History of Economic Thought | Political Economy | Austrian Economics
Daniel J. Smith is Professor of Economics and Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at Middle Tennessee State University’s Jones College of Business. He serves as North American Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics, Senior Fellow for Fiscal and Regulatory Policy at the Beacon Center of Tennessee, and a member of the Board of Scholars at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Smith is a past president of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. He previously held the BB&T Professorship of Economic Freedom in the Manuel H. Johnson Center at Troy University and taught at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
His research centers on the history of economic thought—with particular attention to F.A. Hayek and Walter Lippmann—and on political economy and public choice. Specific interests include regulation, democracy, monetary institutions, public pensions, and term limits. He has also studied topics such as the governance of historic Venice, soccer hooliganism, and community recovery after natural disasters.
Smith’s scholarly articles have appeared in Public Choice, the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Political Economy, and other leading field journals. He is co-author of two books from Cambridge University Press: Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions (with Peter J. Boettke and Alexander W. Salter) and The Political Economy of Public Pensions (with Eileen Norcross).
He has published more than one hundred articles and op-eds in national and regional outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and the Tennessean. Smith frequently gives media interviews and public lectures across the United States.
Smith earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and his B.B.A. in economics and finance from Northwood University.