Professor Tacker is the author of the books:
Overcoming: The Inspiring Story of America’s Freed Slaves, Our Other Greatest Generation, Amazon, 2019, and
Rethinking Consumer Protection: Escaping Death by Regulation, Lexington Books | Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
He is also the author of numerous academic articles and co-author of Introduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to Applications, 3rd ed.,by Bijan Vasigh, Kenneth Fleming and Thomas Tacker. Routledge: 2018.
Professor Tacker won the National Federation of Independent Businesses Award For Most Outstanding Paper On Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. He has also won several teaching awards, including the prestigious Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. In addition to his present position at Embry-Riddle, over the years Professor Tacker has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forrest University, N.C. State University, Salem College, Rollins College and the University of Central Florida.
He is happily married to his editor and heartthrob, Nancy Tacker; they have been blessed with three children and two grandchildren (so far).
Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Management, ݮƵ
Grants and Awards (partial listing)
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies 2019 Grant for student research assistants.
Atlas Foundation 2018 Travel/Seminar Grant
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies 2018 Grant for student research assistants, other expenses.
Member of the Executive Board of the Association of Private Enterprise Educators, Spring 2000 to 2004.
1996 Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education for Managerial Economics Distance Learning Course Design.
1995 National Federation of Independent Businesses Award Most Outstanding Paper On Entrepreneurship and Public Policy for Overcoming Employment Discrimination through Entrepreneurship, APEE Journal of Free Enterprise.