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Christopher Coyne

Associated Research Fellow
Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
ccoyne@hsc.edu

Biography

Christopher Coyne is an assistant professor of economics at West Virginia University and an associated research fellow at the Mercatus Center, where he is working with the Social Change Project.

Dr. Coyne's research has been published in many journals, including the Cato Journal, Constitutional Political Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Kyklos, Review of Austrian Economics, Review of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.  An overview of his research is available at his personal website: http://www.ccoyne.com/. His book After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy will be published by Stanford University Press in November 2007.

Areas of research interest include Austrian economics, economic development, law and economics, public choice, and political economy.

Dr. Coyne earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University and a BS in finance and economics from Manhattan College. Prior to moving to West Virginia University in 2007, he was an assistant professor of economics at Hampden-Sydney College.

Articles, Commentary, and Publications

• The Political Economy of FEMA
• The Politics of Bureaucracy and the Failure of Post-War Reconstruction
• Economics and Happiness Research: Insights from Austrian and Public Choice Economics
• Institutions, Immigration and Identity
• Liberalism in the Post 9/11 World
• The Role of Media as a Supporting Institution: Implications for Development Policy
• Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
• Manipulating the Media
• High Priests and Lowly Philosophers:The Battle for the Soul of Economics
• After War: Understanding Postwar Reconstruction

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Books

• After War
• "Entrepreneurship or Entremanureship? Digging Through Romania's Institutional Environment for Transitional Lessons"

Events

• After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
• The Constitution of Development