Robert Lawson
About Robert Lawson
Robert Lawson holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and directs the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He is a founding co-author of the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World annual report, which presents an economic freedom index for over 160 countries. Lawson has authored or co-authored over 100 academic publications and has over 13,000 Google Scholar citations. He is the co-author, with Benjamin Powell, of the Amazon Bestseller, Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World (Regnery Publishing). Lawson earned his PhD and MS in Economics from Florida State University and his BS in Economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. He taught previously at Auburn University, Capital University, and Shawnee State University. Personal Bio: Lawson lives in a 1901 Victorian in Wylie, Texas with his talented wife Tracy Lawson and two cats named Malcolm Reynolds and Kaylee Frye. His daughter, Kerianne Lawson Rubenstein, is an economics professor at North Dakota State University. He has been to 57 countries and 48 states. His hobbies include vintage base ball, hiking, running, air-cooled Volkswagens, and sports of all kinds. A native of Cincinnati, he loves Cincinnati chili, the Bengals, and the Reds. He is the founder of Bengals Fans DFW.