Dr Eric Crampton
Position
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
B.A. (Double Honours, Economics and Political Studies) (University of Manitoba)
M.A. (Economics) (George Mason University)
Ph.D. (Economics) (George Mason University)
Room
524, Commerce Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2824 
Internal Phone: 6824
Email: eric.crampton@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Economics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Background
Crampton joined the department in November of 2003 after completing his Ph.D. at George Mason University. He spent a few months as a post-doc at ZEI prior to arriving at Canterbury. He originally hails from Altamont, Manitoba, Canada. Follow this link to Eric Crampton's homepage.
Undergraduate Courses
Econ 336: Public Economics II (Public Choice)
Econ 224: Economics and current policy issues
Graduate Courses
Thesis Supervision
Crampton eagerly awaits the arrival of a Padawan learner.
Research Interests
- Public Choice
- Constitutional Political Economy
- Public Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
Current Projects
- Partisan patterns in grant distribution
- Linkages between voter preferences and economic policy outcomes
- Effects of expressive voting
Recent Publications
"Relaxing Benevolence: On the Undesirability of Socialist Calculation when Planners are Homo Economicus", Review of Austrian Economics, March 2006 (with Andrew Farrant).
"Expressive and Instrumental Voting: the Scylla and Charybdis of Constitutional Political Economy", Constitutional Political Economy, March 2004, 15(1): 77-88 (with Andrew Farrant).
"Does Cyberspace Need Antitrust?", pp. 363-76 in Who Rules the Net?, Washington, D.C.: The Cato Institute, 2003 (with Donald Boudreaux).
Market Failure or Success? The New Debate, London: Edward Elgar, 2002 (edited with Tyler Cowen).