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William F. Shughart II

J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
Areas of Expertise
Energy
Taxation
Environment
Regulation

William F. Shughart II

Distinguished Research Advisor and Senior Fellow

William F. Shughart II is Distinguished Research Advisor and Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, the J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, past President and Distinguished Fellow of the Southern Economic Association, and past President of the Public Choice Society. A former economist at the Federal Trade Commission, Professor Shughart received his Ph.D. in economics from Texas A & M University, and he has taught at George Mason University, Clemson University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Arizona.

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April 7, 2025 | News Article
President Donald Trump’s new tariff campaign, imposing heavy taxes on imports...
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March 24, 2025 | News Article
“Government” and “efficiency” should never appear in the same sentence, a truth that I...
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March 15, 2025 | Book Review
Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
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March 6, 2025 | News Article
Daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. on Sunday. Unless Congress...
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March 5, 2025 | News Article
More than 40 million low-income Americans benefit from the Department of...
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March 4, 2025 | News Article
America’s Economic Growth & the Power of Independent Thinking
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February 11, 2025 | News Article
The Sherman Act (1890) declares “every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise...
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January 18, 2025 | News Article
Let’s say it plainly: The United States needs its fleet of coal-fired power plants. ...
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November 13, 2024 | News Article
A second lesson of 2024 rings the death knell of the National...
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November 12, 2024 | News Article
Most political pollsters were wrong about how close the 2024...
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