Diana Weinert Thomas, PhD

Department

Economics and Finance

Position

Professor

Books

• Studies in Public Choice
  Thomas Diana W., The Fiscal Squeeze [Book Chapter] 2021
• Studies in Public Choice
  Hebert David J., Introduction [Book Chapter] 2021
• The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice : Volume 1
  Shughart William F., INTEREST GROUPS AND REGULATORY CAPTURE [Book Chapter] 2019
• Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking
  Shughart W. F.,II, Regulatory Rent Seeking [Book Chapter] 2014

Publications

• Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
  Thomas Diana Weinert, The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the market for childcare 2022
• Kyklos
  Shughart William F., Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
  73:3, p. 371 - 391 2020
• Public Choice
  Thomas Diana W., Behavioral symmetry, rent seeking, and the Republic of Science
  183:3-4, p. 443 - 459 2020
• Journal of Private Enterprise
  Thomas Diana W., The law of the taxi
  35:3, p. 49 - 62 2020
• Public Choice
  Thomas Diana W., Regressive effects of regulation
  180:1-2 2019
• SSRN Electronic Journal
  Gorry Devon, Regulation and the Cost of Child Care
  49 (141), p. 4138 - 4147 2019
• SSRN Electronic Journal
  Thomas Diana Weinert, Regulating Away Competition: The Effect of Regulation on Entrepreneurship and Employment 2019
• SSRN Electronic Journal
  Blau Benjamin M., Economic Freedom and the Stability of Stock Prices: A Cross-Country Analysis
  41, p. 182 - 196 2019
• SSRN Electronic Journal
  Thomas Diana Weinert, In and Out of the Commons - Extractive Public Entrepreneurship and the Aggie Blue Bikes Program 2019
• Review of Austrian Economics
  Thomas Diana W., A process perspective on regulation
  31:4, p. 395 - 402 2018
• Public Choice
  Bailey James B., Regressive effects of regulation on wages, p. 1 - 13 2018
• Journal of Regulatory Economics
  Bailey James B., Regulating away competition
  52:3, p. 237 - 254 2017
• Applied Economics
  Gorry Devon, Regulation and the Cost of Childcare
  49:41, p. 4138 - 4147 2017
• Public Choice
  Thomas Diana Weinert, Review of 'Bootleggers and Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam Smith and Bruce Yandle, 2014'
  163:3-4, p. 401 - 403 2015
• Supreme Court Economic Review
  Shughart William F., Intellectual Property Rights, Public Choice, Networks, and the New Age of Informal IP Regimes
  23:1, p. 169 - 192 2015
• Journal of International Money and Finance
  Blau Benjamin M., Economic Freedom and the Stability of Stock Prices: A Cross-Country Analysis
  41, p. 182 - 196 2014
• Southern Economic Journal
  Shughart II William F., What did Economists do? Euvoluntary, Voluntary, and Coercive Institutions for Collective Action
  80:4, p. 926 - 937 2014
• Journal of Banking and Finance
  Blau Benjamin M., Corporate lobbying, political connections, and the bailout of banks
  37:8, p. 3007 - 3017 2013
• Public Choice
  Martin Adam, Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system
  154:1, p. 21 - 37 2013
• Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
  Thomas Diana W., The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker
  1:1, p. 84 - 95 2012
• Independent Review
  Simmons Randy T., Bootleggers, Baptists, and political entrepreneurs key players in the rational game and morality play of regulatory politics
  15:3, p. 367 - 381 2011
• Public Choice
  Thomas Diana W., Deregulation despite transitional gains
  140:3-4, p. 329 - 340 2009

Presentations

• Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas, The Fiscal Squeeze: State Budgets between Fiscal Illusion, Fiscal Commons, and the Tyranny of Experts 2019
• Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas, Wagnerian Political Economy: The Next Generation 2018
• Diana W. Thomas, Michael Munger's Tomorrow 3.0 2018
• The Treason of Rules, Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Charleson, SC 2018
• Regressive Effects of Regulation on Wages, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL 2017
• The Fiscal Squeeze, Texas Tech University, Economics Research Seminar 2017
• Regressive Effects of Regulation on Wages 2017
• Between Ignorance and Irrationality - What Political Institutions can Tell Us about the True Culprit in Government Failure Theory 2016
• Panelist, Regulation of Industry, Employment, and Entrepreneurship. Public Choice Society Annual Meeting 2015
• Panelist, The Law of the Taxi: Informal Property Rights Institutions Among Peruvian Taxi Drivers. Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2014
• Panelist: ADR Volatility and Regulation. Southern Economic Association Annual Metting, Atlanta, GA 2014
• Markets for Blood. Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes, New York University 2014
• Expert Witness, The Effects of Regulation on Low-Income Households 2013
• Ignorance, Irrationality and Intransitivity, Market vs. Government Failure and Institutions and Economic Performance. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar 2013
• America is #18, The Isms and Is Rational Ignorance and Oxymoron. Foundation for Economic Education Summer Seminar-Anything Peaceful 2013
• Bootleggers and Baptists, Government vs. Governance and Austrian Macro: The Boom and Bust Cycle. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar 2012
• Ignorance, Irrationality, and Intransitivity, Market vs. Government Failure and Government vs. Governance. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar- Liberty and Current Issues 2012
• Bootleggers and Baptists, Austrian Economics, and Political Entrepreneurship. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar 2011
• Spontaneous Order and the Market Process, Politics without Romance, and Economic Theories of Regulation. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar. 2010