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Nicholas A. Snow

Visiting Assistant Professor

Wabash College

Nicholas Snow received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2012 where he wrote his dissertation under Peter J. Boettke. Snow’s research interests are primarily on the political economy of prohibition. His other research interests are in Austrian economics, law and economics, public choice theory, history of economic thought, and constitutional political economy.

His first two years out of graduate school he was senior lecturer in the department of economics at The Ohio State University. He taught several courses there including Issues in the Undeground Economy, Government and Business, Economics of Crime, Economics of War, Honors Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, and Current Economic Issues in the United States.

Blog Posts

The battle to make America wet again

March 8, 2017
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Role of Government

Herbert Hoover famously called alcohol Prohibition the “Noble Experiment,” and it certainly began with noble intentions. Prohibitionists expected the absence of legal alcohol would solve a plethora of social ills created by drinking. Their hopes were summed up by the preacher Billy Sunday, who, on the eve of Prohibition, exulted, “The reign of tears is over, the slums will soon be a memory; we will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and children will laugh. Hell will forever be for rent.” For “dry”