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Nicholas A. Snow

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BKT Assistant Professor of Economics

Tom and Anne Walsh Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Economics

Department of Economics

Wabash College

About

Nicholas A. Snow

I am currently a BKT Assistant Professor of Economics and the Tom and Anne Walsh Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Economics at Wabash College.

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Contact: snown@wabash.edu 

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Research

CV and Working Papers

CV  (PDF) - Last Updated July 25, 2024

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"Rent Seeking on Rum Row" (under review)

"Interstate Cannabis Legalization: Mind the Trap" (with Audrey Redford and Todd Nesbit

Journal Articles

"Externality and Taboo: Resolving the Judaic Pig Puzzle" (with Peter T. Leeson and Vincent Geloso), Rationality and Society 36(1) 2024: 5-33. 

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"The Impartial Wally: A Smithian Analysis of Wabash College's Gentlemen's Rule," Cosmos + Taxis 11(11+12) 2023: 48-61. 

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"Nudging to Prohibition? A Reassessment of Irving Fisher's Economics of Prohibition in Light of Modern Behavioral Economics" (with Nicholas A. Curott), Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45(1) 2023: 117-136. 

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“Competition for Antitrust: The National Civic Federation and the Founding of the Federal Trade Commission" (with Peter J. Boettke and Thomas K. Duncan), Journal of Prices and Markets, 7(1): 2019: 3-17.

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“Political Economy and the Science of Association: The Natural Alliance of the Vienna and Virginia Traditions.” (with P. Boettke), Review of Austrian Economics 27(1) 2014: 97-110.

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“Rational Irrationality and the Political Process of Repeal: The Women’s Organization of National Prohibition Reform and the 21st Amendment” (with D. Thomas and M. Thomas), Kyklos, 66(1) 2014: 130-152.

 

“Hooligans” (with P. Leeson and D. Smith), Revue d’Economie Politique, 122(2) 2012: 213-231.

 

“The Servants of Obama’s Machinery: F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Revisited? - A Reply” (with P. Boettke), Eastern Economic Journal, 38(4) 2012: 428-433.

 

“War and Liberty: Wisdom from Leonard E. Read and F.A. ‘Baldy’ Harper.” (with C. Coyne),Economic Affairs, 31(3) 2011: 51-53. 

 

“Free to Smoke” (with W. Block), Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 29 (1-4) 2011: 135-153.

 

“Context of Context: The Evolution of Hayek’s Epistemic Turn in Economics and Politics” (with P. Boettke and E. Shaeffer), Advances in Austrian Economics, 14 2010, 69-86.

 

“Banks, Insurance Companies, and Discrimination” (with W. Block and E. Stringham),Business and Society Review, 113(3) 2008, 403-419.

 

“The Broken Trailer Fallacy: Seeing the Unseen Effects of Government Policies in Post-Katrina New Orleans” (with E. Stringham), International Journal of Social Economics, 35(7) 2008, 480-489. (Lead article)

Book Chapters and Reviews

"Block Against the blockheads: Learning From Economics and the Absurd," Forthcoming in Walter Block's Festschrift.

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“Prohibition.” In Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds., Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. New York: Springer, 2018. 

 

“Criminal Constitutions.” In Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds., Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. New York: Springer, 2018. 

 

“Alcohol Prohibition.” In Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds., Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. New York: Springer, 2016. 

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“Dennis M.P. McCarthy, An Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach,” Public Choice, 154: 337-340,  2013.

 

"Daniel Okrent, Book Review of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.” Review of Austrian Economics. 24(4): 451-454, 2011.

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“Been There Done That: The Political Economy of Deja Vu” (with P. Boettke and D. Smith). In, S. Kates, ed., The Global Financial Crisis: Alternative Perspectives on What we have Learnt. Edward Elgar. 2011.

 

“Classical Political Economy” (with P. Boettke), in M. Bevir (ed.) Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage. (2011).

  • Recipient of the American Library Association’s Outstanding Reference Source Award (2011). 

Courses

Below are a sample of courses I teach at Wabash College. Please see my CV for a full list of the courses I have taught. 

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Principles of Economics

Introduction to PPE

Economics of Black Markets

Principles of Micro and Macro combined.

Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. I team teach this course with someone from philosophy or political science.

This Course uses economics to evaluate various illicit markets.

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History of Economic thought

Economics from the Greeks to Adam Smith and into the 20th century.

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Law and Economics

Rational Choice Theory applied to legal analysis.

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Topics in Political Economy

Rotating topics on political economy. Previous topics include, Growth, War, FA Hayek, and Anarchy.

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