After teaching as an assistant and associate professor of economics and business at North Carolina State University, Pasour took a sabbatical at the University of Chicago. His view of economics soon began to change, first being influenced by public choice economists, emphasizing the incentives of government decision-makers versus private entrepreneurs, and then by Austrian economists, emphasizing the role of the entrepreneur in the market process. After reading further Austrian works, such as James Buchanan's Cost and Choice and various articles by Friedrich Hayek, Pasour began to apply Austrian and public choice concepts to his work in agricultural economics. He formed the view that Government regulators cannot do what they profess to do–even when they have the best intentions–because they cannot obtain the relevant information to do so. This view was very different from the mainstream at the time.
