Please join me and congratulating Dr. Adam Martin, who just successfully defended his PhD thesis -- "The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economic Systems."
Adam is as philosophically astute as any student to come through our PhD program at GMU. Adam came to us after studying with Sam Bostaph at the University of Dallas, and throughout his graduate student career Adam has pursued the history of ideas, methodology and philosophy of science as well as modern political economy. Adam took advantage of opportunities to think deeply about social cooperation with not only his close study of Mises and Hayek, but his close examination of the experimental research on personal and impersonal exchange by Vernon Smith and his colleagues, and the constitutional political economy of James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock. Adam made a particular effort to study Frank Knight's epistemology and economics. Finally, Adam was able to earn a pre-doctoral fellowship to study at Cambridge University with the social ontology group.
Adam is currently a post-doc fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.
Welcome to the academic club Dr. Martin --- job well done. Now saturate the journals with your articles.
Congrats Adam
Posted by: Joseph Onorati | February 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Congratulations Adam! I have been thinking about you all morning and wishing the best for you.
I am very proud of your dedication and the way in which you have always conducted yourself. I feel so blessed.
Love, Mom
Posted by: Emmaline Martin | February 26, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Congrats Dr. Martin. Well-deserved and keep up the good work!
Posted by: Steve Horwitz | February 26, 2009 at 01:04 PM
Congrats!
Posted by: Stewart | February 26, 2009 at 01:30 PM
Congratulations Adam. Not only is your PhD a great achievement, but you also clearly have a cool mom.
Well done.
Posted by: Boris | February 26, 2009 at 01:41 PM
HELLZ YEAH!!!
Posted by: Daniel J. D'Amico | February 26, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Congratulations Adam. As someone who listened to the early Misescreant podcasts, it's been great to watch your intellectual development.
Posted by: J Hall | February 26, 2009 at 03:54 PM
From the looks of it, it should be a good class of newly minted PhDs at GMU this year. Congratulations
Posted by: Zac | February 26, 2009 at 04:59 PM
Adam - Congratulations, I am so proud of you. This is a great accomplishment - Now weclome to the work force and tax paying family - I hope.
Love,
Dad
Posted by: Carl Martin | February 26, 2009 at 05:13 PM
Congratulations Adam! I'm looking forward to reading your future papers.
David
Posted by: David Andersson | February 26, 2009 at 08:17 PM
I have question. Is Dr. Martin smarter that Bob Murphy? Or, did he play the game better?
I have no doubt the coward Boettcke won't answer the direct question.
Posted by: von Pepe | February 27, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Hey little brother your nieces and I are so proud of you congratulations and have fun celebrating, not too much fun!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Andrea
Posted by: Andrea | February 27, 2009 at 09:54 AM
Congratulations, Adam. I look forward to your articles.(No pressure, of course.)
Posted by: Mario Rizzo | February 27, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Congradulations Adam!! Uncle Don and I are both very proud of you and hope that you will get something closer to us and we will get to see you more often. Keep us posted.
Love
Aunt Mary
Posted by: Mary Guillory | February 27, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Congratulations, Adam! So when are you and Dan starting the PhD Podcast?
Posted by: Bob Murphy | February 27, 2009 at 08:41 PM
Congratulations Adam. We now have a doctor in our family. How exciting is that???!!!
Love,
Jaime & Jocelynn
Posted by: jaime | February 28, 2009 at 02:34 AM
This seems an appropriate time for a Star Wars quote...let me see....ah ha..."The circle is complete." Well, that's the best I could come up with this morning, but know this, "Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station", was a close second.
Congratulations are well deserved. I've learned a great deal from you over the years, and I look forward to learning more. Now hire Brock Sampson and get busy saving the world.
Your Big Brother (sans cameras and wire taps),
Chris
Posted by: Chris Martin | March 04, 2009 at 09:33 AM