Joseph or Joe Haslag (born March 28, 1961) is the Department Head and Donald Street Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Before this, he was Professor and Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics for the department of economics at University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. In addition, he is the executive vice president of the Show-Me Institute, a free market research institute based in St. Louis, Missouri. He was also the executive director of the Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center in Missouri. Atthis time, he prepared forecasts and analyzed the effects of tax laws for use by the Missouri General Assembly and administrative units of state government. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University.
Haslag has taught at Southern Methodist University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Michigan State University. He has published his research in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the International Economic Review. His research has been cited in more than 1700 academic papers according to Google Scholar.
He grew up in Springfield, Missouri.