Christopher Coyne

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Christopher Coyne is an Assistant Professor of Economics at West Virginia University. He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. In 2008, he was named the Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics. Prior to moving to West Virginia University in 2007, Coyne was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hampden-Sydney College.

Economist Christopher Coyne

[edit] Education

After graduating in 1999 with a B.S. from Manhattan College, Coyne received his M.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) in Economics from George Mason University, where he studied with Peter Boettke and Tyler Cowen.

[edit] Research

Coyne has over 60 publications including academic journal articles, book chapters, policy papers, and book reviews. His primary areas of research include Austrian economics, economic development, and political economy.

His first book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, was published by Stanford University Press in November of 2007. After War employs the tools of economics to analyze the ability of the U.S. to export democracy abroad. The central argument is that continued efforts to export democracy through military occupation and reconstruction are more likely to fail than to succeed due to an array of constraints facing occupiers and policymakers. In the book, Coyne contends that failure is due to the inability of foreign governments to centrally plan the complex array of institutions which underpin liberal democracy. Coyne provides a new vision of U.S. foreign policy including principled nonintervention and a commitment to free trade in goods, ideas and cultural products. He presented his book at The CATO Institute in November 2007¹.