Art Carden

Art Carden is the Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. He is also a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research and the Fraser Institute; a research fellow with the Independent Institute; a senior fellow with the Beacon Center of Tennessee; a senior research fellow with the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics; and co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal. He earned a B.S. and an M.A. from the University of Alabama and an A.M. and a Ph.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author (with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey) of Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich, Strangers with Candy: Observations from the Ordinary Business of Life, and (with Caleb S. Fuller) Mere Economics: Lessons for and from the Ordinary Business of Life.

Posts by Art Carden

Hobbesian Horrors and Walmart Wonders

Have you ever felt like the fate of the world was riding on one assignment? In the 1989 comedy Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, high school students Bill S. Preston (Alex Winter) and Ted Logan (Keanu Reeves) didn’t know it, but the fate of the world was riding on their report. Continue Reading...