Daniel J. Smith
Adjunct Professor of Management
Subject Areas
Strategy and Business Economics
Biography
Biography
Daniel J. Smith is the Director of the Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics at the Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University. Dan also is an Adjunct Professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He is the co-author of Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions (Cambridge University Press), written with Peter J. Boettke and Alexander W. Salter, and The Political Economy of Public Pensions (Cambridge University Press), written with Eileen Norcross. Smith has published over one-hundred popular publications in national and regional outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and the Tennessean. Daniel received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and a B.B.A. in economics and finance from Northwood University.
Education
B.B.A., Economics, Banking & Finance, and Business Management, Northwood University, 2007
M.A., Economics, George Mason University, 2009
Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University, 2011