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Robert A. Lawson
Clinical Professor in Economics and Director, Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University
Robert A. Lawson is Clinical Professor in Economics, Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom, and Director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He earned his B.S. in economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University. A Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, he has numerous professional publications in journals such as Public Choice, Cato Journal, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and the European Journal of Political Economy. Prof. Lawson has served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Authored by Robert A. Lawson
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Ryan Murphy, Matanda Abubaker, Andrea Celico, Alexander C.R. Hammond, Fred McMahon and Martin Rode
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall, Ryan Murphy, Simeon Djankov and Fred McMahon
| By: Robert A. Lawson
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall, Ryan Murphy, Justin T. Callais, Rosemarie Fike, Vincent Geloso, Nijdar S. Khalid, Fred McMahon and Martin van Staden
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Canada lags behind U.S. in economic freedom, China threatens Hong Kong’s top rank in annual report
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall, Ryan Murphy, Niclas Berggren, Fred McMahon and Therese Nilsson
October 02, 2019 | By: Robert A. Lawson
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Hong Kong, Singapore again lead world in economic freedom—U.S. back in top 5 most-free countries
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall, Ryan Murphy, Daniel L. Bennett, Fred McMahon, Rosemarie Fike and Boris Nikolaev
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall, Ryan Murphy, Pál Czeglédi, Rosemarie Fike, Fred McMahon and Carlos Newland
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Canada falls out of top five in international economic freedom ranking; now tied with U.S. at 11th
| By: James Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall, Ryan Murphy, Rosemarie Fike, Richard J. Grant, Fred McMahon, Indra de Soysa and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati