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John Nye
Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political EconomyProfessor of Economics, George Mason University
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Biography
John Nye holds the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is a specialist in European economic history and the new institutional economics.
Dr. Nye was a founding member of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics and has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. He was co-editor of Frontiers in the New Institutional Economics. His articles have been published in a variety of journals. In 1997, he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2003, Professor Nye received the ArtSci Council Faculty Teaching Award. His current projects include research into the Anglo-French wine trade, the political economy of state intervention in trade, and detecting collusion in championship chess.
Recent publications include "Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain" with Joel Mokyr, forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal, 2007 and "Tax Britannica: Nineteenth Century Tariffs and British National Income" with Sami Dakhlia, Public Choice, December, 2004. His current projects include research into the Anglo-French wine trade, the political economy of policy reform, and collusion in international sporting tournaments. His book, War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade 1689-1900 is forthcoming in 2007 from Princeton University Press.
Dr. Nye earned a BS from the California Institute of Technology and a MA and PhD from Northwestern University.
