Dr. Robert D. Tollison is the Robert M. Hearin Professor of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Tollison received his Ph.D. in economics in 1969 from the University of Virginia. He has served on the faculties at Cornell University, Texas A & M University, Virginia Tech, Clemson University, and George Mason University. He served as Department Head at Texas A & M (1974-76) and as Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason (1984-1998). He also held endowed chairs at Clemson and George Mason Universities. Dr. Tollison has served in government twice-- as a Senior Staff Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1971-72) and as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (1981-83). He is a past president of the Southern Economic Association (1985) and the Public Choice Society (1994-96).

     Dr. Tollison has published extensively with over 20 books or edited collections and over 250 refereed journal articles to his credit. His latest book is Sacred Trust (with Robert Ekelund, et al.), a study of the economic organization of the medieval Church. He is presently working on a major study of the integration of intercollegiate and professional sports.

     Dr. Tollison has served as a consultant on antitrust and other matters to a large variety of clients, including PepsiCo, H. J. Heinz, the National Basketball Association, Anheuser-Busch, Columbia Hospital System, Dyno-Nobel, Exxon, the Federal Trade Commission, Philip Morris, Raytheon, Schering-Plough, Siemens, the U. S. Council on Wage and Price Stability, the U. S. Office of Technology Assessment, and the U. S. Department of the Treasury.