Roger Douglas Congleton (born November 13, 1951) is an American economist. He serves as the BB&T Professor of Economics at
West Virginia University
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and is the co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''
Constitutional Political Economy
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Career
Congleton received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six regi ...
. He previously taught at
George Mason University
George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
, where he concurrently worked as a researcher at the Center for Study of Public Choice. Congleton has also held appointments at the
University of Bayreuth
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and was a
Fulbright Scholar
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in
Odense
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.
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External links
Personal website (research)
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1951 births
21st-century American economists
Virginia Tech alumni
George Mason University faculty
West Virginia University faculty
Living people
American academic journal editors