E. C. Pasour, Jr. is an economist and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...

. He received a Ph.D. in agricultural

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 economics

Economics

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 from Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

 and spent a sabbatical at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 on a NSF

National Science Foundation

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 Fellowship.

He is the author of books oriented towards the Austrian school of economics.

He received a Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge

Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge

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 Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education.

Works

• Agriculture & the State: Market Processes & Bureaucracy, Independent Institute (1990). ISBN 0-945999-29-1.

His work also has been published in The American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Constitutional Political Economy

Constitutional Political Economy

Constitutional Political Economy is a journal on constitutional economics published by Springer since 1990. Originally triannual, it has been a quarterly since 1996....

, The Freeman

The Freeman

The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty is one of the oldest and most respected libertarian journals in the United States. It is published by the Foundation for Economic Education . It started as a digest sized monthly study journal; it currently appears 10 times per year and is a larger-sized magazine. FEE...

, the Journal of Libertarian Studies

Journal of Libertarian Studies

The Journal of Libertarian Studies is a scholarly journal published annually by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Lew Rockwell. It was established in the spring of 1977 by Murray Rothbard who also served as its editor until his death in 1995...

, Minerva

Minerva

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, National Tax Journal, Public Choice, Reason

Reason

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, the Review of Austrian Economics, the Southern Economics Journal, the Wall Street Journal and others.