Antony Davies (born 4 April 1965) is an American economist, speaker, and author. He is an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University and the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.

Antony Davies
Born
NationalityAmerican, British
Academic career
FieldEconomics
Econometrics
InstitutionFoundation for Economic Education
West Virginia University
Duquesne University
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics
Free Market
Alma materSaint Vincent College
University at Albany

Early life and education

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Davies was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Alan and Margaret Davies. He was raised in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1983.[1] Starting at an early age, he acted with the Community Theatre League.[2] He graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in economics with minors in mathematics and philosophy from Saint Vincent College in 1987.[3]

In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in economics from the University at Albany in Albany, New York, where he studied under Kajal Lahiri.[4] His Ph.D. thesis addressed analysis of multi-dimensional panel data in econometrics, and it received the Distinguished Dissertation Award.[4][5][6]

Professional history

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While a college student, he founded Paragon Software with Mark E. Seremet. Davies's first faculty appointment was at West Virginia Wesleyan College, after which he moved on to West Virginia University where he taught econometrics. During the dot-com era, he left academia to serve as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Analytics Officer at Parabon Computation, where he was co-inventor on a patent for generating supercomputing power from idle Internet-connected computers.[7] In 2001, he joined the faculty at Duquesne University where he helped design the economics major.[8]

In 2006, he co-founded an Internet discovery firm, Repliqa, that was purchased by indiePub Entertainment.[9] In 2007, he was named a Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar and, in 2015, a Strata Research Fellow.[10] He conducts research on the economic effects of government policy. As a Mercatus Scholar, Davies has given lectures on economic policy topics for staff at the U.S. House of Representatives.[11]

Starting in 2012, he produced a series of videos on economics and statistics for the Institute for Humane Studies, the Foundation for Economic Education, and Certell.[12][13] In 2015, he worked as associate producer for the Moving Picture Institute on their video series, FI$H: How An Economy Grows.[14] Davies is a long-time faculty member at the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.[15]

Davies has published op-eds in newspapers and magazines throughout the country including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, and CNN.com.[16] In addition, Davies co-authors a regular monthly column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and has co-authored a college-level economics text published by Cognella.[17] He is also a regular commentator on The Blaze TV.[18][19][20]

Books

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  • LeBar, M., A. Davies, D. Schmidtz, eds., 2015. Equality and Public Policy, Cambridge University Press. [ISBN missing]
  • Tosun, M., P. Yakovlev, and A. Davies, 2015. Principles of Microeconomics, Cognella Publishing. [ISBN missing]
  • Davies, A. and J.R. Harrigan, 2020. Cooperation and Coercion: How busybodies became busybullies and what that means for economics and politics. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. {ISBN 978-1610171564}

References

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  1. ^ "Alumni Emails – St. John Neumann Regional Academy". sjnra.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  2. ^ "History | Community Theatre League – Williamsport PA Plays, Musicals, Concerts, Comedy, Family Entertainment, Student Productions, Children's Theatre, Broadway, Theater". Archived from the original on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 2015-06-24.
  3. ^ "Daniel Finn, Antony Davies Final Speakers in Student Affairs Series April 7". stvincent.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  4. ^ a b "List of Graduated Students and Their Dissertations". albany.edu.
  5. ^ "Google Scholar Citations". google.com.
  6. ^ "Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models". Cambridge University Press. 11 February 2010.
  7. ^ U.S. Patent No. 6,463,457 Archived 2018-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, System and Method for the Establishment and Utilization of Networked Idle Computational Power.
  8. ^ "Antony Davies, Ph.D. – Palumbo Donahue School of Business – Duquesne University". duq.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11.
  9. ^ "Repliqa.com Secures Financing – Presents at ETRE 2006". PRWeb. 29 September 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2006.
  10. ^ "Strata Upcoming Events – Speaker Series: Antony Davies". strata.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-15.
  11. ^ "Tax Reform: Simplification is a Good Policy". mercatus.org. 2013-10-07.
  12. ^ "Learn Liberty – Antony Davies". Learn Liberty. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
  13. ^ "Antony Davies – Certell". YouTube.
  14. ^ "Fi$h: How An Economy Grows". thempi.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
  15. ^ "Antony Davies". theihs.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10.
  16. ^ "Antony Davies, Ph.D. – Press". antolin-davies.com.
  17. ^ "Search – Tribune-Review". triblive.com.
  18. ^ "Antony Davies Discusses Bank Bailouts on The Blaze". mercatus.org. 2013-11-21.
  19. ^ "Antony Davies Discusses Big Business Working with Big Government on The Blaze". mercatus.org. 2013-01-29.
  20. ^ "Antony Davies Discusses the Idea of the $1 Trillion Coin on The Blaze". mercatus.org. 2013-01-14.
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