CURRICULUM VITAE
ROGER KOPPL
November
2009
|
Business
Address Institute for Forensic Science Administration M-MS2-02 Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, New Jersey 07940 (973) 443-8846 koppl@fdu.edu |
Web Addresses personal:
http://inside.fdu.edu/pt/koppl.html institute:
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Economics), Auburn University 1988
M.A. (Economics), New York University, 1983
B.A. (Economics and Mathematics), Cleveland
State University, 1980
EXPERIENCE
1998
– present Professor
of Economics and Finance, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1994
– present Faculty
Associate, Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy, New York
University
2006-
present Director
(and founder) Institute for Forensic Science Administration
2005 Visiting
Scholar, Max Planck Institute, Jena
2003
– 2004 Visiting
Scholar, George Mason University
2000 Visiting
Professor, Copenhagen Business School
1994
– 1998 Associate
Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1988 -
1994 Assistant
Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
1988 Instructor,
Auburn University,
1983 -
1985 Instructor,
Auburn University at Montgomery
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Forensic
science errors, epistemics & economics, expectations, Austrian economics
GRANTS,
HONORS, AND AWARDS
External grants
National
Science Foundation (2006-2010) (PI, Roger Koppl; Co-PIs Robert Kurzban &
Lawrence Kobilinsky). ÒDemocratic Epistemics in Lab-Based ProcessesÓ ($130,717)
Earhart
Foundation (2008) ÒExperiments in Support of Market Competition in Forensic
Science,Ó ($20,000)
Earhart Foundation (1996) ÒResearch on Big Players,Ó
($9,500)
Honors and awards
President, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
2005
H. B. Earhart Fellow, 1986-88
C. Lambe Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, 1985-88
F. L. Hill Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, 1985
Austrian Economics Fellow, New York University, 1980-83
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Editorial Activities
Series editor, Advances in Austrian Economics, JAI Press/Emerald.
Book-review
editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Co-editor
with Alain Marciano, special issue of Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, ÒCharles DarwinÕs Theory of Social
Evolution,Ó 2009, 71(1).
Co-editor with Peter Boettke, special issue of Review of Austrian Economics, ÒAlfred Schutz and the Economists,Ó 2001,
14 (2/3).
Books
authored
Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 (winner of the annual best-book
prize, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics).
edited and co-edited
Explorations in Austrian Economics, volume 11 of Advances
in Austrian Economics, Bingley, UK: JAI Press, an imprint of Emerald Group
Publishing, 2008.
Cognition and Economics, with Carine KreckŽ and Elisabeth
KreckŽ, volume 9 of Advances in Austrian Economics, Amsterdam: JAI, an imprint of Elsevier
Science, 2006.
Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland Yeager, New
York: Routledge, 2006.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, volume 7 of Advances
in Austrian Economics, Amsterdam: JAI, an
imprint of Elsevier Science, 2004.
Austrian Economics and Entrepreneurial Studies, volume 6 of Advances
in Austrian Economics, Amsterdam: JAI, an
imprint of Elsevier Science, 2003.
Subjectivism and Economic Analysis: Essays in Memory
of Ludwig Lachmann, with Gary Mongiovi, London and New York: Routledge,
1998.
Journal
Articles
ÒThe
Social Construction of Expertise,Ó Society, forthcoming.
ÒRational
Bias in Forensic Science,Ó with D. Glen Whitman, Law, Probability and Risk,
2010, forthcoming.
ÒThe
Preaching Must Never Stop: Remembering Larry Moss,Ó American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, 2010, 69(1).
ÒOrganization
economics explains many forensic science errors,Ó Journal of Institutional Economics, 2010, 6(1): 71-81.
ÒA battle
of forensic experts is not a race to the bottom,Ó with E. J. Cowan Review of
Political Economy, 2010, forthcoming.
ÒDarwin,
Darwinism and social Darwinism: What do we learn from Darwin's theory of social
evolution?Ó Introduction to special issue of Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, ÒCharles DarwinÕs Theory of Social
Evolution,Ó 2009, 71(1): 1-3.
ÒComputable Entrepreneurship,Ó Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, 2008, 32(5): 919-926.
ÒEpistemics
for Forensics,Ó with Robert Kurzban and Lawrence Kobilinsky, Epistmeme: Journal of Social Epistemology,
2008, 5(2): 141-159.
ÒDiversity
and Forensics: Diversity in Hiring is Not Enough,Ó Medicine, Science and the Law, 2007, 47(2): 117-124.
ÒAustrian
Economics at the Cutting Edge,Ó Review of
Austrian Economics, 2006, 19(4):231-241.
ÒEpistemic
Systems,Ó Episteme: Journal of Social
Epistemology, 2005, 2(2): 91-106.
ÒHow to
Improve Forensic Science,Ó European
Journal of Law and Economics, 2005, 20(3): 255-286.
ÒRational-Choice Hermeneutics,Ó with Douglas Glen Whitman, Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, 2004, 55(3): 295-317.
ÒRandom Walk Hypothesis Testing and the Compass Rose,Ó with Sorin Tuluca,
Finance Letters, 2004, 2 (1): 14-17.
ÒCarabelli and De Vecchi on Keynes and Hayek,Ó with Willam Butos, Review
of Political Economy, 2004, 16(2): 239-247.
ÒBig Players in Slovenia,Ó with Dusan Mramor, Review of Austrian
Economics, 2003, 16(2/3): 253-269.
ÒAll That I Have to Say Has Already Crossed Your Mind,Ó with Barkley
Rosser, Metroeconomica, 2002, 53(4): 339-360.
ÒCustom and Rules,Ó American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2002,
61(2): 531-537.
ÒWhat is Alertness?Ó Journal des Economistes
et des Etudes Humaines, 2002, 12(1): 3-13.
ÒOrganization and Language Games,Ó with Richard Langlois, Journal of
Management and Governance, 2001, 5(3-4): 287-305.
ÒBig Players en la ÔNueva Econom’a,ÕÓ with Ivo Sarjanovic, Libertas,
2001, 35(1).
ÒThe Angular Distribution of Asset Returns in Delay Space,Ó with Carlo
Nardone, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2001, 6: 101-120.
ÒIntroductionÓ
to Special Issue on Alfred SchŸtz Centennial, with Peter Boettke, Review of
Austrian Economics, 2001, 14 (2/3): 111-117.
ÒSchutz
and Shackle: Two Views of Choice,Ó Review
of Austrian Economics, 2001, 14 (2/3): 181-191.
ÒConfidence in Keynes and Hayek: reply
to Burczak,Ó with William Butos, Review
of Political Economy, 2001, 13(1): 81-86.
ÒMachlup
and Behavioralism,Ó Industrial and Corporate Change, 2000 9(4): 595-622.
ÒKoppl on
the New York University Seminar,Ó pp. 390-394 of ÒProfessor Ludwig M. Lachmann
(1906-1990): Scholar, Teacher, and Austrian School Critic of Late Classical
Formalism,Ó a roundtable
discussion appearing in American Journal
of Economics and Sociology, 2000, 59(3): 367-417.
ÒThe
Unintended Consequences of Entrepreneurship,Ó with Maria Minniti, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes
Humaines, 1999, 9(4):567-586. Reprinted in Alta Gerencia
Septiembre/Octubre 2002, pp: 24-40.
As noted below, an updated version will appear as ÒEntrepreneurship and
the Invisible Hand,Ó in Entrepreneur and
Enterprise, lights and shadows from the Italian experience, McGrawHill.
2010.)
ÒBig Players and the Russian Ruble: Explaining Volatility Dynamics,Ó
with John Broussard, Managerial Finance,
1999, 25(1): 49-63.
ÒHayek and Kirzner at the Keynesian Beauty Contest,Ó with
William Butos, Journal des Economistes et
des Etudes Humaines, 1999, 9(2/3): 257-275.
ÒThe
Varieties of Subjectivism: Keynes and Hayek on Expectations,Ó with William
Butos, History of Political Economy,
1997, 29(2): 327-359.
ÒMises and
Schutz on Ideal Types,Ó Cultural Dynamics,
1997, 9(1): 63-76.
ÒComplex
Bubble Persistence in Closed-End Country Funds,Ó with Ehsan Ahmed, J.Barkley
Rosser, and Mark V. White, Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, 1997, 32(1): 19-37.
ÒIt is
High Time we take our Ignorance more Seriously,Ó International Review of Financial Analysis, 1996, 5(3): 259-72.
ÒBig
Players and Herding in Asset Markets: The Case of the Russian Ruble,Ó with
Leland Yeager, Explorations in Economic
History, 1996, 33(3): 367-383.
ÒThe
Walras Paradox,Ó Eastern Economic Journal,
Winter 1995, 21(1): 43-55. Reprinted in Walker, Donald (ed.) The Legacy of
LŽon Walras (2 volumes), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001.
ÒHayekian
Expectations: Theory and Empirical Applications,Ó with William Butos, Constitutional Political Economy, Fall
1993, 4(3): 303-29.
ÒPrice
Theory as Physics: The Cartesian Influence on Walras,Ó Methodus, December 1992, 4(2). Reprinted in Walker, Donald (ed.) The
Legacy of LŽon Walras (2 volumes), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar,
2001.
ÒInvisible-Hand
Explanations and Neoclassical Economics: Toward a Post Marginalist Economics,Ó Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, June 1992, 148(2): 292-313. Reprinted in Gloria-Palermo, Sandye (ed.) Modern Austrian
Economics (3 volumes), London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002.
ÒAnimal
SpiritsÓ Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Summer 1991, 5(3): 2 203-10.
ÒFritz
Machlup and Marginalism: A Reevaluation,Ó with Richard N. Langlois, Methodus, December 1991, 3(2): 86-102.
Book
Chapters
ÒConfessions
of a Neuro-Hayekian,Ó in Butos, William N. editd, The Social Science of HayekÕs The Sensory Order, volume 12 of Advances in Austrian Economics, 2010,
forthcoming.
ÒEntrepreneurship
and the Invisible Hand,Ó with Maria Minniti, in Entrepreneur and Enterprise, lights and shadows from the Italian
experience. Dossena, Giovanna (ed.), Milano, McGrawHill. 2010,
forthcoming. (This is an updated
version of ÒThe Unintended Consequences of Entrepreneurship,Ó listed above,
which was published in Journal des
Economistes et des Etudes Humaines in 1999.)
ÒRomancing
Forensics: Legal Failure in Forensic Science Administration,Ó in Lopez, Edward,
edited, Government Failure in the Legal
System: A Public Choice Review of the Law, Palgrave, 2010, forthcoming.
ÒComplexity
and Austrian Economics,Ó in J. Barkley Rosser, Jr, ed. Handbook on Complexity Research. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009.
ÒAlfred
Schutz and Fritz Machlup,Ó with Mie Augier. In in Nasu, Hisashi, Lester Embree, George Psathas, Ilja
Srubar (eds.) Alfred Schutz and his
Intellectual Partners. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaf, 2009.
ÒIntroduction,Ó
to Koppl, Roger edited, Explorations in
Austrian Economics, volume 11 of Advances in Austrian Economics,
Bingley, UK: JAI Press, an imprint of Emerald Group Publishing, 2008.
ÒScientific
Hermeneutics: A Tale of Two Hayeks,Ó in Koppl, Roger edited, Explorations in Austrian Economics,
volume 11 of Advances in Austrian Economics, Bingley, UK: JAI Press, an
imprint of Emerald Group Publishing, 2008.
ÒEntrepreneurship
and Human Action,Ó With M. Minniti. In Non-Market
Entrepreneurship, G. Shockley, P. Frank, and R. Stough, eds. Edgar Elgar,
2008.
ÒEntrepreneurial
Behavior as a Human Universal,Ó in Minniti, Maria, edited, Entrepreneurship: The Engine of Growth, volume 1, People, Westport, CT and London:
Praeger, 2006.
ÒDoes The
Sensory Order Have a Useful Economic Future?Ó with William Butos, in Koppl,
KreckŽ, and KreckŽ (eds.) Cognition and
Economics, volume 9 of Advances in Austrian Economics, Amsterdam: JAI, an imprint of Elsevier
Science, 2006.
ÒA Zeal
for Truth,Ó in Koppl, Roger, edited, Money
and the Market Process: Essays in Honor of Leland Yeager, New York:
Routledge, 2006.
ÒBig
Players and Money Demand,Ó with Catherine Gilanshah, in Backhaus, JŸrgen
edited, Modern Applications of Austrian
Thought, 2005.
ÒEconomics
Evolving: An Introduction to the Volume,Ó in Evolutionary Psychology and
Economic Theory, volume 7 of
Advances in Austrian Economics, 2004.
ÒGains
From Trade Between Austrian Economics and Entrepreneurial Studies: An
Introduction to the Volume,Ó in Austrian
Economics and Entrepreneurial Studies, volume 6 of Advances in Austrian
Economics, 2003.
ÒBig
Players in the ÔNew Economy,ÕÓ with Ivo Sarjanovic, in Birner, Jack, ed. Austrian
Perspectives on the New Economy, Routledge, 2003.
ÒMarket
Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies,Ó with Maria Minniti, in Acs, Z.J. and D.B.
Audretsch, ed. Handbook of Entrepreneurial Research, Kluwer, 2003.
ÒScience
as a Spontaneous Order: An Essay in the Economics of Science,Ó with William
Butos, in Jensen, H. S., Vendeloe, M., and Richter,L., ed. The Evolution of
Scientific Knowledge, Edward Elgar, 2003.
ÒTeaching Complexity: An Austrian Approach,Ó in Colander,
David, ed. The Complexity Vision and the
Teaching of Economics, Edward Elgar, 2000.
ÒThe
Policy Implications of Complexity: An Austrian Perspective,Ó in Colander,
David, ed. The Complexity Vision and the
Teaching of Economics, Edward Elgar, 2000.
ÒApriorism
and Dualism,Ó Advances in Austrian
Economics, volume 5, 1998, 5: 159-179.
ÒIntroduction,Ó
to Koppl and Mongiovi eds. Subjectivism
and Economic Analysis: Essays in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann, London and New
York: Routledge, 1998. Co-authored with Mongiovi.
ÒLachmann
on the Subjectivism of Active Minds,Ó in Koppl and Mongiovi edited, Subjectivism and Economic Analysis: Essays
in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann, London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
ÒMan has
Fallen and He Can't Get Up,Ó in Mary Cross edited Advertising and Culture: Theoretical Perspectives. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1996.
ÒWhen Do
Ideas Matter? A Study in the Natural Selection of Social Games,Ó with Richard N.
Langlois, Advances in Austrian Economics,
1994, vol.1: 81-104.
ÒLachmann on Schutz and Shackle,Ó Advances in Austrian Economics, 1994, vol. 1: 289-301.
ÒSome
Possibly Postmodern Thoughts on Authority or How to Make the Good Society
without Really Trying,Ó in Oxman, Wendy and Mark Weinstein, edited, Critical Thinking as an Educational Ideal,
Montclair, New Jersey: Institute for Critical Thinking, 1993.
ÒWhat is
the Public Interest?Ó in McGee, Robert, edited, Business Ethics and Common Sense, Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1992.
Other Scholarly Publications
ÒAuthorsÕ
Response,Ó with Dan Krane and nine others, The
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2009, 54(6): 1500-1501.
ÒReview of
Evolutionary Forensic Science,Ó Evolution & Human Behavior, 2009, 30(5): 377-379.
ÒComments on the review of low copy
number testing,Ó with Dan Krane and four others, International Journal of
Legal Medicine, 2009, 123: 535-536.
ÒAuthorsÕ
Response,Ó with Dan Krane and nine others, The
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2009, 54(2): 501.
ÒSequential
Unmasking: A means of Minimizing Observer Effects in Forensic DNA
Interpretation,Ó with Dan Krane and nine others, The Journal of Forensic Sciences, letter to the editor, 2008,
53(4): 1006-1007.
ÒThinking
Impossible Things: A Review Essay on Computability,
Complexity and Constructivity in Economic Analysis,Ó Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizaiton, 2008, 66:
837-847.
ÒDemocratic
Epistemics: An Experiment on How to Improve Forensic Science," Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max
Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group, working paper
#0609, 2006.
ÒReview of
Bruce Caldwell, HayekÕs Challenge:
An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek,Ó Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organizaiton,
2006, 59(2): 287-291.
ÒReview of
Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten, editors, Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox, Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organizaiton, 2003, 53(3): 431-434.
ÒReview of
John SuttonÕs MarshallÕs Tendencies:
What Can Economists Know?Ó Southern Economic Journal, 2002,
68(3):734-738.
ÒReview of
Jon ElsterÕs Alchemies of the Mind,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizaiton, 2001, 45(3): 332-335.
ÒReviewÓ
of Rationality, Institutions and Economic
Methodology ed. by Make, Gustafsson and Knudsen, Advances in Austrian Economics, 1997, 4: 241-245.
ÒReview of
Lawrence A. Boland's Principles of
Economics: Some Lies My Teachers Told Me,Ó Review of Political Economy, 1996, 8(3): 334-38.
ÒIdeal
Types,Ó in Boettke, Peter J. edited, The
Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994.
ÒInvisible-Hand
Explanations,Ó in Boettke, Peter J. edited, The
Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994.
ÒReview of
Israel Kirzner's The Meaning of Market
Process,Ó Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, 1994, 24(2): 245-48.
ÒReply to
Ozawa, Moggridge, and Visser,Ó Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Summer 1992, 6(3): 211-12.
ÒIn Memory
of Ludwig M. Lachmann,Ó Austrian Economics Newsletter, Winter/Spring
1991: 8-9.
Senior
Researcher, Pennsylvania Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania, 2005- present.
Senior
Researcher, Florham Laboratory for Experimental Social Science, Fairleigh
Dickinson University, 2008
Executive
Board, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, 2004-2007
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
-ÒAn
overview of the forensic-science process from criminal act to criminal court,Ó
a talk presented to senior litigants of the Virginia Indigent Defense
Commission (their public defenderÕs office) 15 May 2009.
-ÒMisfired
Criticisms,Ó CAC News: News of the California Association of Criminalist, second
quarter 2009, pp. 8-9. (Letter
responding to criticisms in Gestring, B., ÒThe Dawn of the Forensic Science
Provocateur,Ó CAC News: News of the California Association of Criminalist,
first quarter 2009, pp. 25-28.
- ÒAnalyze
This!Ó Interview conducted by Norah Rudin and Keith Inman for CAC News: News
of the California Association of Criminalist, first quarter 2009, pp.
7-9. (I was interviewed for the
ÒProceedings of LunchÓ feature.)
-
BrightTalk web seminar, ÒHow to Improve Forensic Science,Ó 4 December
2008. Available at http://www.brighttalk.com/
-
Panelist, General Session, Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists,
ÒDebating the Science in Forensic Science,Ó 3 October 2008.
-
BrightTalk web seminar, ÒBayesian Bias in Forensic Science,Ó 30 September
2008. Available at
http://www.brighttalk.com/webcasts/986/play
- Op ed
proposing a defense right of forensic expertise, with Dan Krane, published in
several newspapers, 12-17 August 2008, including Newark Star-Ledger, The
Olympian (Olympia, Washington), Hartford Courant (Sunday edition), Herald-Leader
(Lexington, Kentucky; Sunday edition), Lake Wylie Pilot (Lake Wylie,
South Carolina), Daily Herald (Provo, Utah), The Modesto Bee
(Modesto, California), Tricity Herald (south-central Washington), The
News & Observer (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Belleville
News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois), The Bellingham Herald
(Bellingham, Washington), The Fresno Bee (Fresno, California) and the Anchorage
Daily News.
- Speaker,
Forensic Bioinformatics 7th Annual Confernce, ÒThe Science of DNA
Profiling: A National Expert Forum,Ó 15-17 August 2008.
- Slate magaine, ÒC.S. Oy,Ó with
Radley Balko,12 August 2008.
- Forbes magazine, ÒWhatÕs Wrong With CSI:
Forensic evidence doesnÕt always tell the truth,Ó for ÒOn my MindÓ column, 2
June 2008. http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2008/0602/038.html
- Engage, a publication of the Federalist
Society, ÒForensic Science Needs Check and Balances,Ó with Radley Balko, June
2008, 9(2): 46-50.
-Panelist
and presenter, Science in the Courtroom
for the 21st Century: Issues in Forensic DNA, a seminar Presented by the
DePaul Center for Science and the Law and the Office of the Cook County Public
Defender, 9 May 2008.
--Panel:
ÒLaboratory Oversight, Practice and EconomicsÓ
--Presentation:
ÒForensic CounselÓ
- Reason Foundation Policy Study 364, ÒCSI
for Real: How to Improve Forensic Science,Ó 2007.
- Reason magazine, ÒBreaking Up the
Forensics Monopoly: Eight ways to fix a broken system,Ó November 2007.
- Pro bono
consultant to the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia, 2007-
present.
- National
Academy of Sciences committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences
Community, 20 September 2007.
(http://www7.nationalacademies.org/stl/Forensics.html)
- KION,
20-minute radio interview, 27 June 2007
-
Reason.com, ÒEnd the Unholy Alliance Between Crime Labs and Prosecutors:
Nifong's been disbarred, but we need to fix the system,Ó 21 June, 2007.
- New York Post, Op-ed, ÒDefense Needs
DNA, Too,Ó 16 April 2007.