About Lipscomb
Richard Grant
Professor, Finance and Economics
615-966-5740 p
richard.grant@lipscomb.edu
Office: Swang 208
Education:
- 1987 George Mason University PhD
- 1979 McMaster University BA
Teaching and Research Interests
- Monetary Policy
- Public Policy
- Markets and Morality
- Financial Markets
- International Economics and Finance
- Health-care Economics and Finance
- Methodology of Science
Courses Taught:
- International Economics and Finance
- Debt & Derivatives
- Financial Modeling
- Bank Management
- Financial Institutions Management
- Managerial Finance/ Corporate Finance
- Advanced Corporate Finance
- Investments
- Personal Finance
- International Trade and Finance
- Managerial Economics
- Money and Banking
- Financial Economics
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Austrian Economics
- Industrial Relations and Labor Economics
Professional Experience & Activities:
Currently:
- Board of Scholars, Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Nashville, TN.
- Publications Editor, Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa.
Previously:
- Chief Economist, Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- Director of Research and Publications, Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa
- Contributing Editor and columnist, Financial Mail, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Taught at universities in seven countries
Publications:
Have written numerous analytical and policy articles for "think tanks"; opinion and news articles for newspapers and magazines; and a feature article for Inside Kung Fu magazine.
Inspirational Thought:
- Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight. Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure. - Proverbs 2:3-4
- Taught at universities in seven countries
Publications:
BOOKS:
- Real Money.
Johannesburg (Sandton): Free Market Foundation. (1999)
ISBN 1-874930-22-8
- Nationalisation.
Johannesburg (Sandton): FMF Publications. (1994).
ISBN 1-874930-03-1
- Liberty and Prosperity. (co-editor and contributor).
Cape Town: Juta & Co. (1990).
ISBN 0 7021 2446 X
MONOGRAPHS:
- The Real Reason for the Fall of the Rand.
Johannesburg: Free Market Foundation. (2002)
- Gold, the Euro, the Dollar and the Rand.
Johannesburg: Free Market Foundation. (2001)
- The Workers’ Compensation Board.
Toronto: Ontarians for Responsible Government; National Citizens’ Coalition. (1993)
- The Fallacy of National Control.
FMF Paper#4, FMF Publications, Johannesburg. (1991)
ARTICLES on HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS:
- Equity versus humanity in health care.
South African Medical Journal. 1993, Vol.83 (pp.330-332).
- Acceptable usage of the term 'Cost-Effective'.
PharmacoEconomics. May 1992, Vol.1, No.5 (pp.383-4).
- "Considerations for Future Health Policies." in Private Health Care in South Africa: 1992. Johannesburg: National Association of Private Hospitals (1992).
- Market fallacies in health economics.
South African Medical Journal. December 1991, Vol.80 (pp.558-60).
ARTICLES SINCE 2007:
- Book Review of Meltdown, by Thomas E. Woods. Forthcoming in the Journal of Faith and the Academy, March 30, 2009
- "Treasury program is destined to fail." The Tennessean, March 29, 2009
- "We know the 'plan' is not the answer." The Tennessean, February 19, 2009
- "Government hand is harmful." The Tennessean, December 28, 2008
- "Government has caused this panic." The Tennessean, October 23, 2008
- Preface to Economic Freedom of the World: 2008, by James Gwartney et al.,
South African Edition; Vancouver: The Fraser Institute,
and Johannesburg: The Free Market Foundation. (2008).
- "Government handouts cost more in the long run." The Tennessean, September 23, 2008- "High inflation, same solution." Free Market Foundation, June 3, 2008.
- "Excessive government created vicious cycle." The Tennessean, April 25, 2008
- "Why is the Rand falling now?" Free Market Foundation, February 12,2008
- "Truth is revealed in rest of the story." The Tennessean, September 26, 2007
- Preface to Economic Freedom of the World: 2007, by James Gwartney et al.,
South African Edition; Vancouver: The Fraser Institute,
and Johannesburg: The Free Market Foundation. (2007).
PREVIOUS ARTICLES:
Inspirational Thought:
- Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight. Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure. - Proverbs 2:3-4
FAMILY:
- I am married to Claudine and have two sons, Damian and Byron. We attend Hillsboro Church of Christ.