Board of Advisors

• Herman Belz
  Professor of History, University of Maryland
• Thomas Bethell
  Columnist and Author, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
• Thomas E. Borcherding
  Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate School
• Boudewijn R. A. Bouckaert
  Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
• James M. Buchanan
  Nobel Laureate in Economic Science University Professor, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University
• Allan C. Carlson
  President, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
• Robert D. Cooter
  Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert W. Crandall
  Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
• Richard A. Epstein
  James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
• A. Ernest Fitzgerald
  Author, The High Priests of Waste and The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement and Fraud in Defense Spending
• B. Delworth Gardner
  Emeritus Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
• George Gilder
  Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
• Nathan Glazer
  Professor of Education and Sociology, Harvard University
• William M. H. Hammett
  Former President, Manhattan Institute
• Ronald Hamowy
  Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
• Steve H. Hanke
  Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Ronald Max Hartwell
  Emeritus Professor of History, Oxford University, England
• James J. Heckman
  Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
• Wendy Kaminer
  Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly; Member, Board of Directors, ACLU
• Lawrence A. Kudlow
  Chief Executive Officer, Kudlow & Company; Co-Host, Kudlow & Cramer, CNBC; Former Associate Director for Economics and Planning, Office of Management and Budget
• John R. MacArthur
  Publisher, Harper's Magazine
• Deirdre N. McCloskey
  Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
• J. Huston McCulloch
  Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
• Thomas Gale Moore
  Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Charles Murray
  Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
• Michael Novak
  George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute
• June E. O’Neill
  Director, Center for the Study of Business & Government, Baruch College; Former Director, U.S. Congressional Budget Office
• P. J. O’Rourke
  Author, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism, Eat the Rich, and Parliament of Whores
• Tom Peters
  Co-Author, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies ; Author, Liberation Management and A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Diffference
• Charles E. Phelps
  Provost and Professor of Political Science and Economics, University of Rochester
• Paul Craig Roberts
  Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Nathan Rosenberg
  Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University
• Simon Rottenberg
  Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
• Paul H. Rubin
  Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University
• Bruce M. Russett
  Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University; Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution
• Pascal Salin
  Professor of Economics, University of Paris, France
• William F. Shughart II
  Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi
• Vernon L. Smith
  Member of the Board of Advisors, The Independent Institute; Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Professor of Law and Director of the Economic Science Institute, Chapman University
• Joel H. Spring
  Professor of Education, State University of New York, New Paltz
• Richard L. Stroup
  Professor of Economics, Montana State University
• Thomas S. Szasz
  Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Health Science Center, State University of New York, Syracuse
• Robert D. Tollison
  BB&T Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• Arnold J. Trebach
  Professor of Law, American University
• William Tucker
  Author, The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies
• Gordon Tullock
  University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
• Gore Vidal
  National Book Award-Winner, Playwright, Screenwriter, and Author of the “American Chronicle” Series of Historical Novels
• Richard E. Wagner
  Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Alan Walters
  Vice Chairman, AIG Trading Company
• Paul H. Weaver
  
• Walter E. Williams
  Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Charles Wolf
  Senior Economist and Corporate Fellow, International Economics, RAND Corporation

In Memoriam Board of Advisors

• Stephen E. Ambrose
  Professor of History Emeritus, University of New Orleans
• M. E. Bradford
  Professor of English, University of Dallas
• Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
  Late Professor of History, State University of New York, Albany
• Jonathan Kwitny
  Author, Endless Enemies and The Crimes of Patriots
• Merton H. Miller
  Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Professor of Finance Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
• Murray N. Rothbard
  S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Arthur Seldon
  Founder-Director, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England
• William E. Simon
  Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Julian L. Simon
  Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland
• Aaron B. Wildavsky
  Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley