Santa Clara University

Fred Foldvary

Lecturer in Economics

Fred Foldvary has taught Economics at Santa Clara since September 1998 and also directs the school’s Civil Society Institute. He received his Ph.D in Economics from George Mason University and was a Phi Beta Kappa Honor student as a UC Berkeley undergraduate.

Much of Dr. Foldvary’s scholarly work focuses on public finance and real estate economics. He is the author of The Soul of Liberty, Public Goods and Private Communities, and Dictionary of Free Market Economics. He edited and contributed to Beyond Neoclassical Economics and, with Dan Klein, The Half-Life of Policy Rationales. He brings a global perspective to the classroom, having previously worked with the Latvia University of Agriculture. Public Goods and Private Communities won him the Atlas Foundation's Antony Fisher International Memorial Award in 1995, and a Chinese version of it has been published.

Dr. Foldvary is a co-editor of http://econjwatch.org/, a tri-annual peer-reviewed journal for scholarly commentary on academic economics.

October 2009

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