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Adam G.

Martin
Department of Economics, MS 3G4
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030

amartini@gmu.edu
(214) 883-6795
www.adamgmartin.com

FIELDS OF INTEREST
• Austrian Economics
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Economic Development
• History of Economic Thought
• Philosophy of Economics
• Political Economy

EDUCATION

Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University, Spring 2008.

PhD Program, George Mason University, Economics. May 2005-present.


Fields: Austrian Economics, Constitutional and Institutional Economics

Master of Arts, George Mason University, Economics. 2007

Bachelor of Arts, University of Dallas, Economics and Theology, magna cum


laude. 2004

AWARDS & HONORS

H.B. Earhart Graduate Fellowship, 2008-9

Pass with Distinction, Constitutional and Institutional Economics field exam

Mercatus Center Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship 2007, 2008

Global Prosperity Initiative Cortopassi Graduate Fellow, Mercatus Center 2005-8

Richard E. Fox Essay Contest, Second Prize given for “Ceteris Paribus: Towards
an Essentialist Understanding,” Grove City College Austrian Student
Scholars Conference, 2005

Wall Street Journal Award, Outstanding Undergraduate in Economics, 2004

Omicron Delta Epsilon, 2003


PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

“Critical Realism and the Austrian Paradox,” Cambridge Journal of Economics,


forthcoming

“Emergent Politics and the Power of Ideas,” conditionally accepted for Studies in
Emergent Order

“Heterogeneity, Voting, and the Political Economy of Public Policy,” with Richard
E. Wagner, forthcoming in Public Finance and Management

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Mr. Knight Goes to New Orleans: Uncertainty in the Post-Katrina Big Easy,"
conditionally accepted to appear in After Katrina: The Political Economy of
Disaster and Community Rebound, eds. Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Henry
Storr.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Richard Wagner, Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance,
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.

WORKING PAPERS

“Where are the Big Bills? Institutions, Inefficiency, and Knowledge”

“Knight's Empiricist Epistemology”

“Not Without My Human Capital: Economic Freedom and the Brain Drain,” with
Diana Weinert

“Social Democracy vs. Global Justice: Answering Pogge's Challenge”

POSITIONS HELD

Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, Post-doctoral


Visiting Fellow. Spring 2009.

Foundation for Economic Education, Conference Director for “From Vienna to


Virginia,” held September 2008.
Duties: Conceived and organized the conference with FEE’s Programs
Director, including putting out a call for papers, recruiting senior scholars,
writing grant proposals, scheduling sessions, etc.
George Mason University, Instructor, ECON 385: International Economic
Policy, Summer 2008.
Duties: Designed, prepared and taught a course cross-listed in Global
Studies and Economics covering basic economics, development, and
foreign policy.

Mercatus Center, Research Assistant to Werner Troesken. 2007-8.


Duties: Compiled research for scholarly publications.

Mercatus Center, Research Assistant to Emily Chamlee-Wright. 2006


Duties: Research assistance on Global Prosperity Initiative's project, “Crisis
and Response in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina,” including ethnographic
field work conducting interviews.

Mercatus Center, Research Assistant to Peter Boettke. 2005, 2007


Duties: Compiled research for scholarly publications.

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, Economic Education Intern. 2002


Duties: Assisted with teaching introductory economics for Southern
Methodist University's Talented and Gifted summer program, helped with
conferences.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Emergent Politics and the Power of Ideas,” proposal accepted for


The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order: “Orders and Borders”
Portsmouth, NH. November 1-3, 2008.

“In Search of Inefficiency: Disentangling Subjectivism and Knowledge”


Foundation for Economic Education: “From Vienna to Virginia.”
Irvington, NY. Sept. 18-20, 2008.

“Resurrecting Traditionalism”
The Association of Private Enterprise Education: “APEE 2008 Annual Conference.”
Las Vegas, NV. April 7-9, 2008.

“In Search of Inefficiency: Disentangling Subjectivism and Knowledge”


Public Choice Society: “Public Choice Society 2008 Annual Conference.”
San Antonio, TX. Mar. 7-9, 2008.

"Mr. Knight Goes to New Orleans: Uncertainty in the Post-Katrina Big Easy"
Southern Economic Association: “SEA 2007 Annual Conference.”
New Orleans, LA. Nov. 18-20, 2007.

“Social Democracy vs. Global Justice: Answering Pogge's Challenge”


Grove City College: “Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2007.”
Grove City, PA. November 2-3, 2007.
"Amateur Public Choice and Regime Uncertainty in Post-Katrina New Orleans"
The Association of Private Enterprise Education: “APEE 2007 Annual Conference.”
Cancun, Mexico. April 8-10, 2007.

“Mises, Kirzner, and Knight on Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: A Synthesis”


The Mises Institute: “Austrian Scholars Conference 2007.”
Auburn, AL. March 15-17, 2007.

“Ceteris Paribus: Towards an Essentialist Understanding”


Grove City College: “Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2005.”
Grove City, PA. November 5-6, 2005.

“Say's Law: An Austrian Perspective”


Grove City College: “Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2004.”
Grove City, PA. November 3-4, 2004.

ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Liberty Fund: “Austrian versus Neoclassical Economics and the Case for Liberty”
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May 8-11, 2008.

International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics: “Experimental


Economics and Spontaneous Orders”
Arlington, VA. April 17-20, 2008.

Liberty Fund and the Institute for Humane Studies: “Liberty, Equality, and
Redistribution”
Arlington, VA. April 11-13, 2008.

Liberty Fund and the Acton Institute: “Exercising Power and Preserving Liberty:
Bertrand de Jouvenal on the Rule of Law and Limited Government.”
Grand Rapids, MI. August 3-6, 2006.

REFEREEING

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics


Review of Austrian Economics
REFERENCES

Peter Boettke
BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism and University Professor
George Mason University
Dissertation Advisor
4400 University Dr. MS 3G4
Fairfax, VA
(703) 993-1149
pboettke@gmu.edu

Peter Leeson
BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism
George Mason University
4400 University Dr. MS 3G4
Fairfax, VA
(703) 993-1124
pleeson@gmu.edu

Richard Wagner
Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics
Director of Graduate Studies
George Mason University
4400 University Dr. MS 3G4
Fairfax, VA
(703) 993-1132
rwagner@gmu.edu

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