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Steven Horwitz's CV September 2009 Steven Horwitz's CV September 2009 http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz/Vitae/cvlatest.htm CURRICULUM VITAE Steven G. Horwitz Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Department of Economics St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 TEL (315) 229-5731 FAX (315) 229-5819 EMAIL [email protected] WEB: http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz HOME ADDRESS: 126 Pike Road Canton, NY 13617 (315) 379-9737 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: 8/89 - St. Lawrence University, Department of Economics. Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics (5/07 - ) Professor of Economics (7/02 - ) Associate Professor of Economics (9/95 – 6/02). Flora Irene Eggleston Faculty Chair (7/93 – 6/98). Assistant Professor and Dana Fellow (8/89 - 8/95). 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. Work in conjunction with the Director of Residential Learning Communities and the Student Life team to coordinate the residential portion of the program, including New Student Orientation. Specific responsibilities include 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 1 of 19 11/25/09 12:27 PM Steven Horwitz's CV September 2009 http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz/Vitae/cvlatest.htm 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 include 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: Economics of Gender and the Family, Austrian Economics, the Social Thought of F. A. Hayek, and Political Economy. OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST: Monetary Theory and History, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, American Economic History, Macroeconomics, Public Choice, and the Evolution of Social Institutions. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: Books: 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 in the previous three years. 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: Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 4, (with Peter J. Boettke), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997. 2 of 19 11/25/09 12:27 PM Steven Horwitz's CV September 2009 http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz/Vitae/cvlatest.htm 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: “The Role of Ideal Types in Austrian Business Cycle Theory” (with Gene Callahan), Advances in Austrian Economics, 13, 2010, forthcoming (invited contribution). “I’m not a ‘Neuro-Hayekian,’ I’m a Subjectivist,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 12, 2010, forthcoming (invited reply). “The Sensory Order and Organizational Learning,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 12, 2010, forthcoming (invited contribution). “Great Apprehensions, Prolonged Depression: Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s,” Econ Journal Watch, 6 (3), September 2009: 313-36 (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 (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). “Analogous Models of Complexity: The Austrian Theory of Capital and Hayek's Theory of Cognition as Adaptive Classifying Systems,”Explorations in Austrian Economics, Roger Koppl, ed., volume 11 of Advances in Austrian Economics, 2008, pp. 143-66 (invited contribution). “Monetary Calculation and the Extension of Social Cooperation into Anonymity,” Journal of Private Enterprise Education, 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 J. Boettke), History of Political Economy, 37 (1), annual conference volume supplement, 2005, pp. 10-39 (invited contribution). 3 of 19 11/25/09 12:27 PM Steven Horwitz's CV September 2009 http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz/Vitae/cvlatest.htm “The Functions of the Family in the Great Society,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29 (5), September 2005, pp. 669-84. “Two Worlds at Once: Rand, Hayek, and the Ethics of the Micro and Macro-cosmos,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 6 (2), Spring 2005, pp. 375-403 (invited contribution as part of a symposium on “Ayn Rand Among the Austrians”). “Monetary Calculation and the Unintended Extended Order: The Misesian Microfoundations of the Hayekian Great Society,” Review of Austrian Economics, 17 (4), December 2004, pp. 307-21. “Money and the Interpretive Turn: Some Considerations,” Symposium, 8 (2), Summer 2004, pp. 249-66 (invited contribution for a special issue in honor of G. B. Madison). “Rand, Rush, and De-totalizing the Utopianism of Progressive Rock,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 5 (1), Fall 2003, pp. 161-72 (invited contribution). “The Costs of Inflation Revisited,” Review of Austrian Economics, 16 (1), March 2003, pp. 77-95. “Comment on Boettke & Subrick and Faulkner,” (symposium on John Searle's philosophy and economics) Journal of Economic Methodology, 9 (1), March 2002, pp. 81-86 (invited comment). “Entrepreneurship, Exogenous Change, and the Flexibility of Capital,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 12 (1), March 2002, pp. 67-77 (invited submission for an issue in honor of Israel Kirzner). “From Smith to Menger to Hayek: Liberalism in the Spontaneous Order Tradition,” The Independent Review, 6 (1), Summer 2001, pp 81-97. Reprinted in The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today, Robert Higgs and Carl Close, eds., Oakland: Independent Institute, 2006. “From The Sensory Order to the Liberal Order: Hayek's Non-rationalist Liberalism,” Review of Austrian Economics, 13 (1), March 2000, pp. 23-40. “Keynes and Capitalism One More Time: A Further Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, 12 (1/2), Winter-Spring 1998, pp. 95-111 (invited reply). “Monetary Calculation and Mises's Critique of Planning,” History of Political Economy, 30 (3), Fall 1998, pp. 427-50. “Labor Market Coordination and Monetary Equilibrium: W. H. Hutt's Place in 'Pre-Keynesian' Macro,” Journal of Labor Research, 18 (2), Spring 1997, pp. 205-26 (invited submission). “Reply to Cottrell,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18 (2), Fall 1996, pp. 314-318. 4 of 19 11/25/09 12:27 PM Steven Horwitz's CV September 2009 http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz/Vitae/cvlatest.htm “Capital Theory, Inflation, and Deflation: The Austrians and Monetary Disequilibrium Theory Compared,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18 (2), Fall 1996, pp.287-308. Reprinted in The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, Vol III: Economics, Peter J. Boettke, ed., Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2000. “Keynes on Capitalism: Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, 10 (3), Summer 1996, pp. 353-72 (invited submission). “Money, Money Prices, and the Socialist Calculation Debate,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 3, 1996, pp. 59-77. Reprinted in Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, Vol. IX, Peter J. Boettke, ed., New York: Routledge, 2000. “Feminist Economics: An Austrian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 2 (2), December 1995, pp. 259-279. “A Property Rights Approach to Free Banking,” (with Howard Bodenhorn), Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 5 (4), December 1994, pp. 505-519. “Systemic
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