William F. Shughart II explained

William F. Shughart II
Birth Date:3 December 1947
Birth Place:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Education:B.A. in Economics
M.S. in Economics
Ph.D in Economics
Alma Mater:Texas A&M University
J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice

William Franklin Shughart II is an American economist who is the J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.[1] He is research director and senior fellow at The Independent Institute. He is the editor-in-chief of Public Choice,[2] senior associate editor of the Southern Economic Journal and associate editor of the Independent Review.[3]

Education

Shughart completed his B.A. in Economics in 1969 followed by M.S. in Economics in 1970 from Texas A&M University. In 1973, as part of his military service, he worked as a courier for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as a systems analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (now CNA Corp.). After his honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University.[4] [5]

Career

Right after completing his Ph.D., Shughart taught at the University of Arizona in 1978-1979. He then worked at the Federal Trade Commission as a staff economist. In 1982, he left his position as the special assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission to join Clemson University as an assistant professor.[6]

Shughart left Clemson University in 1985 and joined George Mason University as an associate professor of economics and a research associate at the Center for Study of Public Choice. Three years later, he left George Mason University and started teaching at the University of Mississippi.[7] At the University of Mississippi, he was appointed to the P.M.B. Self, William King Self and Henry C. Self Free Enterprise Chair.[8] In 1998, he was named an F.A.P Barnard Distinguished Professor and held a Robert M. Hearin Chair at the University of Mississippi.[9]

In 2011, Shughart became professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi and was appointed as J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.[10]

Shughart has served the Southern Economic Association for most of his academic career, being a rank-and-file member and board member for many years before becoming the President of the Association for the 2009 term.[11] He also serves as the senior associate editor of the Southern Economic Journal since 2012.[12] In 2013, he was appointed as an associate editor of The Independent Review and as the research director of The Independent Institute.

Work

Shughart has authored ten books. He has contributed chapters to 65 books and has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has written columns in outlets such as Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Detroit News, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Times, Fortune,[13] Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily,[14] and National Post.[15] Shughart has been a long-term collaborator with the late Robert Tollison, with whom he has published over 60 articles over the span of his career.[16]

A lot of Shughart's work has been focused on industrial organization, also the subject of his first textbook, entitled The Organization of Industry published in 1990. Aside from industrial organization much of his work in 1980s and 1990s has been focused on tax policy, education reform and college sports. His second book, Antitrust Policy and Interest-Group Politics also was published in 1990.[17]

In 1997, Shughart edited the book Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination for which he won the 1998 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. He co-authored the 1998 book, The Political Economy of the New Deal with the late Jim Couch, one of his University of Mississippi doctoral students.

In the late 2000s, energy policy also become a recurring topic in his research.[18] [19]

Awards and honors

Books

Selected papers

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Top Economist Now at USU. The Huntsman Post.
  2. Web site: Public Choice. Public Finance.
  3. Web site: William F. Shughart II: The Independent Institute. Independent Institute.
  4. Web site: William F. Shughart. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.
  5. Web site: Distinguished Economics Professor to be Installed As President-Elect of Southern Economics Assn. The University of Mississippi - College of Liberal Arts.
  6. Web site: Full Text of Shughart William CV.
  7. Web site: How About Giving Degree in Football?. The Morning Call. Terry. Larimer. 1991-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20190526093603/https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-10-30-2829554-story.html. 2019-05-26. live .
  8. Web site: William Franklin Shughart. The University of Mississippi.
  9. Journal of Policy History. 2003 . 15 . 3 . c3 . Journal of Policy History. 10.1353/jph.2003.0018 .
  10. Web site: Bill Shughart, First J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.
  11. Web site: Past Southern Economic Association Presidents. Southern Economic Association.
  12. Web site: Editorial Board. Wiley Online Library.
  13. Web site: How Banning Plastic Straws Could Make Pollution Even Worse . Fortune.
  14. Web site: IRS Scandal Is Nothing New — It's Always Been A Political Weapon . 23 May 2013 . Investor's Business Daily.
  15. Web site: Bill Shughart, First J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.
  16. Web site: Robert D. Tollison - In Memoriam. Independent Institute.
  17. Web site: Antitrust Skeptic's Bibliography. Competitive Enterprise Institute.
  18. Web site: America's Increasingly Fragile Electric Grid - William F. Shughart II. 14 December 2018. Energy Central.
  19. Web site: Oil And 911 - The Connection. History News Network.
  20. Web site: William Franklin Shughart. The University of Mississippi.
  21. Web site: Top Economist Now at USU. Constant Contact.

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