Diana Weinert Thomas, PhD
Professor
Contact
Heider College of Business
Economics & Finance - Business
Menard Center for Economic Inquiry
HARP - Harper Center for Student Life & Learn
Diana Weinert Thomas, PhD
Professor
In her research, Dr. Thomas explores the unintended consequences of regulation and the role political entrepreneurs play in changing the rules that govern society. She has published in a number of academic outlets including Public Choice, Kyklos, Applied Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. At Creighton, Dr. Thomas teaches Microeconomics and Public Choice.
Curriculum Vitae: Diana Weinert Thomas
Department
Economics and Finance
Position
Professor
Books
- Studies in Public Choice
Thomas Diana W., Thomas Michael D., The Fiscal Squeeze [Book Chapter] 2021 - Studies in Public Choice
Hebert David J., Thomas Diana W., Introduction [Book Chapter] 2021 - The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice : Volume 1
Shughart William F., Thomas Diana W., INTEREST GROUPS AND REGULATORY CAPTURE [Book Chapter] 2019 - Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking
Shughart W. F.,II, Thomas Diana Weinert, Shughart II William F., Regulatory Rent Seeking [Book Chapter] 2014 - Experts and Epistemic Monopolies
Thomas Diana W., The institutional context of epistemic communities [Book Chapter] 2012
Publications
- Public Choice
Thomas Diana, Thomas Michael, Regulation, competition, and the social control of business
193, p. 109 - 125 2022 - Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Thomas Diana Weinert, The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the market for childcare 2022 - Kyklos
Shughart William F., Thomas Diana W., Thomas Michael D., Institutional Change and the Importance of Understanding Shared Mental Models
73:3, p. 371 - 391 2020 - Public Choice
Thomas Diana W., Thomas Michael D., Behavioral symmetry, rent seeking, and the Republic of Science
183:3-4, p. 443 - 459 2020 - Journal of Private Enterprise
Thomas Diana W., Clark Michael, Castillo Humberto Alba, Gomez Kevin D., The law of the taxi
35:3, p. 49 - 62 2020 - Public Choice
Thomas Diana W., Regressive effects of regulation
180:1-2 2019 - SSRN Electronic Journal
Gorry Devon, Thomas Diana Weinert, Regulation and the Cost of Child Care
49 (141), p. 4138 - 4147 2019 - SSRN Electronic Journal
Thomas Diana Weinert, Regulating Away Competition: The Effect of Regulation on Entrepreneurship and Employment 2019 - SSRN Electronic Journal
Blau Benjamin M., Brough Tyler, Thomas Diana Weinert, Economic Freedom and the Stability of Stock Prices: A Cross-Country Analysis
41, p. 182 - 196 2019 - SSRN Electronic Journal
Thomas Diana Weinert, Yonk Ryan, Young Stephen, In and Out of the Commons - Extractive Public Entrepreneurship and the Aggie Blue Bikes Program 2019 - Review of Austrian Economics
Thomas Diana W., A process perspective on regulation
31:4, p. 395 - 402 2018 - Public Choice
Bailey James B., Thomas Diana W., Anderson Joseph R., Regressive effects of regulation on wages, p. 1 - 13 2018 - Journal of Regulatory Economics
Bailey James B., Thomas Diana W., Regulating away competition
52:3, p. 237 - 254 2017 - Applied Economics
Gorry Devon, Thomas Diana Weinert, Regulation and the Cost of Childcare
49:41, p. 4138 - 4147 2017 - Public Choice
Thomas Diana Weinert, Review of 'Bootleggers and Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam Smith and Bruce Yandle, 2014'
163:3-4, p. 401 - 403 2015 - Supreme Court Economic Review
Shughart William F., Thomas Diana W., Intellectual Property Rights, Public Choice, Networks, and the New Age of Informal IP Regimes
23:1, p. 169 - 192 2015 - Journal of International Money and Finance
Blau Benjamin M., Brough Tyler J., Thomas Diana Weinert, Economic Freedom and the Stability of Stock Prices: A Cross-Country Analysis
41, p. 182 - 196 2014 - Southern Economic Journal
Shughart II William F., Thomas Diana Weinert, What did Economists do? Euvoluntary, Voluntary, and Coercive Institutions for Collective Action
80:4, p. 926 - 937 2014 - Journal of Banking and Finance
Blau Benjamin M., Brough Tyler J., Thomas Diana W., Corporate lobbying, political connections, and the bailout of banks
37:8, p. 3007 - 3017 2013 - Kyklos
Thomas Michael D., Thomas Diana W., Snow Nicholas A., Rational Irrationality and the Political Process of Repeal
66:1, p. 130 - 152 2013 - Public Choice
Martin Adam, Thomas Diana, Two-tiered political entrepreneurship and the congressional committee system
154:1, p. 21 - 37 2013 - Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Thomas Diana W., Leeson Peter T., The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker
1:1, p. 84 - 95 2012 - Independent Review
Simmons Randy T., Yonk Ryan M., Thomas Diana W., Bootleggers, Baptists, and political entrepreneurs key players in the rational game and morality play of regulatory politics
15:3, p. 367 - 381 2011 - Public Choice
Thomas Diana W., Deregulation despite transitional gains
140:3-4, p. 329 - 340 2009 - Public Choice
Thomas Diana, Thomas Michael, Behavioral symmetry with humanomics: public choice and moral community, p. - -0001
Presentations
- Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas, The Fiscal Squeeze: State Budgets between Fiscal Illusion, Fiscal Commons, and the Tyranny of Experts 2019
- Diana W. Thomas and Michael D. Thomas, Wagnerian Political Economy: The Next Generation 2018
- Diana W. Thomas, Michael Munger's Tomorrow 3.0 2018
- The Treason of Rules, Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Charleson, SC 2018
- Regressive Effects of Regulation on Wages, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL 2017
- The Fiscal Squeeze, Texas Tech University, Economics Research Seminar 2017
- Regressive Effects of Regulation on Wages 2017
- Between Ignorance and Irrationality - What Political Institutions can Tell Us about the True Culprit in Government Failure Theory 2016
- Panelist, Regulation of Industry, Employment, and Entrepreneurship. Public Choice Society Annual Meeting 2015
- Panelist, The Law of the Taxi: Informal Property Rights Institutions Among Peruvian Taxi Drivers. Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2014
- Panelist: ADR Volatility and Regulation. Southern Economic Association Annual Metting, Atlanta, GA 2014
- Markets for Blood. Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes, New York University 2014
- Expert Witness, The Effects of Regulation on Low-Income Households 2013
- Ignorance, Irrationality and Intransitivity, Market vs. Government Failure and Institutions and Economic Performance. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar 2013
- America is #18, The Isms and Is Rational Ignorance and Oxymoron. Foundation for Economic Education Summer Seminar-Anything Peaceful 2013
- Bootleggers and Baptists, Government vs. Governance and Austrian Macro: The Boom and Bust Cycle. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar 2012
- Ignorance, Irrationality, and Intransitivity, Market vs. Government Failure and Government vs. Governance. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar- Liberty and Current Issues 2012
- Bootleggers and Baptists, Austrian Economics, and Political Entrepreneurship. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar 2011
- Spontaneous Order and the Market Process, Politics without Romance, and Economic Theories of Regulation. The Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar. 2010