William F. Shughart II
Senior Fellow
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William F. Shughart II is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and the Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi. A former economist at the Federal Trade Commission, Professor Shughart received his Ph.D. in economics from Texas A & M University, and he has taught at George Mason University, Clemson University, and the University of Arizona.
Professor Shughart is Editor in Chief of Public Choice, past President of the Public Choice Society, President-elect of the Southern Economic Association, Associate Editor of the Southern Economic Journal, and Book Review Editor for Managerial and Decision Economics. His books include Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination; The Elgar Companion to Public Choice: The Organization of Industry; Antitrust Policy and Interest-Group Politics, Modern Managerial Economics (with W. Chappell and R. Cottle); Policy Challenges and Political Responses: Public Choice Perspectives on the Post-9/11 World (with R. Tollison); The Political Economy of the New Deal (with J. Couch); The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust (ed. with F. McChesney); and The Economics of Budget Deficits (with C. Rowley and R. Tollison).
A contributor to numerous other books, Professor Shughart is the author of more than 100 articles for scholarly journals and his popular articles have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Oklahoman, San Francisco Chronicle, Investor’s Business Daily, San Jose Mercury News, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner, Kansas City Star, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times, Detroit Free Press, Clarion-Ledger, Vision Hispana, National Post, Providence Journal, and many other publications.
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