Greetings, and welcome to my website. I am a Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. My first book, co-authored with Deirdre McCloskey and titled Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World, is available from Amazon and elsewhere. In addition, I am a Senior Fellow with […]
Art Carden: Economics Professor at Samford University
Greetings, and welcome to my website. I am a Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. My first book, co-authored with Deirdre McCloskey and titled Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World, is available from Amazon and elsewhere. In addition, I am a Senior Fellow with […]
I (Re-)Read Things: Beowulf to Buchanan
I’m cleaning out various “I write things” notes and stubs from my “drafts” folder and “WriteMe” list. These might not be recent reads. J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. I read this to my younger son last Fall. I’m not a Tolkien scholar or a Beowulf scholar, but this was a very interesting read […]
I (Re-)Read Things: Beowulf to Buchanan
I’m cleaning out various “I write things” notes and stubs from my “drafts” folder and “WriteMe” list. These might not be recent reads. J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. I read this to my younger son last Fall. I’m not a Tolkien scholar or a Beowulf scholar, but this was a very interesting read […]
Art Carden: Economics Professor at Samford University
Greetings, and welcome to my website. I am a Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. My first book, co-authored with Deirdre McCloskey and titled Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World, is available for preorder at Amazon and elsewhere. In addition, I am a […]
I Read Things, Or At Least Listen to Them on Long Road Trips
Thomas Sowell, Charter Schools and Their Enemies. I reviewed this for Regulation and Forbes.com. It’s not Sowell’s best work (here’s my guide to Sowell), but even Sowell’s worst work is better than a lot of people’s best work. That’s to say you should still familiarize yourself with it. Charters are an off-the-shelf education reform that […]
I Read Things, Or At Least Listen to Them on Long Road Trips
Thomas Sowell, Charter Schools and Their Enemies. I reviewed this for Regulation and Forbes.com. It’s not Sowell’s best work (here’s my guide to Sowell), but even Sowell’s worst work is better than a lot of people’s best work. That’s to say you should still familiarize yourself with it. Charters are an off-the-shelf education reform that […]
COVID-19 Diary, Day 1
I decided that I would keep a public diary during our time of “social distancing” when it seems like just about everything is shut down. What follows is a stream of possibly-connected but likely-disconnected thoughts. Everything, it seems, is closing–and slowly. Samford University has joined a lot of other schools in moving our classes online. […]
COVID-19 Diary, Day 1
I decided that I would keep a public diary during our time of “social distancing” when it seems like just about everything is shut down. What follows is a stream of possibly-connected but likely-disconnected thoughts. Everything, it seems, is closing–and slowly. Samford University has joined a lot of other schools in moving our classes online. […]
Research and Reviews
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Courtemanche, Charles, Art Carden, Murugi Ndirangu, and Xilin Zhou. 2019. Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security? Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 41(2):177-198. Magness, Phillip W., Art Carden, and Vincent Geloso. 2019. James M. Buchanan and the Political Economy of Desegregation. Southern Economic Journal 85(3):715-741. Jackson, Jeremy J., Ryan A. Compton, and Art Carden. 2015. […]