Gordon L. Brady

Dr. Gordon L. Brady.

Education
 * B.A. in Economics, University of North Carolina (1967)
 * M.A. in Economics, University of North Carolina
 * Ph.D. in Economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1976)
 * M.S. in Law, Yale Law School (1981)

Career until 1990
 * 1979-1980: Chief of the Economic Analysis Division, National Commission on Air Quality
 * 1981-1982: Special Consultant on Regulatory Reform, National Science Foundation
 * 1982-1985: Senior Economic Policy Advisor, President's Council on Environmental Quality
 * 1985-1990: Senior Staff Assistant to Administrator, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
 * 1990 Senior Advisor for Environmental Economics, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Gordon L. Brady was Associate Professor and Director Environmental Studies at Sweet Briar College (Virginia) in 1994 when he was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the pro-tobacco junk science report Science, economics, and environmental policy: a critical examination published on August 11, 1994, by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI). Philip Morris was a sponsor of AdTI (see AdTI-Funding).

Robert D. Tollison was also a members of that Academic Advisory Board and both Mr. Brady and Mr. Tollison were co-authors of a book published in the same month.

In 1995 he was a 'Visiting Scholar' at the 'Center for the Study of Public Choice' at George Mason University while Robert D. Tollison was at that time the General Director of that center. 

The Earhart Foundation gave in 2001 $20,000 to the 'Center for the Study of Public Choice' at the 'George Mason University' as a 'Fellowship Research Grant' for Mr. Brady with the description "During the fall of 2001 to complete preparation of a book on Duncan Black". 

Mr. Brady was a member of the Board of Scholars of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy.

Current Positions
 * senior research scholar at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University.
 * member of the board of editors at the 'Atlantic Economic Journal'
 * director of the 'Law and Economics Center' (founded by a group of people including Gordon Tullock) of the George Mason University School of Law.
 * associate fellow at the International Economics Programme at The Royal Institute of International Affairs in London
 * member of the Mont Pelerin Society
 * member of the Philadelphia Society

Books and other Publications

 * Gordon Tullock, Robert D. Tollison, Gordon L. Brady, "On the Trail of Homo Economicus: Essays by Gordon Tullock", George Mason University Press, August 1994, ISBN 0913969737
 * Duncan Black, Gordon L. Brady, Gordon Tullock, "Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice: The Unpublished Works of Duncan Black", Kluwer Academic Publishers, December 1995, ISBN 0792395565
 * Gordon L. Brady, "The Internet, Economic Growth and Governance", Institute of Economic Affairs, March 2000
 * Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, Gordon L. Brady, "Government: Whose Obedient Servant? A Primer in Public Choice", Institute of Economic Affairs, September 1, 2000, ISBN 0255364822
 * Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, Gordon L. Brady, "Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice", Cato Institute, June 2002, ISBN 1930865201