{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:21:46","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roger D. Blair<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" style=\"width:180px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-scaled.jpg 1712w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-1370x2048.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-200x299.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/files\/BLAIR_photo_2013-300x449.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dr. Blair teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Government Regulation of Business and Antitrust Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>His current research examines antitrust economics, law and economics and sports economics. Professor Blair served as Chairman of the Economics Department from 1984 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PHD &#8211; Economics, Michigan State University, 1968<\/li>\n<li>MA, Michigan State University, 1966<\/li>\n<li>BA, Michigan State University, 1964<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Antitrust Economics, Law and Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Economics<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nP.O. Box 117140<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611-7320<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Email:<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"mailto:rdblair@ufl.edu\">rdblair@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdblair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}