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Senior Fellows
- Bruce L. Benson
DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, Florida State University
- Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
- Robert Higgs
Senior Fellow in Political Economy. Editor at Large, The Independent Review.
- Robert H. Nelson
Professor of Environmental Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
- Charles V. Peña
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Benjamin W. Powell
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute; Director, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University
- William F. Shughart II
J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice, Utah State University
- Randy T. Simmons
Professor of Economics, Utah State University
- Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Senior Fellow, Center on
Global Prosperity
- Richard K. Vedder
Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University
Research Fellows
- Burton A. Abrams
Professor of Economics, University of Delaware
- Vicki E. Alger
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Gary M. Anderson
Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
- Karen LaFollette Araujo
President, Hemispheric Studies Institute
- Dominick T. Armentano
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Hartford
- Robert C. Arne
Co-Director, The School of Choice
- June Akinyi Arunga
- George B. N. Ayittey
Distinguished Economist in Residence in the Department of Economics at American University.
- Thompson Ayodele
Executive Director, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, Nigeria.
- Benjamin H. Barton
Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
- Stephen Baskerville
Associate Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College and author of Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland House, 2007).
- Jonathan Bean
Professor of History, Southern Illinois University
- Scott A. Beaulier
Assistant Professor of Economics in Mercer Universitys Stetson School of Business and Economics
- Wilfred Beckerman
Professor of Economics, Oxford University, England
- David Beckworth
Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Kentucky University
- Boris Begovic
Professor of Economics at the School of Law at the University of Belgrade
- David T. Beito
Professor of History, University of Alabama
- Daniel K. Benjamin
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
- Kiran Bhatt
Economist, K.T. Analytics, Inc.
- Erwin A. Blackstone
Professor of Economics at Temple University
- Peter J. Boettke
University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
- Patricia H. Born
Associate Professor in the College of Business at Florida State University
- Boudewijn R. A. Bouckaert
Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman and Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University
- Samuel Jan Brakel
Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Health Law Institute at DePaul University in Chicago
- Timothy J. Brennan
Professor of Policy Sciences, University of Maryland
- Stephen N. Bretsen
William Volkman Chair of Business and Law, Wheaton College
- Matthew E. Brown
Ph.D. candidate in economics at Florida State University
- Jo-Christy Brown
Partner, Brown, Carls & Mitchell, L.L.P.
- Edgar K. Browning
Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University
- Richard C. K. Burdekin
Professor of Economics, Claremont-McKenna College
- Daniel Córdova
- Laurie L. Calhoun
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Advisory Editor of Transition: An International Review.
- Noel D. Campbell
Professor of Economics, North Georgia College & State University
- Art Carden
Associate Professor of Economics and Business, Samford University
- Thomas F. Cargill
Professor of Economics, University of Nevada
- Allan C. Carlson
President, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
- Christopher J. Check
Executive Vice President, Rockford Institute
- Carl P. Close
Research Fellow and Senior Editor, The Independent Institute
- Lloyd R. Cohen
Professor of Law, George Mason University
- G. Marcus Cole
William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Stanford University
- Timothy J. Considine
Director, Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, Pennsylvania State University
- Adriana S. Cordis
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
- Tyler Cowen
General Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University
- Christopher J. Coyne
F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
- Christopher W. Crowe
Economist in Systemic Issues, International Monetary Fund
- Nicholas A. Curott
Visiting Lecturer of Economics and Finance, University of South Alabama
- Terry Daniel
Professor of Business, University of Alberta
- Patricia M. Danzon
Professor of Health Care Systems, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Stephen J. Davies
Professor of English and History, Manchester Polytechnic, England
- Alan Day
Professor, London School of Economics
- Anthony de Jasay
- Robert T. Deacon
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Donald N. DeWees
Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
- Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
- David E. Dismukes
Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
- Justus D. Doenecke
Professor Emeritus of History, New College of Florida
- George W. Douglas
Economic Counsel, George W. Douglas and Company
- Kevin Dowd
Professor of Financial Risk Management, University of Nottingham, England
- Donald A. Downs
Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism, University of Wisconsin
- Stephen P. Dresch
Former Dean, Michigan Technological University's School of Business and Engineering Administration
- Steven J. Eagle
Professor of Law, George Mason University
- Robert B. Ekelund
Edward and Catherine Lowder Emminent Scholar of Economics, Auburn University
- Martin Eling
- Richard A. Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University
- Diego Espinosa
Hedge fund manager and private investor
- John B. Estill
Lecturer in the Department of Economics at San Jose State University
- Williamson M. Evers
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Craig Eyermann
Instructor in Business and Mathematics at Axia College of the University of Phoenix
- Hugo J. Faria
Professor of Economics and Finance at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Caracas, Venezuela
- Roger D. Feldman
Professor, Center for Health Services Research, University of Minnesota
- Fred E. Foldvary
Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
- Kenneth R. Foster
Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Arthur E. Foulkes
Professor of Government, Northwood University
- David T. Fractor
Manager, Forensic Economics, Findlay Phillips & Associates
- H. E. Frech
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Lowell E. Gallaway
Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University
- Paula A. Gant
Fellow in Economics, Auburn University
- B. Delworth Gardner
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
- Adam Gifford
Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
- David Glasner
Staff Economist, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
- John C. Goodman
President and Kellye Wright Fellow in Health Care, National Center for Policy Analysis
- Peter Gordon
Professor of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California
- Brian C. Gothberg
Instructor in American history and the history of Western civilization at the Academy of Art University
- Martin F. Grace
James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management, Georgia State University
- William M. Gray
Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU), head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU, and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
- David G. Green
Director, Health and Welfare Unit, Institute of Economic Affairs, England
- Anthony Gregory
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Thomas Grennes
Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
- David D. Haddock
Professor of Law, Northwestern University
- Jahn K. Hakes
Assistant Professor of Economics, Albion College
- Simon Hakim
Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University
- Stephen P. Halbrook
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Joshua C. Hall
Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College
- Steve H. Hanke
Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
- Ronald W. Hansen
Professor of Management, University of Rochester
- Clark C. Havighurst
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University
- Jeffrey E. Haymond
Vice Commander, Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
- Ian G. Heggie
Roads Advisor, World Bank; Lecturer, University of Birmingham
- Eric A. Helland
Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
- Robert B. Helms
Resident Scholar and Director of Health Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
- Joshua R. Hendrickson
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi
- Elizabeth Bernard Higgs
Adjunct Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Peter J. Hill
George F. Bennett Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, Wheaton College
- Jack Hirshleifer
Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
- William W. Hogan
Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
- Randall G. Holcombe
DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University
- Peter W. Huber
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
- Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Associate Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
- David Isenberg
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute
- Gail A. Jensen
Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
- Dan Johansson
Vice President, The Ratio Institute
- Don B. Kates Jr.
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Charles E. Kay
Professor of Political Science, Utah State University
- Charles N. W. Keckler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
- Robert E. Keleher
Chief Macroeconomist, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
- Michael K. Kellogg
Senior Partner, Kellogg, Huber & Hansen
- Lynne Kiesling
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Social Enterprise in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- C. Ronald Kimberling
Senior Vice President and Provost, Phillips College, Inc.
- Robert W. Klein
Associate Professor and director at the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research, Georgia State University
- Peter G. Klein
Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Public Affairs, University of Missouri; Director, McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Daniel B. Klein
Professor of Economics at George Mason University; co-author of FDAReview.org
- Andrew N. Kleit
Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Pennsylvania State University
- Barbara Klimaszewski-Blettner
- Bruce H. Kobayashi
Professor of Law, George Mason University
- Roger Koppl
Professor of Economics and Finance, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- William E. Kovacic
Professor of Law, George Mason University
- Timur Kuran
Professor of Economics and Political Science, Gorter Family Chair in Islamic Studies, and Associate Director of the Islamic Studies Center at Duke University
- Edward J. López
BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism, Western Carolina University
- Deepak K. Lal
James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
- James A. Langenfeld
Former Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
- Robert A. Lawson
Jerome M. Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University
- Christopher Layne
Mary Julia and George R. Jordan Professorship of International Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
- Cherylyn Harley LeBon
MyGovCost Policy Director and Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Dwight R. Lee
William J. ONeil Endowed Chair Global Markets and Freedom and Scholar in Residence, Southern Methodist University
- Peter T. Leeson
BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, George Mason University
- David R. Legates
Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Research, University of Delaware
- Eli Lehrer
President, R Street Institute
- Pierre Lemieux
Visiting Professor of Economics, Universitè du Quèbec en Outaouais, Canada
- David M. Levinson
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Stan J. Liebowitz
Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation, University of Texas, Dallas
- Cotton M. Lindsay
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
- James M. Lindsay
Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
- Ian S. Lustick
Bess W. Heyman Chair of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania
- Spencer Heath MacCallum
Director, Heather Foundation
- Jonathan R. Macey
J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University
- Tibor R. Machan
Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University
- Douglas W. MacKenzie
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
- William C. MacLeod
Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
- John D. Majewski
Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Stephen E. Margolis
Head, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
- J. Victor Marshall
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Joseph P. Martino
Senior Research Scientist, University of Dayton
- Kenneth R. Mayer
Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
- Fred S. McChesney
Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern University
- Paul W. McCracken
Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy, University of Michigan; former Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors
- Wendy McElroy
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Vern P. McKinley
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Thomas Means
Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education at San Jose State University
- Roger E. Meiners
Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Arlington
- John D. Merrifield
Professor of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Peter P. Metrinko
Former attorney advisor to a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission
- Robert J. Michaels
Professor of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
- Jeffrey A. Miron
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Herbert Mohring
Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
- Mike Moore
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Cassandra Moore
Adjunct Fellow
- Michael A. Morrisey
Director, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama
- Andrew P. Morriss
D. Paul Jones, Jr. & Charlene Angelich Jones Chairholder of Law, University of Alabama
- Michael C. Munger
Professor of Political Science, Economics and Public Policy, and Director the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University.
- Robert P. Murphy
- George W. Nicholson
Associate Justice for the Court of Appeal, Third District, State of California
- Randal OToole
Senior Fellow, Thoreau Institute and Cato Institute
- Edward A. Olsen
Professor Emeritus of National Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School
- James R. Otteson
Professor of Philosophy and Economics, Yeshiva University
- Ernest C. Pasour Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
- Mark V. Pauly
Bendheim Professor; Professor of Health Care Management, and Professor of Business and Public Policy; Wharton School; University of Pennsylvania
- James L. Payne
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Director of Lytton Research and Analysis
- Ilan Peleg
Dean Professor of Social Sciences, Lafayette College
- Lewis Perry
John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair of History, St. Louis University
- Craig S. Pirrong
Professor of Economics, University of Houston
- Andre Plourde
Professor of Business, University of Alberta
- Daniel D. Polsby
Associate Dean, School of Law, George Mason University
- Jeffrey J. Pompe
Nellie Cooke Sparrow Professor of Business, Professor of Economics, and Francis Marion University Trustee Research Scholar, Francis Marion University
- Robert W. Poole Jr.
Founder, Reason Foundation
- Lawrence S. Powell
Whitbeck-Beyer Chair of Insurance and Financial Services and Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Randall J. Pozdena
Managing Director, ECONorthwest
- Adam C. Pritchard
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
- David W. Rasmussen
Director, Policy Sciences Center, Florida State University
- William Ratliff
Research Fellow and Curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution
- Michael Reksulak
Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia Southern University
- Nicholas Rescher
University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
- Harry W. Richardson
Professor of Policy, Planning & Development, University of Southern California
- Sheldon L. Richman
Vice President, Future of Freedom Foundation
- James R. Rinehart
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Francis Marion University
- Paul Craig Roberts
Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Kenneth J. Robinson
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Neil Roden
Manager, Private Finance Team, Highways Agency, United Kingdom Department of Transport
- Robert A. Rogowsky
Director of Operations, U.S. International Trade Commission
- Gabriel Roth
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- P. Nicholas Rowe
Professor of Economics, Carleton University
- Paul H. Rubin
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University
- Randal R. Rucker
Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
- Andrew R. Rutten
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Stanford University
- Matt E. Ryan
Assistant Professor of Economics, Duquesne University
- Barbara A. Ryan
Vice President of Industry Analysis, Capital Economics
- David O. Sacks
Former Vice President, Product Strategy, PayPal, Inc.
- Peter Samuel
Editor and Publisher, Toll Roads Newsletter
- Renuka Sane
Ph.D. candidate in economics, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Frederic E. Sautet
Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
- Joan T. Schmit
American Family Insurance Chair in Risk Management and Insurance, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Kurt A. Schuler
Economics Consultant
- Jordan A. Schwarz
Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
- George Selgin
Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia
- John Semmens
Senior Planner, Arizona Department of Transportation
- Parth J. Shah
President, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, India
- Stephen Shmanske
Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, East Bay.
- Eugenia D. Short
Former Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- S. Fred Singer
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
- David B. Skarbek
- Emily C. Skarbek
- 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
- Russell S. Sobel
Visiting Scholar at the Initiative for Public Choice & Market Process in the Department of Economics & Finance at the College of Charleston
- Ilya Somin
Associate Professor, George Mason University School of Law
- John W. Sommer
Knight Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina
- Joel H. Spring
Professor of Education, State University of New York, New Paltz
- Samuel R. Staley
Managing Director, DeVoe L. Moore Center, College of Social Sciences, Florida State University
- Robert B. Stinnett
Author, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
- Edward P. Stringham
Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Chair for Capitalism and Free Enterprise Studies at Fayetteville State University
- Joseph R. Stromberg
Independent Historian
- Richard L. Stroup
Adjunct Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University; Professor of Economics, Montana State University
- Edward C. Sullivan
Professor of Civil Engineering, California State Polytechnic University
- Paul Sullivan
Professor of Economics, National Defense University
- Adam Summers
Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
- Scott B. Sumner
Professor of Economics, Bentley University
- Shirley V. Svorny
Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
- Alexander Tabarrok
Research Director, The Independent Institute
- Eric R. Taylor
Marvin & Warren Boudreaux Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Peter A. Thiel
Founder, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PayPal, Inc.
- Mark Thornton
Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute
- Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Georgia
- Aleksander Tomic
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Business, Wesleyan College
- James Tooley
Professor of Education Policy, University New Castle, England
- 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
- Charlotte Twight
Adjunct Fellow; Professor of Economics, Boise State University
- Frank van Dun
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Olegario G. Villoria Jr.
President, OGV Consulting, Inc.
- Richard E. Wagner
Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- Thomas F. Walton
Former Economist, Federal Trade Commission
- Michael Ward
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Chaplain of St. Peter's College at Oxford University
- Ashlie Warnick
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University
- Alan Rufus Waters
Professor of Finance and Business Law, California State University, Fresno
- William J. Watkins Jr.
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
- Jilleen R. Westbrook
Professor of Economics, Temple University
- Robert M. Whaples
Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics, Wake Forest University
- Winslow T. Wheeler
Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information
- Lawrence H. White
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- William R. White
Chairman, Economic Development and Review Committee, OECD
- Lawrence J. White
Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics, New York University
- Douglas Glen Whitman
Associate Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
- Thomas D. Willett
Horton Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University
- W. William Woolsey
Associate Professor of Economics, The Citadel
- Bruce Yandle
Alumni Professor of Economics, Clemson University
- Leland B. Yeager
Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Auburn University
- Brenda Yelvington
Fellow in Accounting, University of Mississippi
- Ryan M. Yonk
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Southern Utah University
- José Maria J. Yulo
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Lecturer in Philosophy and Western Civilization at the Academy of Art University
In Memoriam Research Fellows
- Antony G. N. Flew
Late Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, England
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Late Eleanore Raoul Professor of Humanities, Emory University
- Bruce L. Gardner
Late Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
- Ronald Hamowy
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
- M. Bruce Johnson
Founding Research Director, The Independent Institute; Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- David L. Kaserman
late Torchmark Professor of Economics, Auburn University
- Jacqueline R. Kasun
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Humboldt State University
- William F. Marina
late Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University
- William C. Mitchell
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
- William A. Niskanen
Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute; former Acting Chairman, Presidents Council of Economics Advisers
- Carl A. Pescosolido, Jr.
President, Sequoia Enterprises
- Murray N. Rothbard
S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Simon Rottenberg
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
- Larry J. Sechrest
Professor of Economics, Sul Ross State University
- Frederick Seitz
President Emeritus of Rockefeller University and former President of the National Academy of Science
- Bernard H. Siegan
Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego
- John T. Wenders
Professor of Economics, University of Idaho
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