Contact Information
Address: 6363 St. Charles Avenue
Miller Hall 325, Box 15
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Email: danieljdamico@gmail.com
Phone: 561-870-5941
Academic Appointment
The William Barnett Professor of Free Enterprise Studies
Assistant Professor of Economics
Joseph A. Butt S.J. College of Business
Loyola University New Orleans
Education
2004 - 2008 George Mason University
*PhD Economics (dissertation defense: May 2008)
*MA Economics (spring 2006)
2000 - 2004 Loyola University New Orleans
*BBA Economics and Marketing, Honors
2012 George Mason University Law and Economics Center Summer Institute
Awards, fellowships and honors
2012 William Barnett Professorship of Free Enterprise Studies
2011 Loyola Student Government: Outstanding Organizational Advisor -
Economics Club
2011 Gordon Tullock Paper Award for best paper by a scholar under 40
published in Public Choice
2010 Summer research grant awarded from the H.B. Earhart Foundation
2010 Loyola College of Business Faculty Award for Outstanding Research
2010 Ludwig Lachmann, visiting summer scholar at The Mercatus Center
2009 - present F.A. Hayek affiliated fellow, Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and
Economics at George Mason University
2009 Sir John M. Templeton essay contest, honorable mention
2009 MBA student association’s Faculty Member of the Year
2008 Institute for Humane Studies summer research fellowship
2008 Israel M. Kirzner Award for best dissertation in Austrian Economics
2007 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Prize
2007 - 2008 Ciocca Dissertation Fellowship with The Mercatus Center
2007, 2005, 2004 Ludwig von Mises Institute summer fellow
2004 - 2006 3 H. B. Earhart Fellowships
2006 Richard E. Fox Prize for best paper
2005 Mercatus graduate student summer fellowship
Professional biographical summary:
Daniel J. D’Amico completed his economics Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2008 with field examinations in Constitutional Political Economy and Austrian Economics. His doctoral dissertation, “The Imprisoner’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment,” was awarded the Israel M. Kirzner Award for best dissertation in Austrian Economics by the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. In 2011 his paper, “The Prison in Economics: Private and Public Incarceration in Ancient Greece,” was awarded the Gordon Tullock Prize for best paper published in Public Choice by a scholar under 40.
Daniel’s research has been published in a variety of scholarly outlets including Public Choice, Advances in Austrian Economics, The Journal of Private Enterprise, The Review of Austrian Economics, and the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics. He sits on the editorial board of Studies in Emergent Order and is on the executive committee for the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. Daniel is an affiliated scholar with the Molinari Institute and the workshop in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at George Mason University. Daniel delivers summer lectures and seminars for several educational outreach organizations including the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.
Daniel is the William Barnett Professor of Free Enterprise Studies and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans where he has received awards for teaching, research and service. He is also the faculty advisor for the Loyola Economics Club.
Daniel’s current research is focused upon applying insights from Austrian Economics, Public Choice Theory and New Institutional Economics to understand the processes of social change surrounding punishment and incarceration through history and in the United States today.
Daniel adheres to the fundamental belief that ideas matter.
