CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Jack High
ADDRESS: School of Public Policy, MS 3B1
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
EDUCATION:
Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1980 Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975 Bachelor of Arts, University of Utah, 1972
REFERENCES:
Thomas K. McCraw
Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02163 Richard H. K. Vietor
Sen. John Heinz Professor of Environmental Studies Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02163
EMPLOYMENT:
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, George Mason University, 1995 to present
Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University, 1988 to 1995 Assistant Professor, George Mason University, 1981-1988
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, January 1993 to August 1994
Newcomen Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1990-1991
Visiting Assistant Professor, California State at Long Beach, 1983-1984 Lecturer, California State University at Fullerton, 1978-1979, 1980-1981 Teaching Assistant, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1976 Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 1971-1972
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:
Member, Provost’s Search Committee, George Mason University, School of Public Policy, 2009
Member, Provost’s Search Committee, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2006
Chairman, Provost’s Search Committee, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, 2005
Interim Dean, School of Business Administration, George Mason University, 1996-1997.
Interim Director, Graduate Business Institute, George Mason University, 1996-97.
Acting Editor, Business History Review, Harvard Business School, 1992-1994. Chairman, Department of Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason University, 1992.
Director, Center for the Study of Market Processes, George Mason University, 1984 to 1992
Chairman, Task Force on Management Education, George Mason University, 1996-97
Member, Dean's Advisory Group, College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, 1991-1992
Director, Economics Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, George Mason University, 1989-1990
Member of Financial Operations Committee, SACS, George Mason University, 1990
Member of President's Interactive Relations Committee, George Mason University, 1990
Member, Board of Directors, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Washington, D.C., 1985-1989
Member, Academic Policies and Planning Committee, George Mason University, 1986-1989
Member, Graduate Policies Committee, Department of Economics, George Mason University, 1984-1990
Member, Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, Department of Economics, George Mason University, 1981-1982
AWARDS:
Outstanding Faculty Award, 1998, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University.
Outstanding Faculty Award, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Executive MBA Program, George Mason University
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie, edited with introduction (London: Edward Elgar, 2006).
Competition, edited with introduction, (London: Edward Elgar, 2001).
The Politics of Purity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999) with Clayton Coppin.
A Century of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890-1990, edited with introduction (Fairfax: George Mason University Press, 1991), with Wayne Gable.
Regulation: Economic Theory and History, edited with introduction (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1991).
Maximizing, Action, and Market Adjustment: An Inquiry Into the Theory of Economic Disequilibrium (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1990).
A Nation in Debt: Economists Debate the Federal Budget Deficit, edited with introduction (Maryland: University Publications of America, 1987), with Richard Fink.
Articles in Refereed Journals
"Social Contracts and Pipe Dreams," Contemporary Policy Issues (Long Beach: Western Economics Association), vol. 10, January 1992. pp. 39-51 (with Jerome Ellig).
"Umpires at Bat: The Role of Regulators in Food Legislation," Business and Economic History (Williamsburg: College of William and Mary), second series, vol. 20, 1991 (with Clayton Coppin).
"Can Rents Run Uphill?", Public Choice (The Hague, The Netherlands: Martinis Nijhoff Publishers), vol. 65: 229-237, June 1990.
"On the History of Ordinal Utility Theory: 1900-1932," History of Political Economy (Durham: Duke University Press), vol. 21: 351-366, Summer 1989 (with Howard Bloch).
"Wiley, Whiskey, and Strategic Behavior: An Analysis of the Passage of the Pure Food Act," Business History Review (Boston: Harvard Business School Press) vol. 62, Summer 1988 (with Clayton Coppin).
"Does Bounding the Utility Function Resolve the St. Petersburg Paradox," Theory and Decision 25, (1988) pp. 219-223 (with Tyler Cowen).
"Antitrust and Competition, Historically Considered," Economic Inquiry, vol. XXVI, July 1988, pp. 423-436 (with Thomas DiLorenzo).
"The Costs of Economical Writing," Economic Inquiry, vol. XXV, no. 3 (July 1987) pp. 543-45.
"State Education: Have Economists Made a Case?," Cato Journal, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1985) pp. 305-323.
"Is Economics Independent of Ethics?," Reason Papers, no. 10 (Spring 1985) pp. 3-16.
"Economics and Antitrust: Bork's Contributions - Introduction," Contemporary Policy Issues, vol. III, no. 2 (Winter 1984-85) pp. 1-2.
"A Critical Analysis of Search Theory," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, vol. 6, no. 2 (Winter 1984) pp. 252-64.
Articles in Books
“Balance of Payments,” in International Encyclopedia of Trade and Finance
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
“Food and Drug Safety,” in James Ciment, ed., Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia, vol. 3 (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006)
“The Roles of Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth,” in Henri de Groot, Peter Nijkamp, and Roger Stough, eds., Entrepreneurship in the Spatial Economy
(Edward Elgar, 2004)
"American Economic Thought," in Stanley Kutler, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of the United States in the Twentieth Century (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995)
"Marginal Utility," in Peter Boettke, ed., Handbook of Austrian Economics
(Edward Elgar, 1994)
"The Austrian Theory of Price," in Peter Boettke, ed., Handbook of Austrian Economics (Edward Elgar, 1994)
"Competition," in David R. Henderson, ed., Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics
(New York: Time-Life Publishers, 1993)
"Regulation as a Process," in Richard M. Ebeling, ed., Austrian Economics
(Hillsdale: Hillsdale College Press, 1991)
"A Tale of Two Disciplines," in Jack High, ed., Regulation: Economic Theory and History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 1-17.
"Entrepreneurship and Competition in Bureaucracy: Harvey Washington Wiley's Bureau of Chemistry, 1883 - 1903," in Jack High, ed., Regulation (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 95-118. (with Clayton Coppin)
"The Private Supply of Education: Some Historical Evidence," in Tyler Cowen, ed., The Theory of Market Failure: A Critical Reappraisal, (George Mason University Press, 1988) pp. 361-382 (with Jerome Ellig).
"Equilibration and Disequilibration in the Market Process," in Subjectivism, Intelligibility and Economic Understanding, edited by Israel Kirzner, (New York University Press, 1986) pp. 111-121.
"Alertness and Judgment," in Method, Process and Austrian Economics, edited by Israel Kirzner, (New York: Lexington Books, 1982) pp. 161-168.
Other Articles
"The World Trade Organization: Toward Freer Trade or World Bureaucracy," (Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, April, 1995)
"Self Interest and Responsive Regulation," Critical Review, vol. 7,
Spring/Summer, 1993; a review essay of Responsive Regulation by Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite (Oxford University Press, 1991).
"America Takes a Long March into Space," Spaceflight, Vol. 32. (London: British Interplanetary Society) April, 1990 (with Lawrence H. Stern).
"A Note on the Cost Controversy," Market Process, vol. 5, no. 1, 26 (Spring 1987) pp. 8-10.
“The Case for Austrian Economics,” Intercollegiate Review (Winter 1984), pp. 37-42.
"The 1983 Nobel Award: A Comment on General Equilibrium Theory," Market Process, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 1984) pp. 2-3.
“The Market Process: An Austrian View,” Market Process, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1983), pp. 1-8.
"What's Wrong with Regulation and Antitrust: The AT&T Case" in Policy Report, vol. 4, no. 1 (January 1982) pp. 1, 3-6.
"DOE: Mixing Politics and Education" in Policy Report, vol. 2, no. 3 (March, 1980) pp. 1, 3-5.
Reprinted Articles
"To Park or Not to Park," from The Mason Gazette, reprinted in The Margin, vol. 3, no. 3 (November 1987) p. 19.
"Bork's Paradox," from Contemporary Policy Issues, reprinted in Stephen C. Littlechild, editor, Austrian Economics, vol. III (Edward Elgar Co., 1990)
"The Market Process: An Austrian View," from Market Process, reprinted in Peter Boettke and David Prychitko, eds., The Market Process (Edward Elgar, 1994)
of John Maynard Keynes by Robert Skidelsky in Business History Review, 2002. of Money for Nothing by Fred McChesney in Decision and Management Science, 1998.
of Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics by Donald McCloskey in Business History Review, Summer 1996.
of European Cases in International Business by Tony Eccles in Columbia Journal of World Business, 1994.
of Pure Food by James Harvey Young in the Business History Review, summer 1989.
of Strategic Uses of Public Policy by Donna Wood in the Southern Economic Journal, July 1988.
of The Writing of Economics by Donald McCloskey in Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 1987.
of Economic Theories in a non-Walrasian Tradition by T. Negishi in Market Process, vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 1986) pp. 10-11, 14.
of The Economic Way of Thinking by Paul Heyne in American Economic Texts
(Reston, VA: Young America's Foundation, 1982) pp. 189-207.
of Perception, Opportunity, and Profit by I. Kirzner in Austrian Economics Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 3 (Spring 1980) pp. 1, 12-14.
of The Economic System in an Age of Discontinuity, W. Leontief, ed. in Hong Kong Economic Review, (January 1978).
Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, E. Dolan, ed. in Barron's (July 11, 1977).
Work in Progress
“Economics and the Rise of Big Business: 1870-1910,” revised and resubmitted to Business History Review.
“Investing in Virginia’s Roads: An Economic Value Approach,” prepared for GMU’s transportation program.
“Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and Economic Growth,” revising for re-submission to Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
“The Historical Element in Economic Theory,” submitted to the Review of Austrian Economics.
