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 […]
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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 […]
I Read Things: Public Choice, Racism, and Political Capitalism
Anton D. Lowenberg and William H. Kaempfer, The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis. This is an important study that I’m embarrassed to say I wasn’t familiar with it until recently. Randall G. Holcombe, Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power is Made and Maintained. Political capitalism, Holcombe argues, is […]
I Read Things: Public Choice, Racism, and Political Capitalism
Anton D. Lowenberg and William H. Kaempfer, The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis. This is an important study that I’m embarrassed to say I wasn’t familiar with it until recently. Randall G. Holcombe, Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power is Made and Maintained. Political capitalism, Holcombe argues, is […]
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 […]