William F. Shughart II

Names

first:	William
middle:	F.
last:	Shughart
suffix:	II

Contact

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homepage:	https://huntsman.usu.edu/economicsandfinance/directory?faculty-directory&groupID=634&memberID=6193
phone:	(435) 797-1571
postal address:	Department of Economics and Finance Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Utah State University 3565 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3565

Affiliations

• Utah State University → Jon M. Huntsman School of Business → Department of Economics and Finance (weight: 66%)
  • website
  • location: Logan, Utah (United States)
• Independent Institute (weight: 34%)
  • website
  • location: Oakland, California (United States)

Research profile

author of:

• On the Third Law of Demand
  by Laura Razzolini & William F. Shughart & Robert D. Tollison
• Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution
  by William F. Shughart II & Robert D. Tollison & Zhipeng Yan
• George W. Bush and the Return to Deficit Finance
  by William F. Shughart II
• Dennis C. Mueller, Public Choice III
  by William F. Shughart II
• Under Two Flags: Symbolic Voting in the State of Mississippi
  by G.–khan R. Karahan & William F. Shughart II
• The Random Character of Merger Activity
  by William F. Shughart II & Robert D. Tollison
• Demand Fluctuations and Firm Heterogeneity.
  by Das, Bhaskar J. & Chappell, William F. & Shughart, William F., II
• Instant Winners: Legal Change in Transition and the Diffusion of State Lotteries.
  by Jackson, John D. & Saurman, David S. & Shughart, William F., II
• September 11, 2001: Erratum.
  by Shughart, William F., II
• The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply.
  by McCormick, Robert E. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Preliminary Evidence on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System.
  by Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• On the Incentives of Judges to Enforce Legislative Wealth Transfers.
  by Anderson, Gary M. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Adam Smith in the Customhouse.
  by Anderson, Gary M. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen.
  by Goff, Brian L. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Competition, Expenditures and Student Performance: Reply to Borland and Howsaen.
  by Couch, Jim F. & Shughart, William F., II
• Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule Revisited.
  by Goff, Brian L. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• The Disinterest in Deregulation.
  by McCormick, Robert E. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance: Reply.
  by Couch, Jim F. & Shughart, William F., II
• Legislation and Political Business Cycles
  by WILLIAM F. SHUGHART & ROBERT D. TOLLISON
• Firm Heterogeneity and Production Flexibility: Evidence from Price-Cost Margins of Large and Small Firms.
  by Chappell, William F. & Mayer, Walter J. & Shughart, William F., II
• The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull?
  by Congleton, Roger D. & Shughart, William F., II
• Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance.
  by Couch, Jim F. & Shughart, William F., II & Williams, Al L.
• Price-Cost Margins and Industry Structure in Developing Countries: The Case of Korea.
  by Kimenyi, Mwangi S. & Lee, Jooh & Shughart, William F., II
• September 11, 2001.
  by Shughart, William F., II
• Reversal of Fortune: The Politics and Economics of the Superconducting Supercollider.
  by Basuchoudhary, Atin & Pecorino, Paul & Shughart, William F., II
• Economists and the Economy.
  by Laband, David N. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• September 11, 2001.
  by Shughart, William F., II
• A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence.
  by Anderson, Gary M. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply.
  by McCormick, Robert E. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• The Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System: Reply.
  by Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• On the (Relative) Unimportance of a Balanced Budget.
  by Razzolini, Laura & Shughart, William F., II
• Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change.
  by Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Ethics Laws and the Outside Earnings of Politicians: The Case of Alabama's "Legislator-Educators."
  by Couch, Jim F. & Atkinson, Keith E. & Shughart, William F., II
• Rational Self-Taxation: Complementary Inputs and Excise Taxation.
  by William F., II Shughart & Robert D. Tollison & Richard S. Higgins
• Market structure, sales to government, and the theory of oligopoly
  by Chappell, William F. & Shughart, William II
• Educational achievement and the cost of bureaucracy
  by Anderson, Gary M. & Shughart, William II & Tollison, Robert D.
• The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test.
  by Amacher, Ryan & et al
• On the Internal Contradictions of the Law of One Price
  by Fred S. McChesney & William F. Shughart & David D. Haddock
• The Political Economy of the IRS
  by Marilyn Young & Michael Reksulak & William F. Shughart
• Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. No. 15 in the American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, Steven E. Woodworth (Ed.), Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2004. xxix + 124 pages. USD 65.00 (cloth); 19.95 (paper).
  by William Shughart
• Public choice in the new century
  by William Shughart & Robert Tollison
• The unfinished business of public choice
  by William Shughart & Robert Tollison
• James T. Bennett, Tax-Funded Politics. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 204 pages. USD 29.95 (cloth).
  by William Shughart
• Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
  by William Shughart
• Centralized versus decentralized decision-making in a county government setting
  by Gökhan R. Karahan & Laura Razzolini & William F. Shughart II
• Corrupt political jurisdictions and voter participation
  by Gökhan Karahan & R. Coats & William Shughart
• Katrinanomics: The politics and economics of disaster relief
  by William Shughart
• James C. Miller III, Monopoly politics
  by William Shughart II
• Joseph Cornwall Palamountain, Jr., The politics of distribution.
  by William Shughart
• Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert, Robert D. Tollison, Gary M. Anderson, and Audrey B. Davidson, Sacred trust: The medieval Church as an economic firm
  by William Shughart
• The regressive nature of civil penalties
  by Altrogge, Phyllis & Shughart, William II
• Affirmative action and unemployment
  by Kimenyi, Mwangi S. & Shughart, William II & Tollison, Robert D.
• The positive economics of antitrust policy: A survey article
  by Shughart, Willam II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Price leadership with incomplete information
  by Higgins, Richard S. & Shughart, William II & Tollison, Robert D.
• Crime or punishment? : Enforcement of the NCAA football cartel
  by Fleisher, Arthur III & Shughart, William II & Tollison, Robert D. & Goff, Brian L.
• The convergence of satisficing to marginalism : An empirical test
  by Crain, W. Mark & Shughart, William II & Tollison, Robert D.
• An analytical history of terrorism, 1945–2000
  by William Shughart
• A theory of commodity bundling in final product markets: Professor Hirshleifer meets Professor Becker
  by McCormick, Robert E. & Shughart II, William F. & Tollison, Robert D.
• Flags of our fathers: Voting on Confederate symbols in the State of Georgia
  by Michael Reksulak & Gökhan Karahan & William Shughart
• Book review: The economic laws of scientific research, by Kealey, T., Houndmills, Hampshire: Macmillan Press and New York: St Martin's Press, 1996
  by William F. Shughart II
• Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports, by A. Zimbalist, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, xii+252 pp., $24.95 (cloth).
  by William F. Shughart II & Robert D. Tollison
• Notorious murders, black lanterns, & moveable goods: the transformation of Edinburgh's underworld in the early nineteenth century, by Symonds, D. A., Series on International Political and Economic History, University of Akron Press: Akron, OH; 2006, xiv+180pp., USD 39.95 (cloth).
  by William F. Shughart
• The Economics of Network Industries, by Shy, O. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xiii +315 pp., $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
  by William F. Shughart
• Morgan: American financier, by Strouse, J., New York: Random House, 1999, xv+796 pp., $34.95 (cloth)
  by William F. Shughart II
• The Informant: A True Story, by Eichenwald, K. New York: Broadway Books, 2000, xv+606 pp., $26.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paper)
  by William F. Shughart II
• Book review: The ownership of enterprise, by Hansmann, H., Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996
  by William F. Shughart
• Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game, by Lewis, M. New York and London: Norton, 2003, xv + 288 pp., USD 24.95 (cloth)
  by William Shughart
• Book Review: TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR., by Chernow, R., New York: Random House, 1998
  by W. F. Shughart
• Editorial announcement
  by William Shughart & Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard & Michael Munger
• Taxonomy: racism versus fiscal conservatism in voting on segregationist provisions in Alabama’s constitution
  by Michael Reksulak & William Shughart
• Henry H. Bauer. The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
  by William Shughart
• The Political Economy of Constitutional Choice: A Study of the 2005 Kenyan Constitutional Referendum
  by Mwangi S. Kimenyi & William F. Shughart II
• Christopher J. Coyne: After war: the political economy of exporting democracy
  by William Shughart
• Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective
  by Michael Reksulak & William F. Shughart II & Robert D. Tollison
• No Pretense to Honesty: County Government Corruption in Mississippi
  by Gökhan Karahan & Laura Razzolini & William Shughart
• And the Beat Goes On: Further Evidence on Voting on the Form of County Governance in the Midst of Public Corruption
  by Gökhan R. Karahan & R. Morris Coats & William F. Shughart
• Editorial announcement
  by W. Shughart
• Prophet of innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction, by McCraw, T. K., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge and London, 2007, xi+719pp., USD 35.00 (cloth)
  by William F. Shughart
• Innovation and the opportunity cost of monopoly
  by Michael Reksulak & William F. Shughart & Robert D. Tollison
• Political Entry Barriers and Tax Incidence: The Political Economy of Sales and Excise Taxes
  by Anderson, G. M. & Shughart, William F., II & Tollison, R. D.
• Robert D. Tollison, 65 years on
  by William Shughart
• Public choice theory and antitrust policy
  by William Shughart & Fred McChesney
• The political economy of constitutional choice: a study of the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum
  by Mwangi Kimenyi & William Shughart
• The consequences of the US DOJ’s antitrust activities: A macroeconomic perspective
  by Andrew Young & William Shughart
• ON ETHNIC CONFLICT AND THE ORIGINS OF TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
  by Atin Basuchoudhary & William Shughart
• Enforcement of the USA Patriot Act's anti-money laundering provisions: Have regulators followed a risk-based approach?
  by Dolar, Burak & Shughart II, William F.
• Of Rebates and Drawbacks: The Standard Oil (N.J.) Company and the Railroads
  by Michael Reksulak & William Shughart
• 2010 Presidential Address - The New Deal and Modern Memory
  by William F. Shughart II
• Smoke and Mirrors
  by Taylor P. Stevenson & William F. Shughart II
• What should government do? Problems of social cost, externalities and all that
  by Michael Reksulak & William Shughart
• Corruption and Voter Participation
  by Monica Escaleras & Peter T. Calcagno & William F. Shughart II
• Political successions and the growth of government
  by Mwangi Kimenyi & William Shughart
• Legal Institutions and Abortion Rates in Mississippi
  by Charles A. Barbour & William F. Shughart II
• Durable Tax Reform
  by William F. Shughart II
• A Public Choice Perspective of the Banking Act of 1933
  by William F. Shughart II
• Don't Revise the Clayton Act, Scrap It !
  by William F. Shughart II
• The Reformer’s Dilemma
  by William F. Shughart II
• A note on centralized regulatory review
  by James Miller & William Shughart & Robert Tollison
• A public choice theory of the great contraction
  by Gary Anderson & William Shughart & Robert Tollison
• Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking
  by Richard Higgins & William Shughart & Robert Tollison
• Clubs and club goods
  by Gary M. Anderson & William F. Shughart & Robert D. Tollison
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• Terrorism in Rational Choice Perspective
  by William F. Shughart
  edited by
• Individual choice and collective choice: an overview
  by Michael Reksulak & Laura Razzolini & William F. Shughart
  edited by
• What Did Economists Do? Euvoluntary, Voluntary, and Coercive Institutions for Collective Action
  by William F. Shughart II & Diana W. Thomas
• The Political Economy of the New Deal
  by Jim F. Couch & William F. Shughart III
• Richard Vedder and the Future of Higher Education Reform
  by Jayme S. Lemke & William F. Shughart II
• Intellectual Property Rights, Public Choice, Networks, and the New Age of Informal IP Regimes
  by William F. Shughart II & Diana W. Thomas
• Income-expenditure elasticities of less-healthy consumption goods
  by Adam Hoffer & Rejeana Gvillo & William Shughart & Michael Thomas
• Political Party Impacts on Direct Democracy: the 2015 Greek Austerity Referendum
  by Megan E. Hansen & William F. Shughart & Ryan M. Yonk
• Rest in peace, Bob Tollison
  by William F. Shughart
• Corruption and Voter Turnout: A Spatial Econometric Approach
  by Lacombe, Donald J. & Coats, R. Morris & Shughart II, William F. & Karahan, Gökhan
• A Personal Remembrance
  by William F. Shughart
• Going for the Gold: Property Rights and Athletic Effort in Transitional Economies
  by WILLIAM F. SHUGHART & ROBERT D. TOLLISON
• The broken bridge of public finance: majority rule, earmarked taxes and social engineering
  by William F. Shughart II & Josh T. Smith
• Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
  by William F. Shughart & Diana W. Thomas & Michael D. Thomas
• What Did Economists Do? Euvoluntary, Voluntary, and Coercive Institutions for Collective Action
  by William F. Shughart & Diana W. Thomas
• Regulation And Antitrust
  by William F. Shughart
  edited by
• James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock: A Half-Century On
  by William F. Shughart
  edited by
• Checks and Balances at the OK Corral: Restraining Leviathan
  by Atin Basuchoudhary & Michael Reksulak & William F. Shughart
  edited by
• Toll Bridge over Troubled Waters: New Deal Agriculture Programs in the South
  by Jim F. Couch & William F. Shughart
  edited by

editor of:

• Public Choice
  edited by WIlliam F. Shughart II
• The Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics
  edited by Thomas, Christopher R. & Shughart II, William F.
• The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust
  edited by McChesney, Fred S. & Shughart II, William F.
• The Elgar Companion to Public Choice
  edited by William F. Shughart II & Laura Razzolini
• The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition
  edited by William F. Shughart II & Laura Razzolini & Michael Reksulak
• The Economics of Budget Deficits
  edited by Charles K. Rowley & William F. Shughart II & Robert D. Tollison