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.