Donald J. Boudreaux
Dr. Donald J. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Auburn University and his law degree from the University of Virginia. Dr. Boudreaux was president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 1997 to 2001 before he was appointed chairman of George Mason University’s Department of Economics, where he served from 2001 to 2009.
Dr. Boudreaux’s research covers the spectrum of economics and international trade. He is convinced that no amount of planning by economic masterminds is capable of solving today’s economic puzzles. Instead, individual choice, when given the opportunity, allows each piece of the puzzle to find its own place in the most efficient manner possible. He has given lectures in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe on a wide variety of topics, including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade.
Dr. Boudreaux’s work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, The Journal of Commerce, and several scholarly journals including the Supreme Court Economic Review. He is the author of the book, Globalization (Greenwood Press), as well as Half Wits and Hypocrites (Free to Choose Press). He has lectured at dozens of seminars including several sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission. He has discussed economic and political questions on television shows such as CNBC’s “Kudlow and Company” as well as Fox Business network’s “Freedom Watch.”
As a professor, Dr. Boudreaux enriches the academic catalog of George Mason University through undergraduate courses such as industrial organization, international economic policy, and legal environment of business. His graduate level courses include world industrial policy, public choice economics, and economics for lawyers.
But Dr. Boudreaux also believes that the message of public choice and the free market should be accessible to a wider, less academic audience and his dedication to vocalizing that message is unquestioned. He has given economics seminars to high school students throughout Northern Virginia and has co-hosted a PBS program on the global debt crisis that is scheduled to air in November. Boudreaux averages three radio interviews every week, writes one letter-to-the-editor daily, and keeps a regular blog with Dr. Russ Roberts called Café Hayek.