Jack High
Professor of Public Policy

Publications & Research

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 Pure Food (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: Philosphia 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 1998 (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. 21-34.

“Bork’s Paradox,” Contemporary Policy Issues, (Winter 1984-85) pp. 21-34.

“A Critical Analysis of Search Theory,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, vol. 6, no. 2 (Winter 1984) pp. 252-64.

Articles in Books
“Food and Drug Safety,” in Social Issues in America:  An Encyclopedia of Controversies, History, and Debates (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.

Work in Progress
“Economics and the Rise of Big Business in America, 1870-1910,” revising for resubmision to Business History Review.

“Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth,” manuscript in progress.

“Financing Virginia’s Roads: Value-Based Investing for Government Infrastructure,” manuscript, May 2008