Adam Martin Texas Tech University Free Market Institute Box 45059 Lubbock, TX 79414 Phone: 806 834 1650 Email: adam.martin@ttu.edu Website: adamgmartin.com FULL-TIME ACADEMIC POSITIONS Texas Tech University, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Assistant Professor, 2014- King s College London, Political Economy, Lecturer. 2012-2014 New York University, Development Research Institute, Post-Doctoral Fellow. 2009-2011 Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy, Visiting Fellow. 2009 FIELDS OF INTEREST Political Economy: Comparative Economics, Economic Development, Public Choice Philosophy of Economics: Economic Methodology, History of Economic Thought EDUCATION PhD, George Mason University, Economics. 2009 Dissertation Chair: Peter J. Boettke Fields: Austrian Economics, Constitutional and Institutional Economics Master of Arts, George Mason University, Economics. 2007 Bachelor of Arts, University of Dallas, Economics, Theology, magna cum laude. 2004 ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE 2014- Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University, Political Economy Research Fellow 2013- Foundation for Economic Education, Board of Scholars 2011- Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University Humane Studies Fellowship Director 2011-2014 Faculty Mentor 2014-2011- The Fund for American Studies American Institute for Political and Economic Systems Faculty at Charles University, 2013- Capital Semester Faculty at Georgetown University, 2011-2012 2010- Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Carl Menger Prize Committee 2010- Executive Committee 2014-2016 FEE Prize Committee, 2010
2010- Mercatus Center, George Mason University, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Fellow 2012-2014 King s College London, Department of Political Economy Rationality, Choice, & Uncertainty Research Group Leader Research Committee Member 2010-2011 New York University, Department of Economics, Instructor. 2009-2011 New York University, Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes Visiting Fellow 2008 George Mason University, Department of Economics, Instructor 2008 Cambridge University, Social Ontology Group Visiting Scholar 2008 Foundation for Economic Education, Conference Director for From Vienna to Virginia 2005-2008 Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Global Prosperity Initiative Graduate Fellow 2002 Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, Economic Education Intern AWARDS, HONORS, AND GRANTS 2013 Gordon Tullock Prize for Best Paper in Public Choice by a Junior Scholar, Public Choice Society (with Diana Thomas) 2013 Friedman Fund for Teachers, Institute for Humane Studies 2011 Hayek Fund for Scholars Award, Institute for Humane Studies 2010 Hayek Fund for Scholars Award, Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Israel M. Kirzner Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Austrian Economics, George Mason University 2009 First Prize, Morality of Capitalism Essay Contest, Mercatus Center 2009 Summer Research Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Hayek Fund for Scholars Award, Institute for Humane Studies 2008 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Award Winner, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics 2008 H.B. Earhart Graduate Fellowship, Earhart Foundation 2008 Pass with Distinction, Constitutional/Institutional Economics Field Exam 2008 Mercatus Center Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship 2008 Hayek Fund for Scholars Award, Institute for Humane Studies 2007 Mercatus Center Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship 2005-2007 Global Prosperity Initiative Cortopassi Fellow, Mercatus Center 2005 Richard E. Fox Essay Contest, Second Prize, Grove City College 2004 Wall Street Journal Award, Outstanding Undergraduate in Economics 2004 Theology Award, Outstanding Undergraduate in Theology 2003 Omicron Delta Epsilon 2003 Phi Beta Kappa
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS Degenerate Cosmopolitanism, Social Philosophy and Policy, forthcoming Where are the Big Bills? Escaping the Endogenizer s Dilemma, The Review of Austrian Economics 2014: Vol. 27, No. 1, 81-95. Two-Tiered Political Entrepreneurship and the Congressional Committee System, with Diana Thomas, Public Choice 2013: Vol. 154, No. 1-2, 21-37. **Winner of the 2013 Gordon Tullock Prize for Best Paper in Public Choice by a Junior Scholar Discovering Rhetoric: The Ecology of Enterprise in the Bourgeois Era, Journal of Socio-Economics 2012: Vol. 41, No. 6, 757-762. Taking the G out of BIG: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on Basic Income, with Peter Boettke, Basic Income Studies 2012: Vol. 6, No. 2, 1-18. **Reprinted in Basic Income and the Free Market, 2013, ed. Guinevere Nell (Palgrave). Rational Choice Without Closure: The Microfoundations of Virtuous Cycles and Vicious Circles, Journal of Economic Methodology 2011: Vol. 18, No. 11, 345-361. Discovering the Gains from Trade: Alertness and the Extent of the Market, The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations 2011: Vol. 3, 65-85. The Catallactic Point of View, Studies in Emergent Order 2011: Vol. 4, 133-148. Austrian Economics: Methodology, Concepts, and Implications for Economic Education, with Joshua Hall, Journal of Economics and Finance Education 2011: Vol. 10, No. 2, 4-18. Emergent Politics and the Power of Ideas, Studies in Emergent Order 2010: Vol. 3, 212-245. Critical Realism and the Austrian Paradox, Cambridge Journal of Economics 2009: Vol. 33, 517-31. Heterogeneity, Voting, and Public Policy, with Richard Wagner, Public Finance and Management 2009: Vol. 9, No. 3, 393-415. BOOK CHAPTERS Austrian Methodology: A Review and Synthesis, conditionally accepted for the Oxford Handbook on Austrian Economics, forthcoming, eds. Peter Boettke and Christopher Coyne (Oxford University Press).
Error is Obvious, Coordination is the Puzzle, with Peter Boettke and Zachary Caceres, in Hayek and Behavioral Economics, 2013, eds. Roger Frantz and Robert Leeson (Palgrave). "Mr. Knight Goes to New Orleans: Uncertainty in the Post-Katrina Big Easy," in After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and Community Rebound, 2010, eds. Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Henry Storr (Edward Elgar). BOOK REVIEWS, SHORTER PIECES, AND INVITED ARTICLES Review of F.A. Hayek, Business Cycles, Australian Economic History Review, forthcoming From Vienna to Virginia: Exchange, Rules, and Social Cooperation with Geoffrey Lea, Review of Austrian Economics 2014: Vol. 27, No. 1, 1-9. Review of Richard Wagner, Deficits, Debt, and Democracy: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons, Public Choice 2014: Vol. 159, No. 1-2, 301-303. The Good, The Bad, and The Charitable, Conversations in Philanthropy 2012: Vol. 9. The Analects of Boettke, Journal of Private Enterprise 2010: Vol. 26, No. 1, 125-142. PhD Thesis Summary: The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economics, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics 2009: Vol. 2, No. 1, 157-60. Review of Arjo Klamer, Speaking of Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 70 (2009), 436-438. Review of Richard Wagner, Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 12, No. 1 (2009), 88-94. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting 2014 Punishment, Proportionality, and Knowledge Problems (with Daniel D Amico) 2013 Running the Constructivist Obstacle Course (panel) 2011 Hazlitt on the Illusions of Aid Yesterday and Today (panel) 2011 An Austrian Perspective on Deirdre McCloskey s Bourgeois Dignity (panel) 2011 Does Statehood Cause Development? (with Claudia Williamson) 2010 Hayek on Economic Development (panel) 2010 The Analects of Boettke 2009 The Case for Acquittal: Answering Pogge s Challenge 2008 The Old Comparative Economics
2008 Mr. Knight Goes to New Orleans: Uncertainty in the Post-Katrina Big Easy Colloquium on Market Institution and Economics Processes, New York University 2010 Two-Tiered Political Entrepreneurship and the Congressional Committee System Foundation for Economic Education, From Vienna to Virginia 2008 Where Are the Big Bills? Escaping the Endogenizer s Dilemma Public Choice Society Annual Meeting 2013 The Microfoundations of Regime Uncertainty 2012 The Treason of Rules (with Diana Thomas) 2010 Two-Tiered Political Entrepreneurship and the Congressional Committee System 2008 Where Are the Big Bills? Escaping the Endogenizer s Dilemma Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting 2013 The Microfoundations of Regime Uncertainty 2012 Some Questions for Tomasi on Social Justice (panel) 2012 Toward a Reconstruction of Rothbardian Political Economy (panel) 2011 Does Statehood Cause Development? (with Claudia Williamson) 2010 The Treason of Rules (with Diana Thomas) 2009 Amity and the Extent of the Market (with Diana Thomas) 2008 Critical Realism and the Austrian Paradox 2008 Emergent Politics and the Power of Ideas 2007 Mr. Knight Goes to New Orleans: Uncertainty in the Post-Katrina Big Easy The Philanthropic Enterprise, Philanthropy and the Economic Way of Thinking 2014 Poverty Alleviation as an Economic Problem (with Matias Petersen) INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics 2008 Experimental Economics and Spontaneous Orders Liberty Fund 2014 International Justice, Sovereignty, and Liberty (paper conference) 2014 Liberty from Locke to Hayek (co-discussion leader, co-sponsored with TFAS) 2012 Economy, Culture, and the Historical Origins of Capitalism 2009 Hayek s Contribution to Liberty 2009 The State as the Protector or Enemy of Liberty (co-sponsored with IHS) 2008 Austrian vs. Neoclassical Economics and the Case for Liberty 2008 Liberty, Equality, and Redistribution (co-sponsored with IHS) 2006 Exercising Power and Preserving Liberty: Bertrand de Jouvenal on the Rule of Law and Limited Government (co-sponsored with the Acton Institute) Mercatus Center, George Mason University 2014 Applied Research in the PPE Framework
2011 Don Lavoie s Writings in Economic Theory and Methodology The Freedom Center, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy 2010 Current Research Workshop on Carmen Pavel s Divided Sovereignty The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders 2011 Annual Conference: Coping with Tensions 2009 Peter Berger: Intermediate Institutions and Spontaneous Sociability 2008 Annual Conference: Orders and Borders The Philanthropic Enterprise 2014 Prosperity, Pauperism, and Philanthropy INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Adam Smith Institute 2013 Liberty Lectures, Myths of Economic Development and Foreign Aid 2012 Milton Friedman Centenary, Cooperation Without Borders Beloit College 2011 Economics Club, Discovering the Gains from Trade Cambridge University Libertarian Society 2014 Uncertainty and Imagination in Political Economy Murray Rothbard Institute 2013 Rothbard Summer University, Liberal Archive in Ghent, Belgium, 3 lectures F.A. Hayek Foundation and Foundation for Teaching Economics 2013 Summer School of Economics, Levice, Slovakia, 6 lectures Institute for Economic Affairs 2014 Freedom Week (with Adam Smith Institute), Myths of Economic Development Institute for Humane Studies 2014 Research Colloquium, 1 lecture 2013 Career Development Seminar, King s College London, 1 lecture 2013 Freedom Renewed: Libertarian Visionaries, Chapman University, 4 lectures 2012 Weekend Exploring Liberty, College of Charleston, 3 lectures 2012 Weekend Exploring Liberty, St. Edward s University, 3 lectures 2011 Liberty and Current Issues, Towson University, 4 lectures 2011 Liberty and Leviathan, Wake Forest University, 4 lectures Institute for Liberal Studies and University of Toronto International Relations Society 2012 Myths of Economic Development and Foreign Aid
Liberty Seminars, Slovenia 2012 Liberty Academy and Liberty Camp, 4 lectures London School of Economics 2013 Student Union Conference, Uncertainty and Imagination in Political Economy Loyola University New Orleans 2013 Economics Club, Robust Political Economy 2011 Economics Club, Discovering the Gains from Trade Mississippi State University 2013 Economics Lecture Series, Robust Political Economy Students for Liberty 2014 Austin Regional Conference, Public Choice 2011 Webinar on Democracy in Deficit The Fund for American Studies 2012 TFAS Public Policy Fellows, 5 Myths of Foreign Aid and Development 2012 TFAS Annual Conference, The New Paternalism U.K. Liberty League 2014 Essex Regional Conference, Robust Political Economy 2011 Annual Conference, Austrian side in Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics University of Maryland Baltimore County 2011 Freshman Honors Seminar, Entrepreneurship: An Austrian Perspective REFEREEING Advances in Austrian Economics, The Economic History Review, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Journal of Private Enterprise, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, Studies in Emergent Order TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate: Economics and Public Policy Issues, Georgetown University, Econ 219 Ethics and Economics, New York University, Econ 207 Fundamentals of Agricultural and Applied Economics (Micro Principles), AAEC 2305 Globalization and International Trade, King s College London, 4SSP106 International Economic Policy, George Mason University, Econ 385 Political Economy: Advanced Analysis, King s College London, 6SSPP304 (co-taught)
Politics and Economics of the Free Society, Charles University, JMM570 (co-taught) Graduate: Ethics and Economics, King s College London, 7SSPP105 Key Concepts in Contemporary Political Economy, 7SSPP101 (co-taught) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association of Private Enterprise Education, Public Choice Society, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Southern Economic Association, World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research