Public Finance: A Contemporary Application of Theory to Policy

About David Hyman

David N. Hyman professor of economics and alumni distinguished undergraduate professor at North Carolina State University has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in public finance for more than 30 years. Dr. Hyman received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He has held Woodrow Wilson Earhart and Ford Foundation fellowships and was a Fulbright senior research scholar in Italy. He has served as a visiting research professor at the University of Turin in Italy and as visiting professor of economics at the University of Ferrara in Italy. Dr. Hyman is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University and received the Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award in 1982 and 1996. In 2006 and 2019 he also received the North Carolina State University Department of Economics College of Management Teaching Excellence Award. In 2010 and 2012 Dr. Hyman was the College of Management recipient of the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has authored several popular economics texts and has published scholarly articles in the National Tax Journal Public Choice Journal of Economic Education and other respected academic journals. In 2005 his PUBLIC FINANCE text was translated into Chinese and published by the Peking University Press. Dr. Hyman served on the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers as a consultant and senior staff economist. He has also been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and has worked as a government budget analyst and economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. In addition Dr. Hyman is a photographer whose palladium and platinum prints are in the Corcoran Legacy Collection at the American University Museum in Washington D.C. and the Gregg Museum of Art and Design at North Carolina State University.