Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, Ohio State University 1974
• M.A., Economics, Ohio State University 1972
• B.S., Economics, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968

Teaching Interests:

• Public Choice
• Monetary Economics
• Macroeconomics

Activities and Honors:

• Fulbright Professor, University of Split, Split, Croatia, 2002
• Who's Who in America, 2001
• Fulbright Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 1994
• Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 1992
• Fulbright Professor, Nankai University, People's Republic of China, 1985-86
• National Science Foundation Grant
• Visiting Staff Economist, Federal Trade Commission , 1984-85
• National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1978-79
• Director, Conference on Austrian Economics, University of Delaware
• Member, Public Choice Society

Recent Publications:

• "A Rejoinder to 'A commentary on "Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?"' Public Choice, forthcoming.
• “Do Fixed Exchange Rates Fetter Monetary Policy?  A Credit View,” (with Russell Settle)  Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 2007.
• "How Richard Nixon Pressured Arthur Burns: Evidence From the Nixon Tapes," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 4, Fall 2006.
• "Does the Fed Contribute to the Political Business Cycle?" Public Choice" (with Plamen Iossifov) Public Choice, pp 249-262, Fall 2006.
• Return to Animal Farm,  Turkish language edition, 2006.
• “Campaign Finance Reform: A Public Choice Perspective,” (with Russell Settle) Public Choice, Sept. 2004 .
• Burton Abrams (with Plamen Yossifov ). “The importance of property rights for economic outcomes: Lessons from the transfer of productive assets from collective to private ownership in Bulgarian agriculture,”  Proceedings of Enterprise in Transition (Fifth international conference), 2003, pp. 49-51, 2003.