Jordan Hillman

Jordan Hillman, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His expertise includes agricultural and applied economics, institutional economics, public choice, rational choice theory, law, and economics. 

Hillman’s research explores the economic underpinnings of social and legal institutions, including the persistence of historical practices such as bedding ceremonies and adultery trials through the lens of rational choice theory. He also investigates institutional economics, focusing on the determinants federalist forms of government and the evolution of economic systems. 

Before joining MSU Denver, Hillman served as a graduate research associate with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, where he also taught in the area of energy commerce and business economics at the Rawls College of Business. He has also taught economics and business at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, and the Saigon Institute of Technology. 

Hillman earned his PhD in agricultural and applied economics from Texas Tech University, and an MBA and bachelor’s degree in economics from Loyola University New Orleans.