Computation, emphasizing research at the boundary between computer science and economics. As editor of Economic Inquiry from 2007 to 2012, McAfee introduced an innovative "no revisions" submission policy designed to short-circuit long cycles of requested editorial revisions and speed up the publication process. He also served as co-editor of the American Economic Review from 1993 to 2002, and he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. McAfee prides himself on being humorous for an economist, which he likens to being considered "tall for a dwarf." He published the classic article "American Economic Growth and the Voyage of Columbus" in the American Economic Review (1983), poking fun at the counterfactual analyses of economic historian (and future Nobel Laureate) Robert Fogel, as well as various other elements of academic economics. He also started a humor section (called "Miscellany") in Economic Inquiry during his tenure as editor. McAfee is also the author of a textbook on business strategy, Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit, with insights for managers based on microeconomic foundations. Consulting McAfee has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). McAfee has advised on matters concerning mergers, collusion, price-fixing, electricity pricing, bidding, procurement, sales of government property. In 1994–1995, McAfee extensively advised the USA Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the design of auctions for spectrum to be used for personal communications services. McAfee advised the FTC on the mergers of Exxon and Mobil, and of British Petroleum and ARCO. He was an expert witness in FTC v. Rambus, and on the competitive effects of the proposed PeopleSoft-Oracle merger in USA v. Oracle Corporation. References Yahoo Hires Economics, Sociology Researchers, CNet, 10 May 2007. Yahoo! Research Expands Team into Social Sciences, BillHartzer.com, 10 May 2007. SPARC Innovator: R. Preston McAfee, Association of Research Libraries, January 2009. Google antitrust? Ask the one man who can (almost) answer, Cade Metz, The Register, 30 November 2010. External links Preston McAfee's web site R. Preston McAfee's Curriculum Vitae Preston McAfee's publications and citations as listed on Google Scholar "Introduction to Economic Analysis", by R. Preston McAfee Economic Growth and the Voyage of Columbus, by R. Preston McAfee, American Economic Review, September 1983. Edifying Editing, by R. Preston McAfee, The American Economist, Spring 2010. 1956 births 21st-century American economists California Institute of Technology faculty Living people Purdue University alumni University of Florida College of Liberal Arts