I was born in Demarest, New Jersey in 1982 but my family moved to South Florida when I was very young. I grew up in Boca Raton and attended Pope John Paul II High School.


I went to Loyola University New Orleans from 2000 - 2004, double majoring in economics and marketing. After completing an honors thesis and graduating with a Bachelors of Business Administration, I entered the Economics Ph.D. program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.


I defended my dissertation, “The Imprisoner’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment,” in May of 2008. I have since returned to New Orleans as an Assistant Professor of Economics back at my alma mater Loyola.


Four words to describe myself, “I think ideas matter.”


I like music, golf, bowling, collecting vinyl, photography, film and other cool stuff.

 

About Me

Name: Daniel J. D’Amico

Age: 28

Birthday: August 31, 1982

Email: danieljdamico@gmail.com





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

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


Awards, fellowships and honors

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 bio 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


Daniel’s research has been published in a variety of scholarly outlets including Public Choice, Advances in Austrian Economics, The Journal of Private Enterprise, 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 Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Molinari Institute, the workshop in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at George Mason University and the INWARD Study Center on Urban Creativity at Sapienza University in Rome.


Daniel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans where he has received awards for teaching, research and service. His current research is focused upon applying insights from various political economy perspectives including Austrian Economics, Public Choice Theory and New Institutional Economics to understand the processes of social change as they occur surrounding punishment and incarceration throughout history and in the United States today.


Daniel adheres to the fundamental belief that ideas matter.





 
 
 
 



“[W]hat is wrong with these policy debates is precisely that they do not dare to be utopian enough. that is, they confine their attention to minor modifications in the established and badly rusted out political machinery instead of trying to imagine the substitution of a fundamentally different approach altogether. What is needed is a radical perspective, both in addition to a scientific perspective and as a logical consequence of it. We need to locate the root cause of the social maladies we have endured and stop combating their symptoms.”


(National Economic Planning: What is Left?, p. 16).

--Don Lavoie