Richard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, USA. He has authored about 30 books and monographs and 200 journal articles across a diverse spectrum of subjects in economic theory and political economy. He was the founding co-editor of Constitutional Political Economy from 1989-1997, and he is currently a member of the editorial boards of Constitutional Political Economy, the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy, and Development, and the Review of Austrian Economics.