James D. Gwartney

James D. Gwartney is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics at Florida State University, where he taught for 53 years. He is the lead author of Economics: Private and Public Choice, a widely used economic principles text now in its 17th edition. Dr. Gwartney is also coauthor of the Fraser Institute’s annual report Economic Freedom of the World, which provides information on the consistency of institutions and policies with economic freedom for 165 countries. His publications have appeared in scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Education, Southern Economic Journal, and Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. During 1999–2000, he served as Chief Economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the U. S. Congress. He is a past president of the Southern Economic Association and the Association of Private Enterprise Education. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of Washington.