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Alexander Tabarrok
Bartley J. Madden Chair in EconomicsAssociate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
tabarrok@gmu.edu
Biography
Alexander Tabarrok is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, a scholar with the Mercatus Center, and research director for The Independent Institute. His recent research work in empirical law and economics examines issues such as how race and poverty affect trial decisions by juries, how judges compare to juries when awarding damages, the influence of judicial electoral systems on the decisions of judges, and how bounty hunters compare with police in arresting fugitives from the law. Other research examines patent system reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Tabarrok is coauthor of the Web site, FDAreview.org, and extensive resource on the history, policies, and potential reform of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is also coauthor of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution.
Dr. Tabarrok has edited several books, including: Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science (Oxford University Press), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with David Beito and Peter Gordon, University of Michigan Press), and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime. In addition, Dr. Tabarrok has contributed chapters to numerous other books and is the author of the monograph An Analysis of Proposals for Constitutional Change in New Zealand.
Dr. Tabarrok's papers have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals.
Dr. Tabarrok is the recipient of the Snavely Award, and he has been an Earhart Foundation Fellow and George A. and Frances Ball Foundation Fellow. Articles by Dr. Tabarrok have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the United States.
Dr. Tabarrok earned a BA from the University of Victoria and a PhD from George Mason University.
