Richard E. Wagner Biography Richard E. Wagner is the Hobart R. Harris Professor of Economics and is Graduate Director of the Economics Department at George Mason University. He works primarily in the fields of public finance and public choice. Podcasts See More The Real James Buchanan Richard E. Wagner, Trevor Burrus, and Aaron Ross Powell Politics As a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy Richard E. Wagner, Trevor Burrus, and Aaron Ross Powell