Vita 

JAMES PATRICK GUNNING (March 23, 2003)

Address:

Department of Economics
Feng Chia University
100, Wenhwa Road
Seatwen
Taichung, Taiwan 407
R.O.C.
Email: gunning@fcu.edu.tw
Alternate email: pgunningp@netscape.net
Date of Birth: December 13, 1942
Married, one grown child

Teaching and Research Fields

Economic Theory
Political Economy -- Public Choice
History of Economic Thought
Austrian Economics
Economics of Crime and Law

Doctoral Dissertation

An Economic Approach to Social Interaction and Institutions

Honors

Fellowship to Monetary Policy Seminar, sponsored by the Lehrman Institute (1980)
Fellowship to Seminar on Austrian Economics, sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies (1976)
Fellowship to Seminar on Property Rights, sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies (1972)

Education

B.A., University of Delaware, Economics, 1965
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & SU, Economics, 1974

University and College Experience

Professor of Economics, American University of Sharjah
Professor of Economics, Sultan Qaboos University (1998-2000)
Professor of Public Finance, National Chung Hsing University, Taipei (1992-1998)
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (1991-1992)
Associate Professor of Economics, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Papua New Guinea (1990-1991)
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio University (1989-1990)
Visiting Associate Professor of Justice Law and Society, American University (1988-1989)
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Central Florida (1986-1987)
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Rollins College (1985-1986)
Temporary Associate Professor of Economics, Villanova University (1984-1985)
Visiting Lecturer in Economics, University of Delaware (1983-1984)
Associate Professor of Economics, Texas Wesleyan College (1981-1983)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Albany State College (1980-1981)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbus College (1978-1980)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Missouri Western State College (1977-1978)
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, Kansas City (1976-1977)
Assistant Professor of Community Development, The Pennsylvania State University, (1974-76)

Courses Taught

Web Pages of Most Recently Taught Courses and Other Teaching Materials

Micro and Macro Economic Theory (at all levels), Modern Political Economy, Public Finance, History of Economic Thought, International Trade, Austrian Economics, Public Choice, Law and Economics, Economics of Crime, Political Economy of Crime and Law, Government and Business, Industrial Organization, Money and Banking, Economics of Property Rights, Law and Economics, History of Public Finance, Managerial Economics, Health Economics, Comparative Economic Systems, Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance, Statistics, Intro to Administration of Justice, Problems of Justice, Philosophy of Law, Criminology, Concepts of Justice, Justice and Morality, Criminal Behavior, Intro to Community Development, Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Political Economy of Community Development, Dimensions of Community Systems and Change, Introduction to Sociology.

Most Recent Teaching Evaluations

Publications

Many of these are on my web pages .

"The Praxeological Concept of International Entrepreneurship" in Leo Dana (ed.) Edward Elgar Handbook on Research in International Entrepreneurship. Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar.(forthcoming)
"How to Be a Value Free Advocate of Laissez Faire: Ludwig von Mises's Solution," American Journal of Economics and Sociology. (forthcoming)
"Did Mises Err? Was He a Utilitarian?: Reply to Block." American Journal of Economics and Sociology. (forthcoming)
"New Subjectivist Economic Theory and Public Finance." Public Finance and Management. 2001. (forthcoming)
"What Should We Do About Taiwan." Commentaries on Law and Public Policy.2001. (forthcoming)
"Wise Central Planning?: The Chinese on Taiwan." Commentaries on Law and Economics. 2001. (forthcoming)
"Ronald Coase's Method of Building More Realistic Models of Choice." Review of Political Economy. 2001 (forthcoming with Bingyuang Hsiung )
Zrozumie Demokracj: Wprowadzenie do Teorii Wyboru Publicznego. Warsaw: Wysza Szkola
Bankowoci, Finansw I Zarzdzania. 2001. (Polish version of Understanding Democracy: An
Introduction to Public Choice).
"The Property System in Austrian Economics." Review of Austrian Economics. 13:2 , 2000: 179-195.
"Roy Cordato's 'Austrian' Critique of Coase on Social Cost." Review of Austrian Economics. 13:2, 2000: 214-223.
"Herbert J. Davenport's Loan Fund Theory of Capital," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Fall, 1998.
"Herbert J. Davenport's Transformation of the Austrian Theory of Value and Cost," Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, Volume Fourteen, London: Routledge 1998.
"Herbert Davenport on the Single Tax," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, volume 56, #4, 1997.
"Ludwig von Mises's Transformation of the Austrian Theory of Value and Cost," History of Economics Review, No. 26 Winter-Summer, 1997.
"The Theory of Entrepreneurship in Austrian Economics,"in Keizer, W., Tieben B. and R. Van Zijp (eds.), Austrians in Debate, London, Routledge, 1997.
The Failure of the New Subjectivist Revolution: A Critical Essay on the Economic Theory of Ludwig von Mises's, Fort Myers, Fl. and Taipei, Taiwan: Nomad Press, 1994.
"Entrepreneurists and Firmists: Knight vs. the Modern Theory of the Firm," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, March, 1993.
"The New Subjectivist Elucidation of Entrepreneurship," Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Change, Vol. 1, No. 3, September, 1992.
"The Meaning of Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory: Historical Perspective," Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Change, Vol. 1, No. 2, June, 1992.
"The Meaning of Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory" in Oliga, J. C. and B. K. Tan (eds.)Proceedings of the ENDEC World Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovative Change, Nanyang Technological University, Peat Marwick Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Singapore, 1991, pp. 128-135.
"Praxeology, Economics, and Ethical Philosophy," in Ebeling, Richard M. (ed.), Austrian Economics: Perspectives on the Past and Prospects for the Future, Hillsdale, Michigan: Hillsdale College Press, 1991.
The New Subjectivist Revolution: An Elucidation and Extension of Ludwig von Mises's Contribution to Economic Theory, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. Now at Fort Myers, Fl. and Taipei, Taiwan: Nomad Press, 1990.
"Piaget and Social Economy," Review of Social Economy, Winter, 1985.
"Marriage and Investment in Human Capital: A Comment," Southern Economic Journal, October, 1984.
Book Review of W. W. Rostow's The Barbaric Counter-Revolution in Southern Economic Journal, October, 1984.
"Homogenization of Heterogeneous Resources: A Comment," American Economic Review, September, 1984.
"The Stifling Effect of Unemployment Policies," Freedom and Enterprise, Winter, 1981.
Book Review of Israel Kirzner's Perception, Opportunity and Profit, in Southern Economic Journal, January, 1981.
"Durability and the Theory of Institutions," in Frontiers of Economics, edited by Gordon Tullock, 1979.
"Two Abuses: Drugs and the Pareto Criterion," Public Finance Quarterly, January, 1976.
"How Profitable is Burglary?," in Economics of Crime and Punishment, edited by Simon Rottenberg, 1973.
"Toward a Theory of the Evolution of Government," in Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, edited by Gordon Tullock, 1972.
"An Economic Approach to Riot Analysis," Public Choice, Fall, 1972.

Other Papers

"Understanding Oil Prices," Petrol News, Sultan Qaboos University, Spring and Summer, 1999, Issue 2.
"Rogue Capital and Speculation," Mirat Al J'ama, Sultan Qaboos University, April 2000

Books Being Reviewed or Near Completion 

Understanding Democracy: An Introduction to Public Choice (Polish version published in August, 2001; English version under review by major textbook publisher.)
Praxeological Economics: The Market Economy and Its Method of Study
Praxeological Entrepreneurship and Equilibrium
Knowledge and Entrepreneurship: A Textbook in Microeconomics

Drafts of Papers (on the web)

I have been selective in my submissions of articles for review. As a result much of my work is unpublished but posted on my extensive collection of web pages. Since it is in a number of fields, I invite you to review it. Just click on the topic that interests you. Topics in economics are: Entrepreneurship and the Development of the Austrian Theory of Value and Cost; Equilibrium; Austrian Welfare Economics; Capital and Interest; Coase; Credit, Money, and Banking ; Public Choice and Democracy, About or Related to Taiwan

References

Gordon Tullock
Department of Economics
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(602) 621-2460
Fax: (602) 621-8450
gtulloc1@gmu.edu

Dennis Olson, Professor
School of Business Management
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Email: dolson@aus.ac.ae

Barry Seldon
School of Social Sciences
GR 31, Bldg. 23
University of Texas at Dallas
Box 830688
Dallas, TX 25000
Email: Seldon@utdallas.edu

Professor Bingyang Hsiung
Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
(886) 22 394-4861
Fax: (886) 22 3215704
Email: hsiung@ms.cc.ntu.edu.tw

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