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Donald Boudreaux
Senior Education AdvisorChairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University
dboudrea@gmu.edu
Biography
Donald Boudreaux is the senior educational advisor to the Mercatus Center and chairman of the economics department at George Mason University. He was president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 1997 until this past summer. From 1992 until 1997 he was a professor of law and economics at Clemson University. He served on the economics faculty at George Mason University from 1985 through 1990.
During the Spring 1996 semester Dr. Boudreaux was a visiting fellow in law and economics at the Cornell Law School.
Dr. Boudreaux has lectured in both the United States and Europe on a wide variety of topics, including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade. He is published in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Regulation, Reason, The Freeman, The American Spectator, The Washington Times, The Journal of Commerce, the Cato Journal, and several scholarly journals such as the Supreme Court Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
Dr. Boudreaux earned his PhD in economics is from Auburn University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.
Articles, Commentary, and Publications
- Economics in Many Lessons
- Why restrict immigration at all? The Constitution and the laws of economics compel us to welcome all immigrants.
- Want world peace? Support free trade.
- Beware of Official Data on Inflation
- Calculating Real Wages




