New York University
Department of Economics
269 Mercer Street, 7^th Floor
New York, New York 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8932
Fax: (212) 995-4186

Email: Mario.Rizzo@econ.nyu.edu

NATIONALITY

U.S. Citizen

DATE OF BIRTH 6 July 1948

Ph.D. (Econ.), University of Chicago, 1977
M.A. (Econ.), University of Chicago, 1973
B.A. (Econ.), Fordham University, 1970

• Associate Professor of Economics, New York University.
• Codirector, Austrian Economics Program, New York University.
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, New York University (1988 -- 1990).
• Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, New York University Law School (spring, 1985).
• Research Fellow in Civil Liability, Yale Law School (spring, 1984).
• Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University (fall, 1978 – summer, 1984).
• Research Fellow in Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School (winter and spring, 1981).
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, New York University (1976-1978).

• Economic Analysis of Law
• Ethics and Economics
• Austrian Economics
• Methodological Problems of Economics
• Political Economy

1. "The Genetic-Causal Tradition and Modern Economic Theory" Kyklos, vol, 49 (1996).
2. "Time and Ignorance After Ten Years" in The Economics of Time and Ignorance (London: Routledge, 1996).
3. The Economics of Time and Ignorance (with Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr), 2^nd edition (London: Routledge, 1996). Translated into Japanese and Italian.
4. "Fundamental Issues in the Justification of Profits," in Profits and Morality (coedited with R. Cowan), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
5. "Hayek’s Four Tendencies Toward Equilibrium," Cultural Dynamics, Symposium Issue on the Work of F.A. Hayek, vol. III (1990).
6. "An Economic Framework for Statutory Interpretation," Law and Contemporary Problems, Special Symposium Issue, "Economists on the Beach," (autumn, 1987), with Frank Arnold.
7. "Fundamentals of Causation," Chicago-Kent Law Review, Symposium Issue on Causation in the Law of Torts, (1987).
8. "Causal Apportionment: Reply to the Critics," Journal of Legal Studies (January 1986), with Frank S. Arnold.
9. "Subjectivism, Uncertainty and Rules," in Israel M. Kirzner (ed.), Subjectivism, Intelligibility and Economic Understanding (New York: New York University Press, 1986) with Gerald O’Driscoll.
10. The Economics of Time and Ignorance (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985). With Gerald P. O’Driscoll.
11. "Rules versus Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Common Law," Cato Journal (winter, 1985).
12. "The Economics of Termination of Parental Rights: Santosky v. Kramer," Supreme Court Economic Review (1983). Edited at Law and Economics Center, Emory University and published by Macmillan.
13. "Mises and Lakatos: A Reformulation of Economic Methodology," in Israel M. Kirzner (ed.) Method, Process and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1982).
14. "The Economic Loss Problem: A Comment on Bishop," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (summer, 1982).
15. "A Theory of Economic Loss in the Law of Torts," Journal of Legal Studies (June, 1982).
16. "The Imputation Theory of Proximate Cause: An Economic Framework," Special Issue on Modern Tort Law, Georgia Law Review (summer, 1981).
17. "Causal Apportionment in Tort Law: An Economic Theory," Columbia Law Review (November, 1980). With Frank S. Arnold.
18. "The Mirage of Efficiency," Special Issue on Efficiency as a Legal Concern, Hofstra Law Review (summer, 1980).
19. "Law Amid Flux: The Economics of Negligence and Strict Liability in Tort," Journal of Legal Studies (March, 1980).
20. "Can There Be a Principle of Explanation in Common Law Decisions? A Comment on Priest," Journal of Legal Studies (March, 1980).
21. "Introduction" to Richard A. Epstein’s A Theory of Strict Liability: Toward a Reformulation of Tort Law (Cato Institute 1980).
22. "Economic Costs, Moral Costs or Retributive Justice: The Rationale of Criminal Law," in Charles M. Gray (ed.), The Cost of Crime (Sage Publications 1979).
23. "Disequilibrium and All That," in Mario Rizzo (ed.), Time, uncertainty and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1979).
24. "Uncertainty, Subjectivity and the Economic Analysis of Law, Ibid.
25. "The Effect of Crime on Residential Rents and Property Values," American Economist (spring 1979).
26. "The Cost of Crime to Victims: An Empirical Analysis," Journal of Legal Studies (January 1979).
27. "Praxeology and Econometrics: A Critique of Positivist Economics," in Louis M. Spadaro (ed.), Austrian Economics: New Directions and Unresolved Questions (Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews and McMeel 1978).
28. "Time Preference, Situational Determinism and Crime," in Randy Barnett and John Hagel, III (ed.), Assessing the Criminal: Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process (Cambridge: Ballinger Books 1977).

1. "Uniqueness, Complementarity and Tension: A Review of Israel Kirzner (ed.) Classics in Austrian Economics" in Advances in Austrian Economics (vol. 3, 1996).
2. "Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition" by Karen Vaughn (Cambridge University Press) in Journal Of Economic Literature (vol. 33, 1995).
3. "Intention, Plans and Practical Reason" by Michael Bratman (Harvard University Press) in Cultural Dynamics (vol. 2, 1989).

1. Profits and Morality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). Contributors include Jules Coleman, Robert Cooter, James Gordley, Peter Hammond, Israel Kirzner and Jan Narveson. (Coedited with R. Cowan).
2. Chicago-Kent Law Review. Symposium Issue on "Causation in the Law of Torts," 1987. Contributors included Jules Coleman, Robert Cooter, Richard Epstein and Mark Kelman.
3. Journal of Legal Studies, Special Symposium Issue on "Change in the Common Law: Legal and Economic Perspectives" (March, 1980). I commissioned, compiled and submitted for publication all of the articles in this issue. Published by the University of Chicago Press for the University of Chicago School of Law.
4. Time, Uncertainty and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1979). Contributors included Harold Demsetz, John Hicks, Harvey Leibenstein, and Leland Yeager.

1. "Foundations of the Market Economy," Routledge, Ltd. (London and New York). With Lawrence H. White. Thirteen books published.
2. "The Political Economy of the Austrian School," New York University Press. Four books published.
3. Advances in Austrian Economics (research annual). JAI Press. With Peter Boettke and Israel Kirzner. Five volumes published.

CURRENT PROJECTS

1. "Moral Dirigisme: The Economic Knowledge Problem in Ethics"
2. "The Evolutionary Ethics of Herbert Spencer"
3. "Legal Coherence and Economic Coordination"

Dozens of talks at major universities in the United States and Europe.

Fifteen conferences or symposia organized between 1977 and 1991.

RESEARCH GRANTS (Partial List)

Funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Smith-Richardson Foundation, Fred C. Koch Foundation, Pfizer, Inc., Chase Bank, Inc., and others.

Available on request.