Robert A. Lawson, Ph.D.
Department of Finance, College of Business, Auburn University, 415 W. Magnolia Ave., Auburn, AL 36849
Welcome to my home page! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Auburn University. From 1996-2008 I taught at Capital University, where I held the George H. Moor Chair. I am a co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World annual report which provides an economic freedom index for over 140 countries. I have professional publications in journals such as Public Choice, Cato Journal, Kyklos, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and European Journal of Political Economy. I served as president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and am a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. I blog regularly for divisionoflabour.com. I earned my B.S. in economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University and my M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University. My hobbies include marathons, ultra-marathons, playing vintage base ball, and mountaineering.