About the Columnists
Biographies of Econlib columnists and frequent contributors
About the Columnists
Pierre Lemieux is an Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences at the University of Quebec in Outaouais. In addition to his seven previous books, published especially for Belles
Lettres and the Presses Universitaires de France, Professor Lemieux has published many articles in the international press and in scientific journals. He is also a
Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Kevin Corcoran
Kevin Corcoran discovered his love of economics while enlisted in the military. After nine years in the Marine Corps, he left military life behind to study economics at George Mason University. When not reading and writing about economics, he spends his days working in the private sector as a healthcare analyst and raising his children.
Arnold Kling
Arnold Kling received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
For more information, see his bio on EconLog.
Arnold Kling is co-editor of EconLog, along with Bryan Caplan.
Jonathan Murphy
Jonathan Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Nicholls State University.
Walter Block
Walter Block is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics in the College of Business at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Mises Institute and the Hoover Institute. Block has previously taught at the University of Central Arkansas, Holy Cross College, Baruch (C.U.N.Y.) and Rutgers Universities. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College (C.U.N.Y.) in 1964 and a Ph.D. degree in economics from Columbia University in 1972.
John Phelan
John Phelan is an Economist at Center of the American Experiment.
He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London, where he earned a BSc in Economics, and of the London School of Economics where he earned an MSc.
Bryan Cutsinger
Bryan Cutsinger is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University.
Tyler Watts
Watts began working in the family construction business at age 10, gaining both useful skills and a deep curiosity about the world of business and entrepreneurship. He went on to study economics at Hillsdale College.
After stints in the construction and finance industries, Watts earned a PhD in economics from George Mason University in 2010 and began his career in academia. Watts has taught at public and private universities in Michigan, Indiana, and Texas. Currently a Professor at Ferris State University.
Michael Munger
Prof. Munger received his Ph.D. in Political Economy at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. Following his graduate training, he worked as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission. His first teaching job was in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College, followed by appointments in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-1990) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990-7). He moved to Duke University in 1997, where he now chairs the Political Science Department. Munger served as President of the Public Choice Society from 1996-8. In addition to more than 80 articles and papers, Prof. Munger has produced (with Melvin Hinich) three books, Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Analytical Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (Kluwer Academic Press, 1998). His most recent book, Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices, was published in August 2000 by W.W. Norton. Current research interests include the evolution of the ideology of racism in the antebellum South, and a study of complexity in an experimental setting using human subjects.
Marcus Falcone
Marcos Falcone is the Project Manager of Fundación Libertad and a regular contributor to Forbes Argentina. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, National Review, and Reason, among others. He is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Richard Gunderman
Richard Gunderman is Chancellor’s Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University. He is also John A Campbell Professor of Radiology and in 2019-21 served as Bicentennial Professor.
He received his AB Summa Cum Laude from Wabash College; MD and PhD (Committee on Social Thought) with honors from the University of Chicago; and MPH from Indiana University. He was a Chancellor Scholar of the Federal Republic of Germany and received honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from Garrett Theological Seminary at Northwestern University and Wabash College.
Sandra J. Peart
Sandra Peart is professor of economics at Baldwin-Wallace College and Director of the Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics at George Mason University. She is a Fellow for the American Council on Education in 2005-06. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1982 and 1989. Her dissertation on the economics of W. S. Jevons was awarded the Best Dissertation Prize by the History of Economics Society. She taught at the University of Toronto and the College of William and Mary before coming to Baldwin-Wallace in 1991. She has published articles on Utilitarianism, the methodology of J. S. Mill, rationality and intertemporal choice, and the transition to neoclassicism, in journals such as the Manchester School, the Canadian Journal of Economics, HOPE and JHET. In 1998, with Evelyn L. Forget, she organized a conference supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada celebrating the work of Samuel Hollander. With Forget, she edited the conference volume (Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics, Routledge 2001). She serves on the Executive Committee of the History of Economics Society, and is working with David Levy on visual representations of human heterogeneity.
Morgan Rose
Morgan Rose is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Washington University in St. Louis, with research interests in industrial organization, corporate governance
and economic history. He received an M.A. in economics from both Washington University and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to attending Washington University, he served as a senior analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He wrote for the Econlib Teacher’s Corner series while serving as Editorial Assistant.