Burton Abrams

Education

• Ph.D. in economics, Ohio State University, 1974
• M.A. in economics, Ohio State University, 1972
• B.S. in economics, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968

Select Publications

• “Cash for Clunkers: The Uneasy Case for Subsidizing Energy Efficiency” (with G. R. Parsons), Milken Institute Review, forthcoming.
• “Is CARS a Clunker?” (with G. R. Parsons), The Economist’s Voice, 6(8), 2009.
• “Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results” (with J. Li and J.G. Mulligan), The Journal of Economic History, 68(4), 2008.
• “A Rejoinder to ‘A commentary on “Does the Fed contribute to a political business cycle?”‘” Public Choice, 134, 2008.
• “Do Fixed Exchange Rates Fetter Monetary Policy? A Credit View,” (with Russell Settle) Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 2007.
• “How Richard Nixon Pressured Arthur Burns: Evidence From the Nixon Tapes,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 4, Fall 2006.
• “Does the Fed Contribute to the Political Business Cycle?” Public Choice” (with Plamen Iossifov) Public Choice, pp 249-262, Fall 2006.
• Return to Animal Farm,  Turkish language edition, 2006.
• “Campaign Finance Reform: A Public Choice Perspective,” (with Russell Settle) Public Choice, Sept. 2004
• “The importance of property rights for economic outcomes: Lessons from the transfer of productive assets from collective to private ownership in Bulgarian agriculture,” (with Plamen Yossifov ) Proceedings of Enterprise in Transition (Fifth international conference), 2003, pp. 49-51, 2003.

Awards & Honors

• Who’s Who in America, 2001 – present
• Lerner Scholar Award, 2009
• Fulbright Professor, University of Split, Split, Croatia, 2002
• Who’s Who in America, 2001
• Fulbright Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 1994
• Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 1992
• Fulbright Professor, Nankai University, People’s Republic of China, 1985-86
• National Science Foundation Grant
• Visiting Staff Economist, Federal Trade Commission , 1984-85
• National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1978-79

Curriculum Vitae

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