Paul H. Rubin, Ph.D., Senior Expert

Paul H. Rubin is a Senior Expert at Empiris LLC and the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law in the Economics Department and School of Law at Emory University.

In addition, Professor Rubin serves as editor-in-chief of Managerial and Decision Economics. He is a Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute and the Progress and Freedom Foundation and on the Board of Advisors of the Independent Institute, an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Fellow of the Public Choice Society and former Vice President of the Southern Economics Association. Previously, Professor Rubin was Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, Chief Economist at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Director of Advertising Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, and Vice-President of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc., a litigation consulting firm in Washington. He has taught economics at the University of Georgia, City University of New York, VPI, and law and economics at George Washington University Law School. He has consulted widely on litigation related matters, and has addressed numerous business, professional, policy and academic audiences. He has testified three times before Congress, and has served as an advisor on tort issues to the Congressional Budget Office.

Professor Rubin has written or edited several books, and has published over one hundred and fifty articles and chapters on economics, law, and regulation, including serveral articles in the Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers. His areas of research interest include law and economics, industrial organization, transaction cost economics, government and business, public choice, regulation and price theory, and evolution and economics. His work has been cited in the professional literature over 2200 times.

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