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Board of Advisors

Scott W. Atlas
Senior Advisor and host of “The Independent with Scott Atlas”


Leszek Balcerowicz
Professor of Economics, Department of International Comparative Studies, Warsaw School of Economics


Jonathan J. Bean
Professor of History, Southern Illinois University


Peter J. Boettke
University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University


Boudewijn R. A. Bouckaert
Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium


Allan C. Carlson
President Emeritus, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society


G. Marcus Cole
Joseph A. Matson Dean, School of Law, University of Notre Dame


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
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University


George F. Gilder
Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute


Steve H. Hanke
Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University


Victor Davis Hanson
Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University


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; former Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union


Lawrence A. Kudlow
former Director, National Economic Council, White House


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


June E. O’Neill
Professor of Economics and Finance and Director of the Center for the Study of Business & Government, Baruch College


James R. Otteson
John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics, University of Notre Dame


Thomas J. Peters III
Co-Author, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies; Author, Liberation Management and A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference


Charles E. Phelps
Provost Emeritus and Professor of Political Science and Economics, University of Rochester


Daniel N. Robinson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University; Faculty Fellow of Philosophy, Linacre College, Oxford University


Paul H. Rubin
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University


Bruce M. Russett
Dean Acheson Professor of International and Area Studies, Yale University; Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution


Pascal Salin
Professor of Economics, Université Paris-Dauphine


Vernon L. Smith
Member of the Board of Advisors, Independent Institute; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences; Professor of Economics and Law, the George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, and the Founding Director of the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University


Joel H. Spring
Professor Emeritus in the Urban Education Program, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York


John B. Taylor
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University


Richard E. Wagner
Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University


Paul H. Weaver
Former Washington Bureau Chief and Assistant Managing Editor, Fortune


Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law in the Antonin Scalia School of Law



In Memoriam Board of Advisors

Stephen E. Ambrose
Professor of History Emeritus, University of New Orleans


Martin C. Anderson
Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University


Herman Belz
Professor Emeritus 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 University


M. E. Bradford
Professor of English, University of Dallas


Yale Brozen
Former Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago


James M. Buchanan, Jr.
Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; late Emeritus University Professor, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University


G. Robert A. Conquest
Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator, Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University


Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
Late Professor of History, University at Albany


A. Ernest Fitzgerald
Author, The High Priests of Waste and The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement and Fraud in Defense Spending


Nathan Glazer
University Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus, Harvard University


Ronald Hamowy
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada


Ronald Max Hartwell
Emeritus Professor of History, Oxford University, England


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


William A. Niskanen
Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute; former Acting Chairman, President’s Council of Economics Advisers


Michael Novak
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship, Tim and Steph Busch School of Business and Economics, Catholic University of America


P. J. O’Rourke
former Editor-in-Chief, American Consequences


Nathan Rosenberg
Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Emeritus in the Department of Economics and Senior Fellow for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University


Murray N. Rothbard
S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas


Simon Rottenberg
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts


Arthur Seldon
Founder-Director, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England


Julian L. Simon
Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland


William E. Simon
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury


Rodney W. Stark
Distinguished University Professor of the Social Sciences, Baylor University


Richard L. Stroup
Emeritus Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University; 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
J. Wilson Newman Professor of Economics and BB&T Senior Fellow at Clemson University


Arnold S. Trebach
Professor of Law, American University


William Tucker

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


Alan Walters
Vice Chairman, AIG Trading Company


Aaron B. Wildavsky
Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley


Walter E. Williams
John M. Olin Professor of Economics, George Mason University


Charles Wolf, Jr.
Senior Economist and Corporate Fellow, International Economics, RAND Corporation




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