Email: jlipford at presby dot edu Phone: (864) 833-8353 Office: 229 Jacobs Hall

Economics and Business Administration
Faculty

Dr. Jody Lipford (Jody), Department Chair
Professor of Economics and Business Administration 

Joined PC Faculty: 1991

Degrees:
B.S., Francis Marion College; M.A., Ph.D., Clemson University

Courses Taught:
Introductory Microeconomics; Introductory Macroeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory; Money, Banking, and Financial Markets; Comparative Economic Systems; Economics of Property Rights; and International Trade

Areas of Specialty:
Public Finance, Public Choice; Property Rights

Professional Memberships:
Southern Economic Association, 1991-present
Association of Private Enterprise Education, 2002-present Regional Advisory Commission to State Board of Economic Advisors, 2001-present

Publications and Professional Development:
Lipford, Jody W. and Pompe, Jeffrey. 2005. Putting Private Lands into Public Hands: Explaining Voter Choices to Puchase Public Lands. Journal of Private Enterprise 20: 1-24.

Presented "Explaining Voter Choices to Purchase Public Land" (co-authored with Jeff Pompe), Association of Private Enterprise Education Meeting, April 2004.

Presented " South Carolina's Jocassee Gorges -- Private Vice or Public Virtue?" (co-authored with Bruce Yandle and Jerry Slice), Association of Private Enterprise Education Meeting, April 2004.

Presented paper titled "Emerging Crisis: Population Growth, Drought, and Conflicts over Water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin" at Association of Private Enterprise Education Meeting, April 2004.

Presented paper titled "Emerging Crisis: Population Growth, Drought, and Conflicts over Water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin" to Economics Department of Wake Forest University, March 2004.

Gave radio interview on water markets on Alabama Public Radio show called Capital Ideas, March 2004.

Published op-eds titled "Give Markets a Chance to Work" in the Mobile Register and the Tallahassee Democrat, March 2004.

Lipford, Jody W. 2004. Averting Water Disputes: A Southeastern Case Study. PERC Policy Series, PS-30, Bozeman, MT, PERC.

Fall 2003: Visiting Scholar at Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, MT.

Reviewed Stephen Kotkin's Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 in the Winter 2004 issue of The Independent Review.

Lipford, Jody W., and Tollison, Robert D. 2003. Religious Participation and Income. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 51: 249-260.

Lipford, Jody; Slice, Jerry; and Yandle, Bruce. 2002. South Carolina's Jocassee Gorges --  Private Vice or Public Virtue? PERC Research Study  02-2.

Lipford, Jody W., and Pompe, Jeffrey. 2002. The Political Allocation of Property Rights: An Application to State Land Use Regulation. Journal of Private Enterprise 18 (Fall): 14-31.

Lipford, Jody W. 2001. How Transparent Is the U.S. Budget? The Independent Review 5 (Spring): 575-591.

Lipford, Jody. 2000. The Political Economy of Gun Control:  An Analysis of Senatorial Votes on the 1993 Brady Bill. Journal on Firearms and Public Policy 12 (Fall ): 33-63.

Lipford, Jody W. 1999. Twenty Years after Humphrey-Hawkins: An Assessment of Fiscal Policy. The Independent Review 4: 41-62.

Lipford, Jody W. and Bourdeaux, Karol. 1998. Group Size, Group Heterogeneity, and Voting Rules: An Application of the Buchanan-Tullock Model to the European Union. European Journal of Law and Economics 5:133-152.

Lipford, Jody W. and Yandle, Bruce. 1997. Exploring the Production of Social Order. Constitutional Political Economy 8: 37-55.

Lipford., Jody W. 1996. Group Size and the Free-Rider Hypothesis: A Reexamination of Old Evidence from Churches: A Reply to Zaleski and Zech. Public Choice 88: 413-416.

Lipford, Jody W. 1996. On Group Size and the Free-Rider Hypothesis: An Examination of New Evidence  from Churches: A Reply to Tullock. Public Choice 87: 187-188.

Lipford, Jody W. and Dougan, William R. 1995. A Public-Choice Theoretic Analysis of Ricardian Equivalence. Public Finance Quarterly 23 (October): 467-483.
 
Lipford, Jody W., and Bourdeaux, Donald J., and Yandle, Bruce. 1995. Regulatory Takings and Constitutional Repair: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion. Constitutional Political Economy 6 (Summer):171-190.

Lipford, Jody W. and Bourbeaux, Donald J. 1995. The Political Economy of State Takings Legislation. In Land Rights: Escaping Feudalism by the 21st Century. Edited by Bruce Yandle. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Lipford, Jody W. 1995. Group Size and the Free-Rider Hypothesis: An Examination of New Evidence from Churches. Public Choice 83: 291-303.

Lipford, Jody W., McCormick, Robert E., and Tollison, Robert D. 1993. Preaching Matters. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 21 (August): 235-250.

Lipford, Jody W. 1992. Organizational Objectives and Constitutional Constraints: An Application to Religious Denominations. Constitutional Political Economy 3 (Fall): 343-357.

Lipford, Jody W. and Yandle, Bruce. 1990. Exploring Dominant State Governments. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 146 (December): 561-575.

Lipford, Jody W. and Yandle, Bruce. 1987. Dominant Political Parties and State Unemployment Benefits. Public Choice 53: 175-180.

Parker, Joel and Lipford, Jody. 1986. Georgia Takes Problems in Stride. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review. 71 (November/ December): 27-36.