Paul Rubin

Rubin received his B.A. with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1963 and his Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University in 1970, with a thesis entitled "A theoretical model of the diversification decision of the firm".[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/920980961 WorldCat item entry]{{cite web | url=http://economics.emory.edu/home/documents/Curriculum_Vitae/CV-Rubinpaul.pdf | title=Paul H. Rubin Curriculum Vitae | accessdate=20 February 2016}}

Rubin served on the faculty of the University of Georgia from 1968 to 1982. For one year (1982–83) he was a professor at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He held senior positions on the President's Council of Economic Advisors in 1981-82 and at the Federal Trade Commission, 1983–85. From 1985 to 1989, he was an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School. From 1985 to 1987, he was the chief economist at the Consumer Product Safety Commission.{{cite web | url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/11/silent-recall | title=Silent Recall | work=Mother Jones | date=November–December 1998 | accessdate=21 February 2016 | author=Felcher, Marla}} From 1987 to 1991 he was vice-president of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants in Washington, D.C. He first joined the faculty of Emory in 1991, and became the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of economics there in 2003. From 1999 to 2009 he served as a professor of Economics and Law at Emory, and as the Acting Chair of the Economics department there for one year (1993–94).

Rubin's areas of research included: the economics of franchising; determinants of Congressional voting; theoretical models of the evolution of law; Folk economics; the effect of tort reform and capital punishment on death rates;{{cite journal|last1=Dezhbakhsh|first1=H.|title=Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data|journal=American Law and Economics Association|date=1 August 2003|volume=5|issue=2|pages=344–376|doi=10.1093/aler/ahg021|url=http://cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DezRubShepDeterFinal.pdf}}{{cite web | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-deters-murders-studies-say/2/ | title=Death Penalty Deters Murders, Studies Say | work=CBS News | date=11 June 2007 | accessdate=29 June 2016 | author=Alfano, Sean}} and the costs and benefits of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. He has also authored a survey article on the economics of the United States Bill of Rights.{{cite web | url=http://economics.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/Rubinpaul.html | title=Paul Rubin | work=Emory University | accessdate=20 February 2016}} In a 2004 study, he argued that the government's encouragement of doctors and patients to use fewer antibiotics and to increase the required number of patients in antibiotic clinical trials, which the government did in an effort to reduce antibiotic resistance, was misguided. He argued that this was the case because these decisions have driven many pharmaceutical companies away from making antibiotics because it is now too expensive to do so.{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/2004/08/18/cz_ic_0818beltway.html | title=Uncle Sam's Malpractice | work=Forbes | date=18 August 2004 | accessdate=21 February 2016 | author=Carnahan, Ira}}{{cite web | url=http://www.bna.com/antibiotics-development-down-b17179924198/ | title=Antibiotics Development Down, Congress, FDA Catch Up | work=Bloomberg BNA | date=19 March 2015 | accessdate=21 February 2016 | author=Aquino, John T.}} He has also written about evolutionary economics, arguing that different fiscal policies proposed by Democrats and Republicans in part result from different perceptions of human nature by the two parties.{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/2013/09/15/inside_the_conservative_brain_what_explains_their_wiring/ | title=Inside the conservative brain: What explains their wiring? | work=Salon | date=15 September 2015 | accessdate=21 February 2016 | author=Tuschman, Avi}} He has written about the evolutionary basis for distrust of markets. His most recent book argues that markets are actually cooperative, and that competition is less important than cooperation in economics.

• A Student's Guide to Socialism: How It Will Trash Your Lives, Bombardier Books, 2020
• The Capitalism Paradox: How Cooperation Enables Free Market Competition, Bombardier Books, 2019
• The evolution of efficient common law E. Elgar, 2007
• Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, Rutgers University Press, 2002 (Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004) [http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Darwinian+Politics%3A+The+Evolutionary+Origin+of+Freedom WorldCat book record]
• (with Thomas M Lenard; Privacy and the commercial use of personal information Kluwer, 2002
• Managing business transactions : controlling the cost of coordinating, communicating, and decision making Free Press, 1990
• Business firms and the common law : the evolution of efficient rules Prager, 1983

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Category:21st-century American economists

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