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3/3/08

SLU Econ Prof Awarded Grant To Write Book On 'Modern Family'

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz has been awarded a $20,000 Fellowship Research Grant from the Earhart Foundation to support his work on a book he is writing, titled Two Worlds at Once: A Classical Liberal Approach to the Evolution of the Modern Family.

Horwitz has been undertaking scholarly study of the family as a social institution for at least a decade, with several articles on the topic having been published in journals. He says that in the course of conducting research, he has noted "a real paucity of scholarship on the place of the family within classical liberal and libertarian political philosophy," and the forthcoming book is aimed at filling that gap. Horwitz plans to work on the book during the summer.

Among the purposes of the Earhart Foundation's Fellowship Research Grant Program is the support of scholars to produce works "which will either contribute to the education of interested members of the public, or constitute an advance in the state of available knowledge."

Horwitz is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from George Mason University, and has been on the University's faculty since 1989. A specialist in monetary theory and history, macroeconomics and political economy, he is the author of the 1992 book Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order and the 2000 book Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective. Horwitz delivered the 1999 Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecture, and has published extensively on economics and public policy in scholarly journals. He has also served two terms as associate dean of the first year and for one year, 2003-2004, was interim director of the Center for Teaching and Learning.

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