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Education:
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1992
M.S., Florida State University, 1991
B.S., Ohio University, 1988
Areas of Expertise:
Economic Freedom
Public Finance
Economic Growth & Development
Professional Activities:
Dr. Lawson is the co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World annual report which provides an economic freedom index for over 140 countries. Lawson has numerous professional publications in journals such as Public Choice, Cato Journal, Kyklos, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and European Journal of Political Economy. He has served as president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He blogs regularly at www.divisionoflabour.com. He earned his B.S. in economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University. Previously he taught at Capital University, where he held the George H. Moor Chair, and at Shawnee State University. His hobbies include marathons, ultra-marathons, and mountaineering.
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