Jack High is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University. He is the author or editor of several books on economics and business, including Maximizing, Action, and Market Adjustment (1988), A Nation in Debt (1990); A Century of the Sherman Antitrust Act (1990); Regulation (1991), The Politics of Purity (1999), Competition (2001), and Humane Economics (2007). He has also published numerous articles in professional journals, including "Bork's Paradox," Contemporary Policy Studies, "The Costs of Economical Writing," Economic Inquiry, "Wiley, Whiskey, and Strategic Behavior," Business History Review, "American Economic Thought," Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. His most recent research monograph is "Economics and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1910."

Professor High has served in several administrative posts during his academic career. He has been director of economic graduate studies, chairman of the Program on Social and Organizational Learning, director of the Market Process Center, and acting dean of the School of Business, all at George Mason University. He also edited Business History Review while at Harvard University.

Professor High's current research and teaching interests are international business and entrepreneurship. Besides George Mason, he has taught at Harvard University, Georgetown University, Charles University in Prague, and the University of Hong Kong.

• Economic Growth, History and Regulation
• International Institutions
• International Trade and Investment

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Education
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

M.A., University of California at Los Angeles

B.A., University of Utah

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, 1992 to 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
Chairman, Committee on Retention, Promotion, and Tenure, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2006-7

Member, Dean's Search Committee, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2006

Chairman, Dean'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, 1996-1997

Chairman, Task Force on Management Education, George Mason University, 1996-1997

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, 1984-1992

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, Graduate Policies Committee, Department of Economics, George Mason University, 1984-1990

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, Ph.D Curriculum Committee, Department of Economics, George Mason University, 1981-1982

Awards
Outstanding Faculty Award, 2008, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 2007, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 2006, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 2005, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 1998, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

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
High, J. "Balance of Payments." In International Encyclopedia of Trade and Finance, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

High, J. "Balance of Payments." In Princeton Encyclopedia of World Economy, edited by K. Reinert and R. Rajan, 996-1000. Princeton: Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2008.

"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

Books
High, J. Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie. Edited with introduction, London: Edward Elgar, 2006.

Book Sections
High, J. "Balance of Payments." In International Encyclopedia of Trade and Finance, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

High, J. "Balance of Payments." In Princeton Encyclopedia of World Economy, edited by K. Reinert and R. Rajan, 996-1000. Princeton: Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2008.

High, J. "Food and Drug Safety." In James Ciment, ed., Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia, vol. 3, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

Journal Articles and Reviews
High, J. "Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: The Theory of Emergent Institutions." The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 12, No. 3 (2009): 3-36.

Work in Progress
High, J. "Economics and the Rise of Big Business in America, 1870-1910." Revising for resubmission to Business History Review.

High, J. "Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth." Manuscript in progress.

High, J. "Financing Virginia's Roads: Value-Based Investing for Government Infrastructure." Manuscript, May 2008.

Honors
Outstanding Faculty Award, 2008, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 2007, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 2006, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University

Outstanding Faculty Award, 2005, Executive MBA Program, George Mason University