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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Steven G. Horwitz John H. Schnatter Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise Department of Economics Miller College of Business Ball State University Muncie IN 47306 765-285-5384 [email protected] HOME ADDRESS: 13045 New Britton Drive Fishers, IN 46038 (315) 323-6784 EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1990 George Mason University. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. M.A. 1987 George Mason University. Master of Arts in Economics. A.B. 1985 The University of Michigan. “With distinction” in Economics and Philosophy. ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE: 8/17 - Department of Economics, Miller College of Business, Ball State University John H. Schnatter Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise. Affiliated faculty with the John H. Schnatter Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. 8/16 – 5/17 John H. Schnatter Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, and Department of Economics, Ball State University Visiting Economist. 8/89 – 5/17 St. Lawrence University, Department of Economics. Professor Emeritus of Economics (5/17 - ) Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics (5/07 – 5/17) Department Chair (7/10 – 6/16) Professor of Economics (7/02 – 5/07) Associate Professor of Economics (9/95 – 6/02) Flora Irene Eggleston Faculty Chair (7/93 – 6/98) Assistant Professor and Dana Fellow (8/89 – 9/95) 1 7/07 – 9/07 Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University. Visiting Scholar. 5/01 – 7/07 St. Lawrence University, Associate Dean of the First Year. Responsible for all aspects of the University’s First-Year Program/First- Year Seminar academic programs. Worked in conjunction with the Director of Residential Life and the Student Life team to coordinate the residential portion of the program, including New Student Orientation. Specific responsibilities included faculty recruitment, development, and evaluation, curriculum development and evaluation, further integrating first year academic and student life, developing and administering budgets, and representing the FYP/FYS in University planning, external relations, and development. 7/03 – 6/04 St. Lawrence University, Interim Director, Center for Teaching and Learning. Responsible for the organization, execution and oversight of all programs sponsored under the auspices of the Center for Teaching and Learning, with the intent of advancing and responding to the professional dialogue on teaching and learning on campus; staying abreast of current teaching issues, pedagogical methods and innovations in higher education; and developing partnerships with academic departments and programs and instructional technology. Specific responsibilities included new faculty orientation and the faculty mentor program, allocating travel funds for pedagogy conferences and small grants for teaching innovations, and other administrative, budgetary, and supervisory activities. 9/88 – 6/89 George Mason University, Department of Economics. Acting Assistant Professor of Economics. PRIMARY FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION AND INTEREST: Monetary Theory and History, Macroeconomics, American Economic History, Economics of Gender and the Family, Austrian Economics. Other areas of interest include: The Social Thought of F. A. Hayek, Political Economy, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Public Choice, and the Evolution of Social Institutions. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Books: Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (ISBN 978-1137448224). Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective, New York: Routledge, 2000. (ISBN 0-415-19762-7, part of the series Foundations of the Market Process, edited by Lawrence H. White and Mario J. Rizzo). Co-winner of the 2001 Smith Prize in Austrian Economics for the best contribution to Austrian economics published in the 2 previous three years. Paperback edition (ISBN 978-0-415-56957-6) published in 2009. Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. (ISBN 0-8133-8514-8, part of the series Studies in the History, Methods, and Boundaries of Economics, edited by Axel Leijonhufvud and Donald McCloskey). Volumes Edited: Studies in Austrian Macroeconomics, Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 20, Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2016. Entangled Political Economy, Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 18, (with Roger Koppl) , Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2014. Experts and Epistemic Monopolies, Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 17, (with Roger Koppl and Laurent Dobuzinskis), Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2012. What’s So Austrian about Austrian Economics?, Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 14, (with Roger Koppl and Pierre Desrochers), Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2010. Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 4, (with Peter J. Boettke), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997. Monographs: ‘Of Human Action but not Human Design’: Liberalism in the Tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1999 Annual Frank P. Piskor Lecture, Canton, NY: St. Lawrence University, 2000. Peer-Reviewed Articles: “Inequality: First, Do No Harm” (with Vincent Geloso), The Independent Review, 22 (1), Summer 2017, pp. 121-34 (invited contribution). “Behavioural Economics: A Virginia Political Economy Perspective,” Economic Affairs, 36 (3), October 2016, pp. 273-81. “Monetary Policy under Bernanke: A Variation on a Redistributionist Theme,” Journal of Private Enterprise Education, 30 (4), Winter 2015, pp. 31-41 (symposium – invited contribution). “Cooperation over Coercion: The Importance of Unsupervised Childhood Play for Democracy and Liberalism,” Cosmos + Taxis, 3 (1), November 2015, pp. 3-16. Available at: https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/horwitz.pdf (invited contribution). 3 “Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 31 (2) Spring 2015, pp. 70-91 (invited contribution). “Alienation and Rationality – The Retreat of Postwar Socialism,” (with Petrik Runst), Review of Austrian Economics, 28 (2), June 2015, pp. 123-37. “Lady Pecunia at the Punching Office: Two Early Modern Poems About Coinage Crises” (with Sarah Skwire), Journal of Private Enterprise, 30 (1), Spring 2015, pp. 107-20. “The Dangers of Deflation,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 42 (2), June 2014, pp. 143-51 (invited contribution). “The Reality of the Wartime Economy: More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression,” (with Michael J. McPhillips), The Independent Review, 17 (3), Winter 2013, pp. 325-347. “How Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues Transformed and Humanized the Family,” Journal of Socio-Economics, 41, special issue on Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues, 2012, pp. 792-795 (invited contribution). “On Not Doing Due Diligence: Bagus and Howden on Free Banking” (with Anthony J. Evans), Review of Austrian Economics, 25 (2), 2012, pp. 149-157 (invited contribution). “Contrasting Concepts of Capital: Yet Another Look at the Hayek-Keynes Debate,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 27 (1), Fall 2011, pp. 9-27. “Austrian Economists and Liberal Arts Colleges as a Complementary Capital Combination,” Journal of Economic and Financial Education, 10 (2), Fall 2011, pp. 31- 40 (invited contribution). “A Jambalaya of Thoughts on Non-price Signals, Commercial Spaces, and Lessons Learned from Katrina,” (symposium on Emily Chamlee-Wright’s The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery), Studies in Emergent Order 4, 2011, pp. 78-86, http://docs.sieo.org/SIEO_4_2011_Horwitz.pdf (invited contribution). “Do We Need a Distinct Monetary Constitution?” (symposium in honor of James Buchanan), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 80 (2), October 2011, pp. 331-338 (invited contribution). “Theory, History, and the Great Recession,” Review of Austrian Economics, 24 (2), 2011, pp. 171-84 (invited contribution). 4 “Unfortunately Unfamiliar with Robert Higgs and Others: A Rejoinder to Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s,” Econ Journal Watch, 8 (1), January 2011, pp. 1-12, available at: http://econjwatch.org/file_download/475/HorwitzJanuary2011.pdf (invited contribution). “Kirznerian Entrepreneurship as a Misesian Solution to a Hayekian Problem,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 25 (2), Spring 2010, pp. 97-103 (invited comment). “Great Apprehensions, Prolonged Depression: Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s,” Econ Journal Watch, 6 (3), September 2009, pp. 313-36. Available at: https://econjwatch.org/file_download/8/ejw_com_sep09_horwitz.pdf (invited contribution). “Best Responders: Post-Katrina Innovation and Improvisation by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Coast Guard,” Innovations, 4 (2), Spring 2009, pp. 93-99 (invited contribution). “Wal-Mart to the Rescue: Private Enterprise’s Response to Hurricane Katrina,” The Independent Review, 13 (4), Spring 2009, pp. 511-28. “Is the Family a Spontaneous Order?” Studies in Emergent Order, 1, 2008, pp. 163-85, available at: https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/sieo_1_2008_horwitz.pdf (invited contribution). “Three Contemporary Economic Myths About Income and Material Well-Being,” educational note, Journal of Private Enterprise, 24 (1), Fall 2008, pp. 131-44 (invited contribution). “Monetary Calculation and the Extension of Social Cooperation into Anonymity,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 23 (2), Spring 2008, pp. 81-93. “Heterogeneous Human Capital, Uncertainty, and the Structure of Plans: A Market Process Approach to Marriage and Divorce” (with Peter Lewin), Review of Austrian Economics, 21 (1), March 2008, pp. 1-21. “The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics” (with Peter
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