?,” reprinted in The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy, ed. P. Kurrild-Klitgaard, Elsevier publishers, forthcoming.

 

“The Demand for and Supply of Assurance,” (expanded), reprinted in Market Failure or Success: The New Debate, pp. 172-192, eds. T. Cowen and E. Crampton.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002.

 

"Curb Rights: Eliciting Competition and Entrepreneurship in Urban Transit" (with A. Moore and B. Reja).  Reprinted (pp. 275-98) in Entrepreneurial Economics, ed. A. Tabarrok.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

 

"The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods?  The Turnpike Companies of Early America."  Reprinted (pp. 76-101) in The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, eds. D. Beito et al.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

 

"The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods?  The Turnpike Companies of Early America."  Reprinted (pp. 49-69) in Famous Fables of Economics: Myths of Market Failures, ed. D. Spulber. London: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

 

"Go Ahead and Let Him Try: A Plea for Egonomic Laissez-Faire." Reprinted in Peter J. Boettke, ed., The Intellectual Legacy of F. A. Hayek in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 2. London: Edward Elgar, 2000.

 

"How To Franchise Highways," reprinted in Transport Policy, edited by Kenneth Button and Roger Stough.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

 

"Promise Keeping in the Great Society: A Model of Credit Information Sharing," in D. B. Klein, ed., Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 

 

Other Reprintings and Translations

Ny Teknik Försvagar Staten,” (”New Technology Weakens the State”), (w. F. Foldvary), Svensk Tidskrift, Nov 2003: 15-16.

 

"Vertrauen und Zuversicht" (Assurance and Trust, , trans. K. Steinhoefler), Wirtschafts Politische Blaetter (Economic Policy Papers) 48, Issue 1/2001 January/February 2001: 114-17.

 

"Die Oekonomen und die 'Unsichtbare Hand': Gilt sie auch fuer die Wirtschaftswissenschaften selbst?" (Economists’ Misplaced Faith in an Invisible Hand, trans. K. Steinhoefler), Wirtschafts Politische Blaetter (Economic Policy Papers) 47, Issue 5-6/2000, November/December 2000: 573-577.

 

"Quality and Safety Restrictions: Knowledge-Externality and Paternalism," Self-Regulation in the Civil Society, ed. A.V. Desai, published by Centre for Civil Society, New Dehli, India, 1998.

 

"Trust for Hire: Voluntary Remedies for Quality and Safety," Self-Regulation in the Civil Society, ed. A.V. Desai, published by Centre for Civil Society, New Dehli, India, 1998.

 

"Free to Cruise: Creating Curb Space for Jitneys," Policy (the journal of the Centre for Independent Studies, Australia), Summer 1996-97, pp. 40-42.

 

"How to Franchise Highways" (with G. J. Fielding).  Translated into Japanese and reprinted in two parts in Kosokudoro to Jidosha (Expressways and Automobiles), 1994, Vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 51-59, no. 3, pp. 59-65.

 

"In Defense of the Credit Bureau" (with J. Richner).  Translated into Japanese and circulated as a Working Paper by the International Business Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Summer 1992.                                                                         

 

Recent Nonrefereed Publications

“Republican Professor: Academic Oxymoron,” Investor’s Business Daily, Feb. 10, 2005, p. A13.

 

“Letter to the Editor,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 11, 2004, 50 (4), p. B14.

 

“Technological Advancement: The Receding Case for Government Intervention,” (w. F. Foldvary) STS Nexus, 4(2) 2004: 38-45.

 

”Ny teknik gör regleringar föråldrade,” (”New Technology Makes Regulations Obsolete”) (w. F. Foldvary),  Trelleborgs Allehanda 26 July 2003 and Tidningen Ångermanland, Sweden, 28 July 2003.

 

“Har Konkurrensverket en hopplös uppgift?,” (”Is Anti-trust a Hopeless Task?”) (w. F. Foldvary), Gotlands Allehanda 31 July 2003 p. 12 and Västerviks Tidningen, 1 August 2003, p. 2. 

 

“Virtual Barbed-Wire,” (w. F. Foldvary), Tech Central Station, 28 July 2003.

 

“The Fatal Conceit Revisited,” (w. F. Foldvary), Tech Central Station, Feb. 17, 2003

 

“They Take More than Half,” (w. A. Raish), Ideas on Liberty, February 2003, 44-45.

 

“A Dose of Economics for FDA,” (w/ A. Tabarrok) Providence Journal, 25 Oct 2002: B7.

 

“To Resolve Junk Mail, Junk Monopoly,” Cato Daily Dispatch July 12, 2002; a variation appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune, July 21, 2002.

 

“How to Speed Up Drug Approval,” (second in a two-part series), Consumers’ Research, 85 (5), May 2002: 14-18..

 

“Time to End America’s Drug Lag: FDA Pre-market Approval of Drugs Has a Cost: Lost Cures,” (cover-story and first in a two-part series), Consumers’ Research, 85 (4), April 2002: 10-14.

 

“FDA Should Loosen Its Medicine Stranglehold,” Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Feb 2002.

 

Seguridad Y Confianza: La Mejor Proteccion Del Consumidor,” (Assurance and Trust, trans. V. Wachnitz) Mercado Libre website, Fundacion Atlas, Buenos Aires, 2000.

 

“In Defense of Credit Reporting,”(cover story) Consumers’ Research, December 2000: 10-15.

 

“Economists’ Misplaced Faith in an Invisible Hand,” Ideas on Liberty, August 2000: 31-33.

 

“Trust and Privacy on the Net,” Ideas on Liberty, May 2000.

 

Confiance et Confidentialite Sur Internet,” (Trust and Privacy on the Net, trans. H. LePage), Euro-92 website, June 2000. www.euro92.org.

 

Pantomim I Leksaksekonomin,” (Pantomime in the Toy Economy, trans. N. Berggren), Svensk Tidskrift (Stockholm), nr. 1, 2000.

 

“What Do Academic Economists Contribute?”, USA Today magazine, March 2000: 18-19. 

·         Reprinted in Policy, Winter 2000 16(2): 31-33.

·         Reprinted as “Are Academic Economists Useful?,Katallaxia: The Journal of the University of St. Andrews Liberty Club, 2002, 18-19.

 

“Who Is the Practitioner of Political Economy?,Challenge, Sept/Oct 1998, 113-20.

 

Report for the California Legislature


"Clean For a Day: Troubles with California's Smog Check," (with A. Glazer and C. Lave), a report written for the California State Senate Transportation Committee.  Printed as University of California Transportation Center Working Paper No. 163, 1993.  (This report received news coverage from The Washington Post and several other major papers.)

 

Submitted Papers

 “Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements? Testing an Argument by Structured Conversation with Experts,” (w/ A. Tabarrok) resubmitted to Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law.

 

 “Is There a Free-Market Economist in the House? The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members,” (w/ C. Stern) submitted to Journal of Law and Economics.

 

“Are Anthropologists Providing Students with a Variety of Viewpoints?,” (with C. Stern) submitted to Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

 

 

Other Grants and Scholarships

Conference co-director, Liberty Fund conference, “Liberty, Economics, and Social Process,” Tucson, 18-21 November.

 

Discussion Leader, Liberty Fund conference “Property Rights and Liberty,” Stockholm, 12-15 June 2003.

 

Conference Co-Director, “Technological Advancement and the Changing Context of Public Policy Justification,” Center for the Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University, January 2000.

 

Conference Director, "Liberty and the Problem of Cultural and Institutional Rigidities," Liberty Fund, to be held October 7-10, 1999 in San Jose, California.

 

Summer Support Grant, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University, for expenses on project, ATechnological Advancement and the Receding Case for Government Intervention.”

 

University Grant, Santa Clara University, for expenses on project, ATechnological Advancement and the Receding Case for Government Intervention.”

 

Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Award for Exceptional Achievment in Scholarship, 1998.

 

Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Award for Exceptional Achievment in Scholarship, 1997.

 

Conference Director, "Liberty and the Limits of Economics in the Work of Ronald Coase," Liberty Fund, to be held June 11-14, 1998 in Sunnyvale, California.

 

Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Research Grant, "Experimental Study of Entrepreneurial Discovery," (with H. Demmert), 1997-98.

 

University Grant, Santa Clara University,"What Do Economists Contribute?,” to edit a volume of essays on role of economists in public discourse.

 

Liberty Fund conference, "The Voluntary City," participant.  Travel and honorarium, Berkeley, California, April 3-6, 1997.

 

Liberty Fund conference, "Blackstone and Liberty," participant.  Travel and honorarium, Arlington, Virginia, November 14-17, 1996 (forthcoming).

 

Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden, invitation and travel to present "Coordination and Convention, and Metacoordination and Social Order," at a conference on Social Mechanism to be held in Stockholm, June 6-7, 1996.

 

Liberty Fund conference on environmental economics, participant.  Travel and honorarium, Summer 1993, Big Sky, Montana.

 

Academy of International Business, Japan, travel grant to Tokyo to present "In Defense of the Credit Bureau" at Waseda University in Tokyo and at the Academy of International Business conference in Shanghai, Summer 1992.

 

Earhart Foundation, research grant, 1991, to research toll road history.

 

Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid, Economic History Association, 1990, to research toll road history.

 

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, Summer resident fellowship (2 weeks), 1990, to research toll road history.

 

F. Leroy Hill Fellowship, Summer 1990, awarded by the Institute for Humane Studies, to research, "Economy, Community, and Law: The Turnpike Movement in New York, 1797-1845."

 

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1988-89, awarded by the Institute for Humane Studies and enjoyed as a Visiting Scholar at the Dept of Economics, Stanford University. 

 

Grant Awards from the University of California Transportation Center/Institute of Transportation Studies

Sole Principal Investigator, "Edge Transit: Decentralization and Competition in Transit Services," 1995-96.

 

Sole Principal Investigator, "Edge Transit: Market Driven Discovery in Transit," (Transit Systems funding), 1994/95.

 

Sole Principal Investigator, "Evolution of the American Highway System," 1994/95. 

 

Sole Principal Investigator, "Evolution of the American Highway System," 1993/94. 

 

Sole Principal Investigator, "Toll Road Development," 1992/93.

 

Co-Principal Investigator, "Toll Road Development," 1991/92.

 

Sole Principal Investigator, "Toll Road History," Summer 1990.

 

 

Recent Invited Seminar Presentations and Lectures

“The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as Much as They Do),” public lecture, Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, September 8, 2004.

 

“The Voluntary City: Restoring Urban Life in Crisis Time,” one of three featured speakers, Independent Institute, Oakland, February 4, 2004.

 

“Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue against FDA Efficacy Requirements? Testing an Argument by Structured Conversations with Experts,” Workshop in Public Economics, Uppsala University, Dec. 16, 2003.

 

Presentation of Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues for Eudoxa, Continental Hotel, Stockholm, 27 Aug. 03.

 

Participation in the Ratio Institute intensive conference, “Challenges to the Values and Institutions of a Free Society,” and presented “Biases against the Free Society,” Stockholm, 22-24 Aug 2003,

 

“Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue against FDA Efficacy Requirements? Testing an Argument by Structured Conversations with Experts,” at Sweden’s Medical Product Agency (Läkemedelsverket), analogous to the FDA,  15 Aug 2003.  The audience included several of the important people at the agency, and one of the two Swedish CPMP members (the scientific advisory board of the European Medical Evaluation Agency).

 

America’s Toll Road Heritage: The Achievements of Private Initiative in the 19th Century,” Social Science History Seminar, Stanford University, April 16, 2003.

 

“Experiment on Entrepreneurial Discovery: An Attempt to Demonstrate the Conjecture of Hayek and Kirzner,” International Foundation for Research in Experimental Sciences Seminar, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences, George Mason University, March 2003.

 

“The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues,” Book Forum for the Foldvary-Klein co-edited book of that title, with three commentators, Cato Institute, Washington, DC, March 2003.

 

“Hoisting the Flag of Spontaneous Order Economics,” Mercatus Center Graduate Workshop, George Mason University, March 2003.

 

“Do Off-Label Practices Argue Against Efficacy Requirements?  Testing an Argument by Structured Conversations with Experts,” Austrian Economics Seminar, New York University, March 2003.

 

“Experiment on Entrepreneurial Discovery: An Attempt to Demonstrate the Conjecture of Hayek and Kirzner,” Political Economy research seminar, Stockholm University, May 2001.

 

“Esteem Mechanisms and the Toll Roads of 19th Century America,” City University seminar, Stockholm, May 2001.

 

“The Demand for and Supply of Assurance,” J. M. Kaplan Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, George Mason University, 6 April 2001.

 

“The Demand for and Supply of Assurance,” Economics Seminar, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 4 April 2001.

 

“Fencing the Airshed: Using Remote Sensing to Police Auto Emissions,” Economics Seminar, Washington University, 4 April 2001.

 

“Technology and the Case for Free Enterprise,” Economics Public Lecture, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 4 April 2001.

 

“Fencing the Airshed: Using Remote Sensing to Police Auto Emissions,” Chemistry Dept./Policy School seminar, University of Denver, 2 April 2001.

 

“The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How Technology Affects Old Policy Issues,” Development Economics Seminar, University of Southern California, March 2001.

 

“Distinguishing the Two Coordinations, and Why It Matters,” General Seminar, City University, Stockholm, December, 2000.

 

“Technology and the Case for Free Enterprise,” Austrian Economics Seminar, New York University, 11 Sept. 2000.

 

“Assurance and Trust in Commercial Society,” Institute of Economic Affairs, London, June 2000.

 

Membership

American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Southern Economic Association.

 

Refereeing