Dr. R. Mark Isaac

Dr. R. Mark Isaac is the John and Hallie Quinn Eminent Scholar and Department Chair of Economics at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Science from Caltech in 1981 and taught for many years at the University of Arizona before moving to Tallahassee in 2001. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, which can be found on his website at mailer.fsu.edu/~misaac. His research interests are in laboratory experimental evaluation of issues in public goods provision, auction and mechanism design, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. He is a co-author (with Daniel Friedman, Duncan James, and Shyam Sunder) of the book Risky Curves: On the Empirical Failure of Expected Utility (Routledge, 2014).