Donald Boudreaux

Donald J. Boudreaux
Born	1958 (age 58–59)
Nationality	United States
Institution	George Mason University
Field	Law and economics, Austrian economics, International Trade
School or tradition	Austrian School
Alma mater	University of Virginia Auburn University
Influences	Friedrich Hayek

Donald Joseph Boudreaux (born 1958) is an American libertarian economist, author, professor, and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Boudreaux received a PhD in economics from Auburn University in 1986 with a thesis on "Contracting, Organization, and Monetary Instability: Studies in the Theory of the Firm." He received a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992.

Boudreaux was an Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University from 1985 to 1989. He was an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Economics at Clemson University from 1992 to 1997, and President of the Foundation for Economic Education from 1997 to 2001. He is now Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he served as chairman of the Economics Department from 2001 to 2009.

During the spring 1996 semester he was an Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School. Boudreaux is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank.

He is the author of the 2007 book Globalization and the 2012 book Hypocrites and Half-Wits.

He contributes a column twice a month to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and contributes to the Cafe Hayek blog.

Boudreaux has lectured in the United States, Latin America, and Europe on topics including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade.

He spoke at an Institute for Economic Studies seminar on Europe & Liberty in Deva, Romania, in 2007.

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