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Randall G. Holcombe

Randall G. Holcombe is Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, past President of the Public Choice Society, and past President of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech, and has taught at Texas A&M University and Auburn University. Dr. Holcombe is also Senior Fellow at the James Madison Institute and was a member of the Florida Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Dr. Holcombe is the author of twelve books, a contributing author to forty volumes and the author of more than 100 articles in academic and professional journals. Among his books are The Economic Foundations of Government, Public Policy and the Quality of Life, Smarter Growth (ed. with S. Staley), From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government, Writing Off Ideas, Public Sector Economics, Public Finance and the Political Process, and Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress. His primary areas of research are public finance and the economic analysis of public policy issues.

Books
Housing America 2009
Making Poor Nations Rich 2007
The Voluntary City 2002
Writing Off Ideas 2000
Taxing Choice 1997
The Independent Review
Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It Fall 2009
Should We Have Acted Thirty Years Ago to Prevent Climate Change? Fall 2006
Is Government Inevitable? Reply to Leeson and Stringham Spring 2005
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Commentary
Put an End to Maximum-Wage Foolishness November 5, 2009
Year After TARP: $700 Billion Down the Drain October 2, 2009
Transforming America: The Bush-Obama Stimulus Programs September 10, 2009
Is There Charity After Death? February 28, 2001
Foundation Funding in the Marketplace for Ideas May 24, 2000
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Research Articles
Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal September 1, 1997



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