Daniel J. Smith

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