Edward M. Miller

Edward M. Miller is the author of over a hundred articles in professional journals. While most are in economics and finance journals, he has recently being writing on topics related to psychology, anthropology, and genetics as part of an effort to understand why some groups are more economically successful than others. Journals he has published multiple articles in range from the Journal of Portfolio Management through the Southern Economic Journal and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology to Personality and Individual Differences. We emphasize here his work on IQ, evolutionary development, and racial differences, although it is only a small part of his intellectual output. Professor Miller has published in an unusually wide range of fields, and as a result can often apply creative insights from one field to problems in another.

Professor Miller earned bachelors degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from MIT (both in three years) where he got a strong basic science training, and he went on to earn a Ph.D. (economics), also from MIT. He then held a series of governmental jobs including service with OMB and the White House where he worked on energy policy. Professor Miller was Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs at Rice University before coming to the University of New Orleans, where he is Research Professor of Economics and Finance. There he teaches in their Ph.D. program in Financial Economics and conducts research on a variety of topics including finance, capital theory, investments, and ethnic differences. His work is often controversial, and as with all professors, represents his own (expert) opinions rather than those of his university. He is married to a lady from Shanghai, China, and enjoys reading, hiking, and traveling the world. He welcomes serious comments of his work and can be reached at emmef@uno.edu.

Controversy

Complete Bibliography

Articles and Essays here and on the Web

• Stranger in the Nest: Do Parents Really Shape their Child's Personality, Intelligence, or Character A review of the new book by David B. Cohen.
• Homosexuality, Birth Order, and Evolution An interesting new theory published in Archives of Sexual Behavior No. 29 (February 2000) No. 5, 1-34.
• Income, Intelligence and Equality Review of The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 39 (Spring 1999) No. 3, 337-354
• A Review and Extension of Why Race Matters, Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 23 (Fall 1998) No. 3, 360-366.
• Do the Ignorant Accumulate the Money?, For the 1997 Eastern Finance Association meeting, Honolulu, Hawii, October, 1997
  
• Intelligence and Brain Myelination: A Hypothesis, Personality and Individual Differences, Vol 17, (December 1994) No. 6, 803-833. (Note: This is the article that won the Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence for research on intelligence)
• Race, Socioeconomic Variables, and Intelligence: A Review and Extension of The Bell Curve, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXV, (Spring 1995), No. 3, 267-291.
• Tracing the Genetic History of Modern Man, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 35 (Winter 1994) No. 1-2, 71-108.
• The Survival of Genes for Stupidity: Consistency of Fitness and Heritability, (Accepted for publication)
• Geographical Centrality as an Explanation for Racial Differences in Intelligence, (unpublished manuscript).
• The Evolution of Australian and Amerindian Intelligence, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 37 (Winter 1996) No. 2, 149-186.
• A Review of Sexual Strategies: How Females Chose Their Mates, European Sociobiological Society Newsletter, No. 41, April 1996, 11-17.
• Could NonShared Environmental Variance have Evolved to Assure Diversification Through Randomness? Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 18, (May, 1997) No. 3, 195-221.
• Environmental Variability Selects for Large Families only in Special Circumstances: Another Objection to Differential K Theory, Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 19 (December 1995), No. 6, 903-918.
• Reported Myopia in Opposite Sex Twins: A Hormonal Hypothesis, Optometry and Vision Sciences , Vol. 72, (January 1995) No. 1, 34-36.
• The Relevance of Group Membership for Personnel Selection: A Demonstration Using Bayes Theorem, Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 19 (Fall 1994) No. 3, 323-359.
• Prenatal Sex Hormone Transfer: A Reason to Study Opposite-sex Twins, Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 17, October 1994, No. 4, 511-529.
• Optimal Adjustment of Mating Effort to Environmental Conditions: A Critique of Chisholm's Application of Life History Theory, with Comments on Race Differences in Male Paternal Investment Strategies, Mankind Quarterly, XXXIV (Summer 1994) No. 4, 297-316.
• Paternal Provisioning versus Mate Seeking in Human Populations, Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 17, 1994, No. 2, 227-255.
• Could r Selection Account for the African Personality and Life Cycle, Personality and Individual Differences, Vol 15, (December 1993), No. 6, 665-676.
• On the Correlation of Myopia and Intelligence, Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, Vol. 118, (November 1992) No. 4, pp. 363-383.
• The g Factor: The Book and the ControversyThe Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 21, (Summer 1996) No. 2, 221-232.
• Climate and Intelligence, Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXXII (Fall/Winter 1991) No. 1-2, pp. 127-132.
• BackFire: Review and ExtensionThe Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 21, (Winter 1996) No. 4.