Dr. Edward Nik-Khah

Associate Professor
Department: Business Admin. & Economics
Office: 107 Francis T. West Hall
Phone: 375-4938

nik@roanoke.edu

Degrees:

  • PhD, University of Notre Dame (Economics)
  • MA, University of Notre Dame (Economics)
  • BA, Rockhurst University (Economics, Philosophy, Political Science)

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Course List

Research & Teaching Interests:

Edward Nik-Khah has taught at Roanoke College since 2005. Since 2010 he has been an associate professor of economics. During the 2011-2012 academic year Nik-Khah was a research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. A profile detailing his work at the HOPE Center can be found here.

Scholarly Activities
Nik-Khah's research interests include the political economy of market design, the economics of scientific knowledge, and post-World War II history of economic thought. His research on market design, "A tale of two auctions," won him the K. William Kapp Prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Along with Philip Mirowski, he has critiqued the actor-network notion of "performativity" in Do Economists Make Markets?.

His recently completed research on George Stigler and Chicago neoliberalism appears in Building Chicago Economics and The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics. His research (with Robert Van Horn) on economics imperialism and Chicago neoliberalism has been published in the Journal of Economic Methodology.

Nik-Khah's current research focuses on the history of neoliberal pharmaceutical science and (with Philip Mirowski) the public role of economists during the Great Recession.

Courses Taught
History of Economic Thought, Honors Information Age Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Experimental Economics, Public Finance, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics, Technology and Society

Recent Publications:

  • 2013. "A Discipline in Trouble." Journal of Economic Methodology, 20(1): 86-91.
  • 2012. "Inland Empire: Economics Imperialism as an Imperative of Chicago Neoliberalism." (with Robert Van Horn) Journal of Economic Methodology, 19(3): 259-282.
  • 2011. "George Stigler, the Graduate School of Business, and the Pillars of the Chicago School," pp. 116-147 in Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most Powerful Economics Program, Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, and Tom Stapleford, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2011. “Chicago Neoliberalism and the Genesis of the Milton Friedman Institute (2006-2009),” pp. 368-388 in Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most Powerful Economics Program, Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, and Tom Stapleford, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2010. "George J. Stigler,” In The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, ed. Ross Emmett, 337-341. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar.
  • 2008. “Command Performance: Exploring what STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market.” (with Philip Mirowski) In Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies, ed. Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg, 89-128. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • 2008. “A Tale of Two Auctions.” Journal of Institutional Economics, 4(1): 73-97.
  • 2007. “Markets Made Flesh: Performativity, and a Problem in Science Studies, augmented with Consideration of the FCC Auctions.” (with Philip Mirowski) In Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics, ed. Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu, 190-225. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • 2006. “What the FCC Auctions Can Tell Us about the Performativity Thesis.” Economic Sociology, 7(2): 15-21.

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, 2011-2012
  • K. William Kapp Prize for the best article, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, 2009
  • Roanoke Faculty Scholar Award, Roanoke College, 2008-2011
  • Faculty Summer Research Grant, Roanoke College, 2009
  • Curriculum Development Grant, Roanoke College, 2007
  • Writing Initiative Grant, Roanoke College, 2006-2008
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of First Year Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2003-2004
  • Phillip Moore Research Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, 2002-2003
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2003
  • Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, 2002
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2002
  • Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, 2002
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2001
  • Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, 2001