Antony Davies
- Senior Affiliated Scholar, Associate Professor of Economics, Duquesne University
Antony Davies is a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, co-founder and Chief Academic Officer at FreedomTrust, and associate professor of economics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Dr. Davies co-hosts Words & Numbers, a weekly podcast on economics and policy. He has written books on statistics and economics, and has co-authored hundreds of op-eds for, among others, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Huffington Post, and Washington Post. He has also produced more than 200 educational videos on economics, public policy, and statistics. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Davies was Associate Producer at the Moving Pictures Institute, Chief Financial Officer at Parabon Computation, and founded several technology companies.
Latest Work
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
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Equality, Liberty, and Prosperity

- | Regulation Regulation
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More-Regulated Industries Experience Lower Productivity Growth

- | Government Spending Government Spending
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Does the Minimum Wage Increase Worker Productivity?

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors
- | Regulation Regulation
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Regulation and Productivity
- | Regulation Regulation
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Unintended Consequences of Raising the Minimum Wage

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Raising the Minimum Wage Is No Free Lunch
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Solve the Fiscal Cliff With a Spending Cap
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How Pols Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Impenetrable Tax Code
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Tax Gimmicks
Latest Work
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Equality, Liberty, and Prosperity

- | Regulation Regulation
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
More-Regulated Industries Experience Lower Productivity Growth

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Does the Minimum Wage Increase Worker Productivity?

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Regulation and Productivity
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Unintended Consequences of Raising the Minimum Wage

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Raising the Minimum Wage Is No Free Lunch
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Solve the Fiscal Cliff With a Spending Cap
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How Pols Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Impenetrable Tax Code
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Tax Gimmicks
Latest Work
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Equality, Liberty, and Prosperity

- | Regulation Regulation
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
More-Regulated Industries Experience Lower Productivity Growth

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Does the Minimum Wage Increase Worker Productivity?

- | Regulation Regulation
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Regulation and Productivity
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Unintended Consequences of Raising the Minimum Wage

- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Tax Gimmicks
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Working Papers Working Papers
The U.S. Experience With Fiscal Stimulus
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Income Distribution in the United States

- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Tax Rates and Migration
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Tax Rates vs. Tax Revenues

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- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Foreigners Welcome? The Economics Of High-Skilled Immigration
Latest Work
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors
Latest Work
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Raising the Minimum Wage Is No Free Lunch
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Solve the Fiscal Cliff With a Spending Cap
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
How Pols Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Impenetrable Tax Code
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Why We Should Care About America's Fading Economic Freedom

- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Happy Deficit Day, America!
- | Government Spending Government Spending
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Debt Forecast: U.S. Will Look Like Greece By 2021

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
3 Lies About Jobs and the Unemployment Rate

- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
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Free Markets vs. Government Plunder
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