SMITH, ADAM

Biography

He resides and works in the Charlotte, NC area, with more than ten years of experience as a full-time professor.  Adam has published peer-reviewed articles in Constitutional Political Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, European Journal of Political Economy, Social Choice & Welfare, and Public Choice, as well as popular pieces in Forbes, US News & World Report, Charlotte Business Journal, and Regulation magazine. He is also a visiting scholar with the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University, and co-author with Bruce Yandle of Bootleggers and Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics (Cato Press, 2014).

Adam earned his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University, and studied under Nobel Prize winners Vernon Smith and James Buchanan. He received his B.A. in Economics from Winthrop University.