Andrew Young, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Students, Research Fellow and Professor of Economics

Dr. Andrew Young, Director of Graduate Students and Research Fellow

Andrew Young is the director of graduate students and a research fellow at the Free Market Institute. He is also a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University.

Prof. Young is a co-editor of the journal Contemporary Economic Policy and an associate editor for the Southern Economic Journal. He earned his B.A. in economics from the College of the Holy Cross and his Ph.D. in economics from Emory University. Prior to joining Texas Tech University, he taught economics at West Virginia University, University of Mississippi and Emory University.

Prof. Young is the author of more than 60 scholarly articles and book chapters. His primary fields of research are constitutional political economy, institutional economics, and economic development. His recent research focuses on the political economy of late antiquity and medieval Europe. For more information about Prof. Young, please visit www.AndrewTYoung.com.

Higgins, M. J.,, Lacombe, D., Sell, B., & Young, A. T. (Forthcoming). Evaluating the Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth. Small Business Economics.

Bologna Pavlik, J. & Young, A. T. (Forthcoming). Medieval European Traditions in Representation and State Capacity Today. Economics of Governance.

Young, A. T. (2019). How Austrians can Contribute to Constitutional Political Economy (and Why They Should). Review of Austrian Economics, 32: 281-293.

Dove, J. A. & Young, A. T. (2019). US State Consitutional Entrenchment and Default in the 19th Century. Journal of Institutional Economics, 15(6): 963-982.

Bologna Pavlik, J. & Young, A. T. (2019). Did Technology Transfer More Rapidly East-West than North-South? European Economic Review, 119: 216-235.

Bologna Pavlik, J. & Young, A. T. (Working Paper). The Legacy of Representation in Medieval Europe for Incomes and Institutions Today.

Grier, K., Grier, R., & Young, A. T. (Working Paper). The Causal Effects of Rule of Law and Property Rights on Fiscal Capacity.

Tarabar, D. & Young, A. T. (Working Paper). What Constitutes a Constitutional Amendment Culture?

Young, A. T. (Working Paper). Carolingians at the Doorstep? The Maturing Limited Access Order of Early Medieval Europe.