Curriculum Vitae
Download CV as PDF Daniel J. D’Amico Address: 10211 Heron Pond Terrace Burke, Virginia 22015 Email: danieljdamico@gmail.com Phone: 561-870-5941 Education 2004 - Present George Mason University *PhD Economics (scheduled dissertation defense May 2008) *MA Economics (spring 2006) 2000 - 2004 Loyola University New Orleans *BBA Economics and Marketing, Honors Fields Comprehensive exams: Constitutional political economy and Austrian Economics Areas of research: Criminal justice, law and economics, economic history, economics of culture, disaster recovery, and social networks Dissertation “The Imprisoner’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of the Criminal Justice System” If society were a civilization of angels there would be no need for rules. If men were governed by God, all knowing and benevolent, then the rules would be enforced perfectly. Society is comprised of men governed by other men plagued by both imperfect knowledge and impure incentives. What punishment theorists have termed “proportionality”-- where the response to crime is well-suited to the crime itself -- I frame as a problem of economic coordination. Providing criminal justice is a social coordination problem that must confront both knowledge and incentives simultaneously. This dissertation begins by exposing a shortcoming of criminal justice theories, they assume the omniscience and benevolence of central planners. Next I compare market-driven, restitution-based criminal justice with today's criminal justice on two margins: their abilities to overcome Hayekian knowledge problems and their abilities to avoid Public Choice-styled rent-seeking and capture. Finally, a historic case study of ancient Greece is presented as a natural experiment to witness restitution against retribution-based criminal justice in practice. Awards, fellowships, honors 2007 - 2008 Ciocca Dissertation Fellowship with the Mercatus Center 2007, 2005, 2004 Ludwig von Miss Institute summer fellow 2004 - 2006 3 H. B. Earhart Fellowships 2006 Richard E. Fox Prize for best paper 2005 Mercatus graduate student summer fellowship Publications 1. Articles D’Amico, Daniel J. (forthcoming). “The Needle is Mightier than the Sword: Markets versus Prohibition in Prison Tattoos,” The Journal of Private Enterprise. D’Amico, Daniel J. and Daniel B. Klein (2007). “The Internet and the Structure of Discourse: The Websites of Economics at Harvard and George Mason,” Econ Journal Watch. Vol. 4, No. 2 pp. 272 - 283. D’Amico, Dan and Walter Block (2007). “A Legal and Economic Analysis of Graffiti,” Humanomics. Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 29 - 38. 2. Book Reviews Book Review (2007). “Changing of the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime edited by Alexander Tabarrok,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2. Book Review (2005). “The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age by Daniel J. Solove,” Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 537 - 541. 3. Popular Writings “The Breadth and Scope of Libertarianism and the Role of Student Activism,” LewRockwell.com, 04-12-05. “Deliver us From Student Government,” Mises Daily Article, 07-14-04 “That Taco Bell Boycott,” Mises Daily Article, 10-04-04 Work in progress “The Day the Music Lived: How New Orleans Garage Rock Survived Katrina” (under review at Social Problems) “Solon, the bringer of legislation rather than law: Incarceration for private interest in Ancient Greece” “Did state provided law and order cause development in Athens?” “Why do political theorists and historians describe feuds differently?” “Ex-ante v. Ex-post law enforcement: Why Cybercrime is so hard to enforce” “Blacks and Whites behind bars: an emergent explanation for racial disparity in American prisons.” Presentations, conferences Presenting the paper “The Internet and the Structure of Discourse: The Websites of Economists at Harvard and George Mason,” at the Southern Economics Association Meeting 2007 Presenting the paper “The Day the Music Lived: How New Orleans Garage Rock Survived Katrina,” at the Southern Economics Association Meeting 2007 Will be attending Liberty Fund Conference on Francois Furet, December 2007 Presented the paper “Solon, the bringer of legislation rather than law: Incarceration for private interest in Ancient Greece” at the Association for Private Enterprise Education annual meeting 2007 Presented working papers: “Ex-ante v. Ex-post law enforcement: Why Cybercrime is so hard to enforce” “Solon, the bringer of legislation rather than law: Incarceration for private interest in Ancient Greece” “The Day the Music Lived: How New Orleans Garage Rock Survived Katrina” at The Mercatus Center Graduate Student Paper Workshop 2004 - 2007 Presented the paper “Blacks and Whites Behind Bars: An emergent explanation of race disparity in American prisons,” at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2005 Presented guest lecture to Loyola University New Orleans student libertarian association, “The Breadth and Scope of Libertarianism and the Role of Student Activism” Research Experience 2006 The Mercatus Center: Crises and Response in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina -research assistant to Emily Chamlee-Wright -conducted and cataloged field research interviews -compiled research for scholarly publications 2002 – 2004 Loyola University New Orleans, College of Business Administration -research assistant to Walter Block -compiled research for scholarly publications -drafted book proposals and maintained communication with publishers Teaching Experience Spring 2007 Instructor, Economics 311-- Intermediate Macroeconomics -designed course syllabus, assignments, and lectures -scored above department and university on all margins of teacher evaluation survey -syllabus and class notes available on http://www.danieljdamico.com References Peter J. Boettke (dissertation chair) Department of Economics, George Mason University MSN 3G4 GMU Fairfax, VA 22030 - 4444 Telephone: 703-993-1147, 1149 Email: pboettke@gmu.edu Peter T. Leeson Department of Economics, George Mason University Enterprise 326 MSN 3G4 GMU Fairfax, VA 22030 – 4444 Telephone: 703-993-1124 Email: pleeson@gmu.edu Virgil Storr The Mercatus Center at George Mason University 1714 Connecticut Ave, NW Washington, DC 20009 Telephone: 202-986-0033 Email: vstorr@gmu.edu CV and Resume_files/My%20CV-1.pdfmailto:danieljdamico@gmail.comhttp://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/http://business.loyno.edu/economics/index.htmlhttp://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/DAmicoKleinEconomicsInPracticeMay2007.pdfhttp://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/damico.pdfhttp://austrianaddiction.rationalmind.net/digital%20person%202.pdfhttp://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/damico1.htmlhttp://www.mises.org/story/1563http://www.mises.org/story/1630http://www.etnpconferences.net/sea/sea1107/User/Program.php?TimeSlot=1#Session4http://www.etnpconferences.net/sea/sea1107/User/Program.php?TimeSlot=4#Session6http://www.etnpconferences.net/apee/apee2007/User/ProgramParticipantSessions.php?AuthorID=394http://www.mises.org/upcomingstory.aspx?control=67http://danieljdamico.com/http://economics.gmu.edu/pboettke/mailto:pboettke@gmu.eduhttp://www.peterleeson.com/mailto:pleeson@gmu.eduhttp://www.ihika.org/ki/mailto:vstorr@gmu.edushapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12shapeimage_3_link_13shapeimage_3_link_14shapeimage_3_link_15shapeimage_3_link_16shapeimage_3_link_17shapeimage_3_link_18shapeimage_3_link_19shapeimage_3_link_20