University of Edinburgh, October, 1978 - June, 1980. M. Litt. in English Literature.

Boston College, September, 1982 - March, 1984 (towards an M.A. in Political Science). Degree conferred June, 1984.

George Mason University, September, 1987 - January, 1993 (towards a Ph.D. in Economics). Degree conferred May, 1993.

Lecturer, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, New York, March, 1984 - August, 1987.

Market Manager, Smalltalk Components Market, on the American Information Exchange (AMiX), November, 1991 - August, 1992.

Research Associate, Mercatus Center (formerly, Center for Market Processes), Fairfax, Virginia, January, 1993 - May, 1995.

Adjunct Professor, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, January, 1994 - May, 1995.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, September, 1994 - December, 1994

Visiting Assistant Professor, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May, 1995 - May, 1996.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, September, 1996 - May, 1997.

Consultant on software development to a European multinational corporation, March 1997 - July 1997.

Adjunct Professor, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, August, 1997 - December 1997.

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, September 1997 - .

"Does Welfare Diminish Poverty?" The Freeman, April, 1984.

"Of Obligation and Transfer Taxation," The Freeman, November, 1984.

"Profit-Maker, Friend or Foe?" The Freeman, April, 1985.

"Deregulate the Utilities," The Freeman, September, 1986.

"Private Schools in the Inner City," The Freeman, November, 1986.

"Freedom in the Dock," The Freeman, February, 1987.

"Beauty and the Beast," Reason, January 1988.

"Ebenezer Scrooge and the Free Society," The Freeman, December, 1988.

[with D. Lavoie and W. Tulloh] "High Tech Hayekians: Some Possible Research Topics in the Economics of Computation," Market Process, 8, 1990.

[with D. Lavoie and W. Tulloh] "Increased Productivity through Reuse: An Economist's Perspective," Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop on Reuse, Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, Virginia, 1991.

[with D. Lavoie and W. Tulloh] "Coping with Complexity: OOPS and the Economists' Critique of Central Planning," Hotline on Object-Oriented Technology, Vol. 4, no. 1, November, 1991.

[with W. Tulloh] "Evolving Markets for Software Components," Hotline on Object-Oriented Technology, Vol. 4, no. 1, November, 1992.

"The Manners of the Market," Religion and Liberty, March/April, 1993.

"Social Impact of Computer Vision," D. H. Schaefer, and E. F. Williams, eds., Proceedings of the 25th AIPR Workshop: Emerging Applications of Computer Vision, SPIE, February, 1997.

[with Steve H. Hanke] "Doing Time Chills Crime," The World and I, March, 1997.

[with Steve H. Hanke] "The IMF Hydra," Jobs and Capital, Vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 1997.

"Knowledge Capital and ‘The Knowledge Problem’," American Programmer, March 1998.

"Why 'Smart Growth' is Not-Smart Economics," Studies in Social Cost, Regulation, and the Environment: No. 4, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, September, 2000.

[with Michael I. Lineberry] "The Mystery of Capital and Economic Calculation: How de Soto’s Insights Illuminate the Austrian Case for Private Property," The Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 18, no. 2, Spring 2003.

"Comment after twelve years by Howard Baetjer," on reprinting of Lavoie, Baetjer, and Tulloh, "High Tech Hayekians: Some Possible Research Topics in the Economics of Computation," in J. Birner and P. Garrouste, eds., Markets, Information, and Communication, Austrian Perspectives on the Internet Economy, New York: Routledge, 2003.

"At the Intersection of the Minimum Wage and Illegal Immigration," The Freeman, March, 2007.

"Something Besides Money Growth Causes Inflation? It Just Ain't So!" The Freeman, July/August, 2007.

"Knowledge, Discovery, Incentives and Institutions: Teaching Public Policy Analysis with Austrian and Public Choice Insights," The Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 23, no. 1, Fall 2007.

[unpublished dissertation] Software as Capital: Lessons for Economic Development from Software Engineering, 1993.

Software as Capital: An Economic Perspective on Software Engineering, Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998.

Graduate course taught: "Computational Modeling of Social Learning"

Graduate course taught: "Interpretive Economics" (hypertext course)

Graduate course taught: "Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem" (hypertext course conducted entirely via internet)

MBA course taught: "Global and Domestic Environment of Business"

Undergraduate course taught: "Economic Problems and Policy Issues"

Undergraduate course taught: "Contemporary Society in Multiple Perspectives"

Undergraduate course taught: "Principles of Microeconomics"

Undergraduate course taught: "Comparative Economic Systems"

Undergraduate course taught: "Public Finance"

Undergraduate course taught: "Money and Banking"

Seminar course taught: "Introduction to Market-Process Economics" (10 hours)

Seminar faculty: "Exploring Liberty." Seminar sponsored by Institute for Humane Studies, summers 1996-.

Developed graduate course in evolutionary economics, "Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem" (1996, 1997), which uses electronic file transfer of Folio VIEWS hypertext "shadow files" to support collaborative written discussion, along with web-based conferencing system built in Lotus Domino.

Paper presented to the Southern Economic Association: "Capital Structure Evolution: Austrian Observations on the Case of Software Development," November, 1999.

Invited paper presented to the 15th International Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Estimation, Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Software Productivity Improvement Network: "Towards Measuring Software Value," October, 2000.

Paper presented to the Southern Economic Association: "Is F'' (k) < 0? A Lachmannian Challenge to Growth Theory," November, 2000.

Paper presented to the Association of Private Enterprise Education: "Why 'Smart Growth' is Not-Smart Economics," April, 2001.

Discussant, Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2001.

Paper presented (with co-author Michael I. Lineberry) to the Association of Private Enterprise Education: "The Mystery of Capital and Economic Calculation: How de Soto’s Insights Illuminate the Austrian Case for Private Property," April 2002.

Discussant, "Economics, Philosophy, & Information Technology: The Intellectual Contributions of Don Lavoie," George Mason University, September 2002.

Panel chair, Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2003.

Discussant, Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2005.

Panel chair and discussant, Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2006.

Paper presented to the Southern Economic Association: [with Peter Lewin] "Can Ideas be Capital: Can Capital be Anything Else?" November 2007.

Conference Participant: Third Annual Workshop on Reuse, Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, Virginia, November 18-22, 1991.

Panelist: "New Opportunities for the Information Entrepreneur," Telestrategies Conference on "Internet, A Government Network Going Private", Reston, Virginia, April 22, 1992.

Panelist: "Commercial Opportunities for Service and Access Providers," Telestrategies Conference on "Commercializing Internet," Washington, D.C., September 15, 1992.

Panelist: "Public Policy Institutes and the Educational Arena," 20th International Workshop, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Herndon, Virginia, May 14, 1993.

Panelist: "Software as a Corporate Asset," ObjectWorld Executive Forum, Boston, Massachusetts, March 20, 1995.

Speaker: "The Social Impact of Computer Vision," 25th AIPR Workshop, Emerging Applications of Computer Vision, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1996.