Current Research:

The impact of collegiate sports success on legislative appropriations

Selected Publications:

“Drive for Show and Putt for Dough? An Analysis of the Earnings of PGA Tour Golfers,” (with William Kern), Journal of Sports Economics, (February 2005): 46-60.

“The Economic Determinants of Professional Sports Franchise Values”, with Don Alexander. Journal of Sports Economics, Vol.5, February 2004.

“McCulloch, Scrope, and Hodgskin: Nineteenth-Century Versions of Julian Simon”, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol.25, September 2003.

“Classical Economic Man: Was He Interested in Keeping Up with the Joneses?” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol.23, 3, 2001.

Valuing the Consumption Benefits from Sports Franchises and Facilities" with D. Alexander and J. Neill, Journal of Urban Economics, 48, 2000.

The Economics of Sports: Winners and Losers, W.S. Kern, editor, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 2000.

"Maria Edgeworth and Classical Political Economy," CSWEP Newsletter, Winter, 1998.

"The Heterodox Economics of 'The Most Orthodox of Orthodox Economists': Frank H. Knight," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, July, 1997.

"Current Welfare Reform: A Return to the Principles of 1834," Journal of Economic Issues, June 1998.

"Frank H. Knight: Archetypical Conservative Economist," Modern Age, Spring 1993.

From Socialism to Market Economy: The Transition Problem, (ed.) W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1992.

"The End of Scarcity and the Art of Living: The Complementary Vision of Knight and Keynes", in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 1990, vol. 8, 1990.

"The Law of Matter and Energy Conservation in the History of Economic Thought," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Spring 1990.

"Frank Knight's Skeptical View of Economic Education", Journal of Economic Education, No. 2, Spring, 1990.

"Comment on W. Samuels 'Austrian and Institutional Economics: Some Common Elements' and P. Boettke 'Evolution and Economics': Austrians as Institutionalists" in "Symposium Issue on Austrian and Institutional Economics" in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 1989.

"The Lemon Principle, Democratic Politics, and Frank Knight's First Law of Talk", Public Choice, 1988.

"Frank Knight on Preachers and Economic Policy", American Journal of Economics and Sociology, January 1988.

"Frank Knight's Three Commandments", History of Political Economy, Winter 1987.

"On the Market as a Game: Hayek vs. Knight", Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 1985.

"Aristotle and the Problem of Insatiable Desires: A Reply," History of Political Economy, 1985.

"Returning to the Aristotelian Paradigm: Daly and Schumacher," History of Political Economy, 1983.