Michael David Thomas, PhD

Associate Professor

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Contact

MichaelThomas@creighton.edu
Heider College of Business
Economics & Finance - Business
Menard Center for Economic Inquiry
HARP - Harper Center for Student Life & Learn

Michael David Thomas, PhD

Associate Professor

Michael D. Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Economics and Finance Department at Creighton University. He was previously a Research Professor at Utah State University, studying transportation economics, regulation policy, and welfare economics. He is a public choice economist who earned a PhD in economics from George Mason university in 2009. Micahel has also studied at Duke University while a fellow at the History of Political Economy Center in 2008-2009. Michael has published papers in Public Choice, Kyklos, the Independent Review, the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, the Journal of City and Town Management, the Review of Austrian Economics, and the Journal of Private Enterprise. His wife, Diana W. Thomas is an associate professor of economics at Creighton. Michael's interest in monetary economics was stimulated while earning a Masters degree at the University of Missouri--St. Louis and while selling mortgage loans during 2001-2003 as a loan originator. Michael received his bachelors degree from the University of Alabama in 2001 and is an avid college football fan.

Department

Economics and Finance

Position

Associate Professor

Presentations

  • "Economics and the Enlightenment", Europe and Liberty Seminar, Institute for Economic Studies, at the Friedrich Neumann Foundation für die Freiheit, Gummersbach, DE 2017
  • "Socratic Instruction and Undergraduate Reading Groups" Association of Private Enterprise Education, Lahaina, HI -- Panel Discussion and Presentation 2017
  • "The Paternalism of Taxing Disfavored Goods" Association of Private Enterprise Education, Lahaina, HI -- Paper Presentation 2017
  • "Circumscribed Justice: The Limits of the New Paternalism" Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New Orleans, LA -- Paper Presentation 2017
  • "The Problems in Voting after Rational Irrationality" Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC -- Paper Presentation 2016
  • "Cutting the Epistemic Knot: The Mysticism of Modern Paternalism" Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC -- Paper Presentation 2016
  • "Taxes as Country Club Dues" University of Washington, Seattle, WA -- Paper Presentation 2016
  • "Nebraska: Undermining Fiscal Discipline and Eroding Federalism" Southern EconomicAssociation Meetings, New Orleans, LA -- Paper Presentation 2015
  • "Regressive Effects: Causes and Consequences of Selective Consumption Taxation"Association of Private Enterprise Association, Cancún, MX -- Paper Presentation 2015
  • "Critiques of Behavioral Economics" Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, GA -- Paper Presentation 2014

Awards

  • Cahill Award for Excellence, Heider College of Business Dean's Office , 2018
    For contributing to the legacy of the college of business by recruiting the largest class of incoming Heider Fellows.
    Heider College of Business Dean's Office
  • Cahill Award for Excellence, Heider College of Business Dean's Office , 2019
    For contributing to the legacy of the college of business by establishing the first Faculty Led Program to Vienna, spring 2019.
    Heider College of Business Dean's Office
  • Cahill Award for Excellence
    For contributing to the legacy of the college of business by helping to lead a new program, Business Research Fellows.
    Heider College of Business Dean's Office