Prolific Professor
- October 4, 2010
Art Carden, assistant professor of economics and business, has been frequenting the electronic and print media as well as the lecture circuit lately.
He now has a weekly column, “The Economic Imagination,” on forbes.com, and has co-authored two papers: “When is Corruption a Substitute for Economic Freedom?” with Lisa Verdon, assistant professor of economics at the College of Wooster, published in the Law and Development Review; and “Human Rights and Economic Liberalization” with Robert A. Lawson, associate professor of finance at Auburn University, published in Business and Politics. A paper on Walmart Supercenters and obesity, with Charles Courtemanche, assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, was recently accepted by the Journal of Urban Economics. In addition, Carden recently agreed to join the editorial board of the new Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.
On the lecture circuit, on Oct. 8, Carden will present his Curb Institute-supported project on the Memphis Riots of 1866 at the seventh annual Mises Seminar in Sestri Levante, Italy. The seminar, sponsored by the Instituto Bruno Leoni, deals with the May 1-3, 1866, race riots during Reconstruction. Carden will give public lectures on the economic effects of Walmart at the Metropolitan State College of Denver on Oct. 19, and at the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at Cal State-East Bay Nov. 10.
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