Dean Stansel is a Research Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University's Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom (formerly O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom) in the Cox School of Business in Dallas, TX. Previously, he served as an economics professor at Florida Gulf Coast University for 11 years and at Eastern New Mexico University for two years. He earned a B.A. in Economics (with honors) and Political Science from Wake Forest University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in 2002. Prior to entering academia, Stansel worked for seven years at the Cato Institute, where he authored (or coauthored) more than 60 publications on fiscal policy issues, including op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as the first four editions of Cato’s biennial “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors.”. He also appeared on television and radio and testified before Congress and several state legislatures. His academic research has focused on the fiscal and economic outcomes of competition between local governments, the determinants of state fiscal crises, the effects (and causes) of differences in economic freedom at the state and local level, and a variety of other issues in the areas of public economics and urban economics. Stansel’s academic publications have appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Public Finance Review, Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy, Cato Journal, and Review of Austrian Economics. It has been cited in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) awarded him second place in the 2010 Policy Communicators Contest for his paper entitled “Why Some Cities Are Growing and Others Shrinking.” In 2011, Stansel was selected by the Economic Freedom Project to help publicize the findings of the Economic Freedom of the World report, the Economic Freedom of North America report, and the virtues of economic freedom in general through a variety of media interviews, and since then has been a frequent guest on a variety of talk radio shows. In 2013, he published the first ever local index of economic freedom (a new version of which was published in 2019) and was chosen to be the primary author of the annual Economic Freedom of North America report. Stansel and his wife, Robin (who met while both were working at the Cato Institute), live in Dallas, Texas. They have two children who they homeschool.
My CV
Nov. 2012 profile in local newspaper
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