Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

In 1973, as part of his military service, he worked as a courier for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as a systems analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (now CNA Corp.).

Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.

He has written columns in outlets such as Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Detroit News, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Times, Fortune,[13] Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily,[14] and National Post.

[17] In 1997, Shughart edited the book Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination for which he won the 1998 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.[relevant?]

He co-authored the 1998 book, The Political Economy of the New Deal with the late Jim Couch, one of his University of Mississippi doctoral students.