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William L. Breit

January 06, 2023

William Breit (1933–2011) was an American economist, mystery novelist, and professional comedian. Breit was born in New Orleans. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Texas and his Ph.D from Michigan State University in 1961. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University (1961–1965) On the recommendation of Milton Friedman he was interviewed and hired at the University of Virginia where he was Associate Professor and Professor of Economics (19651983). He returned to his San Antonio as the E.M. Stevens Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in 1983 and retired as the Vernon F. Taylor Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2002. He is considered an expert in the history of economic thought and anti-trust economics. He established the Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Trinity University and is most notable as a mystery novelist (with Kenneth Elzinga) where their murder mysteries are solved by applying basic economic principles.

Books

  • Readings in Microeconomics with Harold M. Hochman (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968).
  • Readings in Microeconomics, with Harold M. Hochman, Second Revised Edition (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971). Cloth and paper editions. (Italian translation, 1971; Spanish translation, 1973.)
  • The Academic Scribblers: American Economists in Collision with Roger L. Ransom (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
  • Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C.E. Ayres with a foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith (Co-Editor and Contributor with W.P. Culbertson, Jr.) (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1976).
  • The Antitrust Penalties: A Study in Law and Economics, with Kenneth G. Elzinga (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.) [Selected as Book of the Month Alternate by McGraw-Hill Management Book Guild; awarded 1977 Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize.] Cited by Justice Burger in Texas Industries v Radcliff Materials, 451 U.S. 630, 636 (1981).
  • Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons (joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga) (Glen Ridge: Thomas Horton and Daughters, 1978). Paperback, 1979.
  • The Academic Scribblers, Revised Edition, with Roger Ranson (Chicago: Dryden Press, 1982).
  • The Antitrust Casebook: Milestones in Economic Regulation. with Kenneth Elzinga (Chicago: Dryden Press, 1982).
  • The Fatal Equilibrium by Marshall Jevons (joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga) (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1985) [Published in paperback edition by Ballantine Books, New York, 1986.] [Translated into Japanese and published by Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha Ltd., Tokyo, 1986.] [Translated into Korean and published by Book & World Publishers, Seoul, 2001.] [Translated into French and published by Economica of Paris]
  • Antitrust Penalty Reform: An Economic Analysis, with Kenneth Elzinga (Washington: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1986).
  • Readings in Microeconomics, with Harold M. Hochman and Edward Saueracker, Third Edition (St. Louis: Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishing, 1986).
  • Lives of the Laureates: Seven Nobel Economists, with co-editor Roger W. Spencer (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986). [Translated into Portuguese and published by Forense-Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro, 1988.] [Translated into Japanese and published by Otas Kenkyujo, Tokyo, 1989.]
  • The Antitrust Casebook, Second Revised Edition with Kenneth Elzinga (Chicago: Dryden Press, 1989).
  • Lives of the Laureates: Ten Nobel Economists, Second Revised Edition with Roger Spencer (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990). [Translated into Thai and published by Bhannakij Trading Ltd., Bangkok, 1991.] [Translated into Indonesian by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta, 1992.] [Translated into Spanish and published by Editorial Celeste, Madrid, 1993.] [Translated into Italian and published by Il Sole 24 Ore Libri of Milan, 1992.]
  • Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons (joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Cloth and paperback editions, 1993. [A critical edition of the 1978 mystery novel reissued by Princeton University Press with a new “Foreword” by Herbert Stein and a new “Afterword” by Marshall Jevons.] [Translated into Spanish and published by Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1996.] [Translated into Korean and published by Book & World Publishers, Seoul 2001.] [Translated into French and published by Economica of Paris]
  • Lives of the Laureates: Thirteen Nobel Economists, Third Revised Edition with Roger Spencer (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995.) [Published in paperback edition by MIT Press, Cambridge, 1997.] [Translated into Chinese (complex character) and published by Commonwealth Publishing Company, Taipei, 1998.] [Translated into Chinese (simplified character) and published by the Hainan Publishing House, Hainan, forthcoming.]
  • A Deadly Indifference by Marshall Jevons (joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga) (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995). [Published in paperback edition by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1998.] [Translated into Korean and published by Book & World Publishers, Seoul, 2001.] [Translated into French and published by Economica of Paris]
  • The Antitrust Casebook: Milestones in Economic Regulation, Third Edition with Kenneth Elzinga (Fort Worth: The Dryden Press, 1996).
  • The Academic Scribblers, Third Edition with Roger Ransom, with a “Foreword” by Robert M. Solow and “Afterword” by the authors (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). [Translated into Chinese (simplified) and published by Liang Jing Publishing Studio, Beijing]
  • Lives of the Laureates: Eighteen Nobel Economists, with Barry T. Hirsch, 4th ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.
  • Lives of the Laureates: Twenty Three Nobel Economists, with Barry T. Hirsch, 5th ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009.

Articles

  • “The Debt Burden and Future Generations: A Review of the Controversy,” Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference on Taxation, National Taxpayers Union, 1965.
  • “Some Neglected Early Critics of the Wages Fund Theory,” Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, June, 1967.
  • “The Wages Fund Controversy Revisited,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, November, 1967.
  • “Public-Goods Interaction in Stackelberg Geometry,” Western Economic Journal, March, 1968.
  • “Approaches to Oligopoly,” Social Science Quarterly, June, 1968.
  • “Oligopoly Symposium: Reply to Hattwick, Sailors and Barton,” Social Science Quarterly, March, 1969.
  • “Some Early Unconventional Wisdom on Utility Regulation,” Social Science Quarterly, March, 1970.
  • “Distributional Equality and Aggregate Utility,” (with W.P. Culbertson, Jr.) American Economic Review, June, 1970.
  • “Markets,” Encyclopedia International, 1971.
  • “Social Responsibility and the Corporation: Discussion,” Journal of Economic Issues, March, 1972.
  • “Distributional Equality and Aggregate Utility: Reply,” (with W.P. Culbertson, Jr.) American Economic Review, June, 1972.
  • “Antitrust Penalties and Attitudes Toward Risk: An Economic Analysis,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Harvard Law Review, February, 1973.
  • “The Development of Clarence Ayres’s Theoretical Institutionalism,” Social Science Quarterly, September, 1973.
  • “Income Redistribution and Efficiency Norms,” in Redistribution Through Public Choice, eds., H.M. Hochman and G.E. Peterson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974).
  • “The Instruments of Antitrust Enforcement,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) in The Antitrust Dilemma, eds., J. Dalton and S. Levin (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Co., 1974).
  • “Private Actions – The Purposes Sought and the Results Achieved: The Economist’s View,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Antitrust Law Journal, Spring, 1974.
  • “Antitrust Enforcement and Economic Efficiency: The Uneasy Case for Treble Damages,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Journal of Law and Economics, October, 1974.
  • “Product Differentiation and Institutionalism: New Shadows on an Old Terrain,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Journal of Economic Issues, December, 1974.
  • “The Effectiveness of Private Treble Damages as an Antitrust Enforcement Mechanism: Efficiency and Equity Considerations,” Southwestern University Law Review, Vol. 8, 1976.
  • “Starving the Leviathan: Balanced Budget Prescriptions Before Keynes,” in Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy, edited by James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978).
  • “Ayres, Clarence Edwin,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Biographical Supplement (New York: The Free Press, 1980).
  • “Ezra Pound and the GNP,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Southern Economic Journal, January, 1980.
  • “Information for Antitrust and Business Activity: Line of Business Reporting,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) in The Federal Trade Commission Since 1970, edited by Kenneth W. Clarkson and Timothy J. Muris (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
  • “Mr. Friedman’s Strictures on Murder at the Margin,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Public Choice, Vol. 36, 1981.
  • “New Approaches to Antitrust Damages: The Alternatives to Mandatory Trebling,” (with Joe Sims and Others) The Business Lawyer, American Bar Association, 1984.
  • “Galbraith and Friedman: Two Versions of Economic Reality,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Fall, 1984.
  • “Private Antitrust Enforcement: The New Learning,” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Journal of Law and Economics, May, 1985.
  • “Biography and the Making of Economic Worlds,” Southern Economic Journal, April, 1987.
  • “Creating the Virginia School: Charlottesville as an Academic Environment in the 1960s,” Economic Inquiry, October, 1987.
  • “Introduction” to “Political Economy 1957–1982,” by James M. Buchanan in Ideas, Their Origins, and Their Consequences (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1988).
  • “Institutional Economics as an Ideological Movement” in Philosophy, History and Social Action, edited by Sidney Hook, William L. O’Neill and Roger O’Toole (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988). [This book is a volume in the “Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science” series.]
  • “Resale Price Maintenance: What Do Economists Know and When Did They Know It?,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, March, 1991.
  • “Discrimination and Diversity: Market and Non-Market Settings,” (with John Horowitz), Public Choice, Vol. 84, 1995.
  • “The Yeager Mystique: The Polymath as Teacher, Scholar and Colleague” (with Kenneth G. Elzinga and Thomas D. Willett), Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 22, Spring 1996.
  • "Stone, Sir John Richard N." in An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, edited by Thomas Cate, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997).
  • "Reputation versus Influence: The Evidence from Textbook References" (with John H. Huston), Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 23, Fall 1997.
  • “In Memoriam: Herbert Stein,” Southern Economic Journal, vol. 66, April 2002.
  • "Economics as Detective Fiction,” with Kenneth Elzinga Journal of Economic Education,Fall 2002.

Awards and honors

  • Research grant, Wilson Gee Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 1966; 1972
  • Sesquicentennial Associate, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, 1973–1974; 1981–1982
  • Senior Research Associate, Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy, University of Virginia, 1975–1976
  • 1977 Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize for The Antitrust Penalties: A Study in the Law and Economics (Yale University Press, 1976) (with Kenneth G. Elzinga)
  • Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1977–
  • Board of Directors, Association for Evolutionary Economics, 1978–1981
  • First Vice-President, Southern Economic Association, 1979–1980
  • Annual Aldeen Lecture, Wheaton College, 1982
  • Commencement Address, Trinity University, 1983
  • Invited Plenary Lecture, Southwestern Economics Association Annual Meeting, 1984
  • President-Elect, Southern Economic Association, 1984–1985
  • President, Southern Economic Association, 1985–1986
  • Member, Advisory Board to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, D.C., 1985–1990
  • Annual Lecture in Virginia Political Economy Lecture Series, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, 1986
  • First Annual Erickson Lecture in Economics, Southwest Texas State University, 1988
  • Harris Distinguished Professor, Clemson University, 1990
  • First Annual Harris Lecture, Clemson University, Spring, 1990
  • Honors Convocation Address, Trinity University, Spring 1992
  • Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1997
  • Inducted into Epsilon of Texas Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa (Honorary), Spring 1998
  • Michigan State University Distinguished Alumni Award, 1999
  • “The Worlds of William Breit” Southern Economic Association Special Session, Organized by SEA President-elect Charles Holt, Panelists: Kenneth Elzinga, Robert Hebert (remarks given by Mark Thornton, Harold Hochman and Gordon Tullock. Moderated by David J. Zorn, Tampa, Florida, November 18, 2001
  • Southwestern Social Sciences Association Distinguished Achievement Award, 2002
  • Who’s Who in America 57th Edition

Administrative positions

  • Director of Graduate Studies in Economics, University of Virginia, 1967–1968
  • Director of Honors Program in Economics, University of Virginia, 1967–1974
  • Institute Director, Summer Institute on the American Economy, University of Virginia, 1974 and 1975
  • Creator and Director of the Trinity University Nobel Economists Lecture Series from 1984 to 2002.

Editorial duties

  • Advisory Editor, Social Science Quarterly, 1965–1977
  • Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Issues, 1976–1979
  • Board of Editors, Research in the History of Economics, 1983–
  • Board of Editors, International Social Science Review, 1984–
  • Board of Editors, Social Science Journal, 1985–
  • Co-Editor (with Kenneth G. Elzinga), Political Economy and Public Policy: an International Series of Monographs in Law and Economics, History of Economic Thought and Public Finance, JAI Press Inc., Greenwich, Conn.

Visiting appointments

  • Visiting Professor, the Economics Institute, University of Colorado, Summer, 1966
  • Visiting Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Summer Quarter, 1968
  • Visiting Professor of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring Semester, 1975

References

External links

  • In Memoriam to Bill Breit at Trinity University
  • The Worlds of William Breit
  • William Breit's Vita at Trinity University
  • Obituary from the San Antonio New Express
  • Trinity University Nobel Economists Lecture Series
  • Trinity University Department of Economics homepage

January 06, 2023
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William Breit 1933 2011 was an American economist mystery novelist and professional comedian Breit was born in New Orleans He received his undergraduate and master s degrees from the University of Texas and his Ph D from Michigan State University in 1961 He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University 1961 1965 On the recommendation of Milton Friedman he was interviewed and hired at the University of Virginia where he was Associate Professor and Professor of Economics 19651983 He returned to his San Antonio as the E M Stevens Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in 1983 and retired as the Vernon F Taylor Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2002 He is considered an expert in the history of economic thought and anti trust economics He established the Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Trinity University and is most notable as a mystery novelist with Kenneth Elzinga where their murder mysteries are solved by applying basic economic principles Contents 1 Books 2 Articles 3 Awards and honors 4 Administrative positions 5 Editorial duties 6 Visiting appointments 7 References 8 External linksBooks EditReadings in Microeconomics with Harold M Hochman New York Holt Rinehart and Winston 1968 Readings in Microeconomics with Harold M Hochman Second Revised Edition New York Holt Rinehart and Winston 1971 Cloth and paper editions Italian translation 1971 Spanish translation 1973 The Academic Scribblers American Economists in Collision with Roger L Ransom New York Holt Rinehart and Winston 1971 Science and Ceremony The Institutional Economics of C E Ayres with a foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith Co Editor and Contributor with W P Culbertson Jr Austin The University of Texas Press 1976 The Antitrust Penalties A Study in Law and Economics with Kenneth G Elzinga New Haven Yale University Press 1976 Selected as Book of the Month Alternate by McGraw Hill Management Book Guild awarded 1977 Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize Cited by Justice Burger in Texas Industries v Radcliff Materials 451 U S 630 636 1981 Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga Glen Ridge Thomas Horton and Daughters 1978 Paperback 1979 The Academic Scribblers Revised Edition with Roger Ranson Chicago Dryden Press 1982 The Antitrust Casebook Milestones in Economic Regulation with Kenneth Elzinga Chicago Dryden Press 1982 The Fatal Equilibrium by Marshall Jevons joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga Cambridge The MIT Press 1985 Published in paperback edition by Ballantine Books New York 1986 Translated into Japanese and published by Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha Ltd Tokyo 1986 Translated into Korean and published by Book amp World Publishers Seoul 2001 Translated into French and published by Economica of Paris Antitrust Penalty Reform An Economic Analysis with Kenneth Elzinga Washington The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1986 Readings in Microeconomics with Harold M Hochman and Edward Saueracker Third Edition St Louis Times Mirror Mosby College Publishing 1986 Lives of the Laureates Seven Nobel Economists with co editor Roger W Spencer Cambridge The MIT Press 1986 Translated into Portuguese and published by Forense Universitaria Rio de Janeiro 1988 Translated into Japanese and published by Otas Kenkyujo Tokyo 1989 The Antitrust Casebook Second Revised Edition with Kenneth Elzinga Chicago Dryden Press 1989 Lives of the Laureates Ten Nobel Economists Second Revised Edition with Roger Spencer Cambridge The MIT Press 1990 Translated into Thai and published by Bhannakij Trading Ltd Bangkok 1991 Translated into Indonesian by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama Jakarta 1992 Translated into Spanish and published by Editorial Celeste Madrid 1993 Translated into Italian and published by Il Sole 24 Ore Libri of Milan 1992 Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga Princeton Princeton University Press 1993 Cloth and paperback editions 1993 A critical edition of the 1978 mystery novel reissued by Princeton University Press with a new Foreword by Herbert Stein and a new Afterword by Marshall Jevons Translated into Spanish and published by Alianza Editorial Madrid 1996 Translated into Korean and published by Book amp World Publishers Seoul 2001 Translated into French and published by Economica of Paris Lives of the Laureates Thirteen Nobel Economists Third Revised Edition with Roger Spencer Cambridge The MIT Press 1995 Published in paperback edition by MIT Press Cambridge 1997 Translated into Chinese complex character and published by Commonwealth Publishing Company Taipei 1998 Translated into Chinese simplified character and published by the Hainan Publishing House Hainan forthcoming A Deadly Indifference by Marshall Jevons joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga New York Carroll amp Graf 1995 Published in paperback edition by Princeton University Press Princeton 1998 Translated into Korean and published by Book amp World Publishers Seoul 2001 Translated into French and published by Economica of Paris The Antitrust Casebook Milestones in Economic Regulation Third Edition with Kenneth Elzinga Fort Worth The Dryden Press 1996 The Academic Scribblers Third Edition with Roger Ransom with a Foreword by Robert M Solow and Afterword by the authors Princeton Princeton University Press 1998 Translated into Chinese simplified and published by Liang Jing Publishing Studio Beijing Lives of the Laureates Eighteen Nobel Economists with Barry T Hirsch 4th ed Cambridge Mass MIT Press 2004 Lives of the Laureates Twenty Three Nobel Economists with Barry T Hirsch 5th ed Cambridge Mass MIT Press 2009 Articles Edit The Debt Burden and Future Generations A Review of the Controversy Proceedings of the Fifty Eighth Annual Conference on Taxation National Taxpayers Union 1965 Some Neglected Early Critics of the Wages Fund Theory Southwestern Social Science Quarterly June 1967 The Wages Fund Controversy Revisited Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science November 1967 Public Goods Interaction in Stackelberg Geometry Western Economic Journal March 1968 Approaches to Oligopoly Social Science Quarterly June 1968 Oligopoly Symposium Reply to Hattwick Sailors and Barton Social Science Quarterly March 1969 Some Early Unconventional Wisdom on Utility Regulation Social Science Quarterly March 1970 Distributional Equality and Aggregate Utility with W P Culbertson Jr American Economic Review June 1970 Markets Encyclopedia International 1971 Social Responsibility and the Corporation Discussion Journal of Economic Issues March 1972 Distributional Equality and Aggregate Utility Reply with W P Culbertson Jr American Economic Review June 1972 Antitrust Penalties and Attitudes Toward Risk An Economic Analysis with Kenneth G Elzinga Harvard Law Review February 1973 The Development of Clarence Ayres s Theoretical Institutionalism Social Science Quarterly September 1973 Income Redistribution and Efficiency Norms in Redistribution Through Public Choice eds H M Hochman and G E Peterson New York Columbia University Press 1974 The Instruments of Antitrust Enforcement with Kenneth G Elzinga in The Antitrust Dilemma eds J Dalton and S Levin Lexington D C Heath and Co 1974 Private Actions The Purposes Sought and the Results Achieved The Economist s View with Kenneth G Elzinga Antitrust Law Journal Spring 1974 Antitrust Enforcement and Economic Efficiency The Uneasy Case for Treble Damages with Kenneth G Elzinga Journal of Law and Economics October 1974 Product Differentiation and Institutionalism New Shadows on an Old Terrain with Kenneth G Elzinga Journal of Economic Issues December 1974 The Effectiveness of Private Treble Damages as an Antitrust Enforcement Mechanism Efficiency and Equity Considerations Southwestern University Law Review Vol 8 1976 Starving the Leviathan Balanced Budget Prescriptions Before Keynes in Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy edited by James M Buchanan and Richard E Wagner Leiden Martinus Nijhoff 1978 Ayres Clarence Edwin in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Biographical Supplement New York The Free Press 1980 Ezra Pound and the GNP with Kenneth G Elzinga Southern Economic Journal January 1980 Information for Antitrust and Business Activity Line of Business Reporting with Kenneth G Elzinga in The Federal Trade Commission Since 1970 edited by Kenneth W Clarkson and Timothy J Muris Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1981 Mr Friedman s Strictures on Murder at the Margin with Kenneth G Elzinga Public Choice Vol 36 1981 New Approaches to Antitrust Damages The Alternatives to Mandatory Trebling with Joe Sims and Others The Business Lawyer American Bar Association 1984 Galbraith and Friedman Two Versions of Economic Reality Journal of Post Keynesian Economics Fall 1984 Private Antitrust Enforcement The New Learning with Kenneth G Elzinga Journal of Law and Economics May 1985 Biography and the Making of Economic Worlds Southern Economic Journal April 1987 Creating the Virginia School Charlottesville as an Academic Environment in the 1960s Economic Inquiry October 1987 Introduction to Political Economy 1957 1982 by James M Buchanan in Ideas Their Origins and Their Consequences Washington D C American Enterprise Institute 1988 Institutional Economics as an Ideological Movement in Philosophy History and Social Action edited by Sidney Hook William L O Neill and Roger O Toole Dordrecht and Boston Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988 This book is a volume in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science series Resale Price Maintenance What Do Economists Know and When Did They Know It Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics March 1991 Discrimination and Diversity Market and Non Market Settings with John Horowitz Public Choice Vol 84 1995 The Yeager Mystique The Polymath as Teacher Scholar and Colleague with Kenneth G Elzinga and Thomas D Willett Eastern Economic Journal Vol 22 Spring 1996 Stone Sir John Richard N in An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics edited by Thomas Cate Cheltenham UK Edward Elgar 1997 Reputation versus Influence The Evidence from Textbook References with John H Huston Eastern Economic Journal Vol 23 Fall 1997 In Memoriam Herbert Stein Southern Economic Journal vol 66 April 2002 Economics as Detective Fiction with Kenneth Elzinga Journal of Economic Education Fall 2002 Awards and honors EditResearch grant Wilson Gee Institute for Research in the Social Sciences 1966 1972 Sesquicentennial Associate Center for Advanced Studies University of Virginia 1973 1974 1981 1982 Senior Research Associate Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy University of Virginia 1975 1976 1977 Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize for The Antitrust Penalties A Study in the Law and Economics Yale University Press 1976 with Kenneth G Elzinga Adjunct Scholar American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Washington D C 1977 Board of Directors Association for Evolutionary Economics 1978 1981 First Vice President Southern Economic Association 1979 1980 Annual Aldeen Lecture Wheaton College 1982 Commencement Address Trinity University 1983 Invited Plenary Lecture Southwestern Economics Association Annual Meeting 1984 President Elect Southern Economic Association 1984 1985 President Southern Economic Association 1985 1986 Member Advisory Board to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Washington D C 1985 1990 Annual Lecture in Virginia Political Economy Lecture Series Center for Study of Public Choice George Mason University 1986 First Annual Erickson Lecture in Economics Southwest Texas State University 1988 Harris Distinguished Professor Clemson University 1990 First Annual Harris Lecture Clemson University Spring 1990 Honors Convocation Address Trinity University Spring 1992 Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecturer University of Arkansas Fayetteville 1997 Inducted into Epsilon of Texas Chapter Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Spring 1998 Michigan State University Distinguished Alumni Award 1999 The Worlds of William Breit Southern Economic Association Special Session Organized by SEA President elect Charles Holt Panelists Kenneth Elzinga Robert Hebert remarks given by Mark Thornton Harold Hochman and Gordon Tullock Moderated by David J Zorn Tampa Florida November 18 2001 Southwestern Social Sciences Association Distinguished Achievement Award 2002 Who s Who in America 57th EditionAdministrative positions EditDirector of Graduate Studies in Economics University of Virginia 1967 1968 Director of Honors Program in Economics University of Virginia 1967 1974 Institute Director Summer Institute on the American Economy University of Virginia 1974 and 1975 Creator and Director of the Trinity University Nobel Economists Lecture Series from 1984 to 2002 Editorial duties EditAdvisory Editor Social Science Quarterly 1965 1977 Board of Editors Journal of Economic Issues 1976 1979 Board of Editors Research in the History of Economics 1983 Board of Editors International Social Science Review 1984 Board of Editors Social Science Journal 1985 Co Editor with Kenneth G Elzinga Political Economy and Public Policy an International Series of Monographs in Law and Economics History of Economic Thought and Public Finance JAI Press Inc Greenwich Conn Visiting appointments EditVisiting Professor the Economics Institute University of Colorado Summer 1966 Visiting Professor of Economics University of California Berkeley Summer Quarter 1968 Visiting Professor of Economics The University of Texas at Austin Spring Semester 1975References EditExternal links EditIn Memoriam to Bill Breit at Trinity University The Worlds of William Breit William Breit s Vita at Trinity University Obituary from the San Antonio New Express Trinity University Nobel Economists Lecture Series Trinity University Department of Economics homepage Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title William L Breit amp oldid 1090773964, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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