Jim Cox

Retired Professor of Economics and Political Science in Georgia. Taught the principles of economics classes since 1979. Great Ideas for Teaching Economics, at text supplement and website from HarperCollins, includes nine of his submissions.

As a Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies, his commentaries were published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Witchita Journal, and The Justice Times, as well as other newspapers. His articles have also been published in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Gwinnet Business Chronicle, Creative Loafing, and The Margin Magazine.

Cox has served as a member of the Academic Board of Advisors for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and is currently on the Board of Scholars for the Virginia Institute for Public Policy.

He is the author of The Concise Guide to Economics (available in Kindle and Paperback), a short, non-technical and highly readable reference book for those just beginning their study of economics as well as Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage (available in Kindle) a brief explanation of 24 issues regarding the minimum wage, and The Haiku Economist (available in Kindle and Paperback) with 101 haiku, Who's Who in the History of Economic Thought and an Introduction by Art Carden and recently Something to Offend and to Please Everybody and The Haiku Economist II.