Dave Rose is the co-founder and CEO of the American Civics Academy, an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Economics from Missouri State University.
He has published scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, and his research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Weldon Spring Foundation, the HFL Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Apricity Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In recent years his work has focused on how moral and scientific beliefs provide the cultural foundation of free societies by supporting trust and thereby supporting the crucial institutions that depend on trust, institutions like the rule of law, property rights, contractual enforcement, and voting. He has two books, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior and Why Culture Matters Most, both from Oxford University Press.
Broadly, he uses the power of economic theory to study the connection between culture and human flourishing. He is now creating a new approach to civic education, one that uses economic theory to show how cooperation, not oppression, was the driving force of the rise of America.
He has published scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, and his research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Weldon Spring Foundation, the HFL Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Apricity Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In recent years his work has focused on how moral and scientific beliefs provide the cultural foundation of free societies by supporting trust and thereby supporting the crucial institutions that depend on trust, institutions like the rule of law, property rights, contractual enforcement, and voting. He has two books, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior and Why Culture Matters Most, both from Oxford University Press.
Broadly, he uses the power of economic theory to study the connection between culture and human flourishing. He is now creating a new approach to civic education, one that uses economic theory to show how cooperation, not oppression, was the driving force of the rise of America.