Gary Hoover (economist)

Gary A. Hoover
BornAugust 1968 (age 57)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (PhD)
Doctoral advisorMarcus Berliant and Paul Rothstein
Academic work
DisciplineEconomic Inequality, Ethics in the Economics Profession
InstitutionsUniversity of Alabama
University of Oklahoma
Tulane University
Website

Gary A. Hoover (born August 1968) is an American professor of economics and director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Before joining Tulane University, he had taught at University of Oklahoma and University of Alabama.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. He has published extensively on public policy, race, and inequality in the United States, and is a leading scholar on plagiarism and other types of misconduct in the economics profession.