Bringing Economics, Philosophy, Theology, and Politics together.
Bringing Economics, Philosophy, Theology, and Politics together.
Paul Mueller is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University. Previously, Dr. Mueller taught at The King’s College in New York City.
His academic work has appeared in many journals including The Adam Smith Review, The Review of Austrian Economics, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, The Journal of Private Enterprise, and The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is also the author of Ten Years Later: Why the Conventional Wisdom about the 2008 Financial Crisis is Still Wrong with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dr. Mueller’s popular writing has appeared in USA Today and Fox News, as well as the Intercollegiate Review, Christian History, Adam Smith Works, and Religion and Liberty, among others.
Dr. Mueller has given talks and led colloquia for a variety of organizations including Liberty Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
Dr. Mueller is also a Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Religious Liberty in the States project at the Center for Culture, Religion, and Democracy. He owns and operates a bed and breakfast (The Abbey) in Leadville, Colorado where he lives with his wife and six children.
American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Culture, Religion, and Democracy (CRCD)
Research Fellow & Associate Director of Religious Liberty in the States
EMPLOYMENT
Senior Research Fellow, AIER Aug. 2023 - Present
Research Fellow, CRCD May 2023 - Present
Associate Professor of Economics, The King’s College Aug. 2020 - July 2023
Assistant Professor of Economics, The King’s College Aug. 2015 – Aug. 2020
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics George Mason University 2015
M.A. in Economics George Mason University 2013
B.S. in Economics Hillsdale College 2009
B.S. in Political Science Hillsdale College 2009
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Books
Journal Articles
“Opposing Sketches of the Clergy as Literati during the Scottish Enlightenment: Hugh Blair and John Witherspoon” Fiorito, L., Scheall, S. and Suprinyak, C.E. (Ed.) Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 2023, Vol. 41A: 99-117.
“Adam Smith on Moral Judgment: Why People Tend to Make Better Judgments Within Liberal Institutions” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184: 813-825
“Public and Private Institutions in the Federal Reserve” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2016, 31(3) Fall: 49-68
“Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator” Econ Journal Watch, 2016, 13(2): 312-318
“The Federal Reserve’s Floor System: Immediate Gain for Remote Pain?” w/ Joshua
Wojnilower, Journal of Private Enterprise, 2016, 31(2): 15-40
“Adam Smith's Views on Consumption and Happiness,” Adam Smith Review, 2014,
Volume 8, 277-289
“Adam Smith, Politics, and Natural Liberty,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2014, 29(3): 119-134
“An Austrian View of Expectations and Business Cycles,” Review of Austrian Economics, 2014, 27(2): 199-214
“The Theory of Interpretive Frameworks: Ceteris Non Paribus,” Quarterly Review of
Austrian Economics, 2013, 16(3): 331-352
Book Reviews
Gambling with Other People’s Money by Russell Roberts, Independent Review, 2019, 24(2): 108.
The Infidel and the Professor by Dennis Rasmussen, Independent Review, 2018, 23(2): 316.
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy ed. by Ryan Hanley, EH.Net, 2016.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russell Roberts, Faith and Economics, 2015, 66: 182-187