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Feb 27, 2024 · The cause of freedom lost one of its foremost champions earlier this year when Dr. James Gwartney passed away in January at the age of 83. Dr. Gwartney lived a remarkable life, rising from humble beginnings to become one of the most important scholars and teachers of economics in his generation.
Jan 18, 2024 · Had it not been for James Gwartney, we might not have had such a precise empirical understanding of the importance of economic freedom, though. Jim, who passed away on the 7 January at his home in Tallahassee, was born in rural Kansas in 1940 and worked on the family farm before getting an undergraduate degree in economics at Ottawa University.
Jan 11, 2024 · Gwartney and Stroup also teamed up with Russell Sobel and David MacPherson to write the best-selling introductory textbook, Economics: Private and Public Choice. Well-written and informative, when the book was first released, it stood out among its peers for incorporating the sub-field of public choice into its analysis, which essentially applies economics to the government sector to better ...
Economist James Gwartney died Sunday at 83. He made important scholarly contributions, but his role in educating the general public made him truly influential. Three contributions stand out: his textbook, his role in creating the Economic Freedom of the World index, and his (ultimately ill-fated) help in transforming a moribund Russian economy ...
An early founding scholar at The James Madison Institute and a member of JMI’s Research Advisory Council, economist Dr. James Gwartney passed away Sunday at the age of 83. A colleague and friend of Milton Freidman, Dr. Gwartney was a founding coauthor of the Economic Freedom of the World index, which since 1996 has been published by more than ...
Jan 7, 2024 · Images: Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark Kelly Economist James Gwartney died Sunday at 83. He made important scholarly contributions, but his role in educating the general public made ...
Jan 9, 2024 · Randall G. Holcombe • Tuesday, January 9, 2024. The world lost one of its most effective academic champions of freedom and free markets when Jim Gwartney passed away on January 7. Jim rarely wrote for popular audiences, so people unfamiliar with his academic work may not realize the influence he has had. Even those familiar with his academic ...
