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Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Delaware
Professor of Economics, Oxford University, England
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Director, C.O.Y.O.T.E. Los Angeles
Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Arlington
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
former President, Hemispheric Studies Institute
Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Hartford
Co-Director, The School of Choice
Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Open Quest Media LLC
Professor of Economics, Yale University
Professor of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada
Director, Ecosystem Economics LLC
Executive Director, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, Nigeria.
Professor of Economics, Auburn University
Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
Professor of History, Southern Illinois University
Dean of the North Dakota State University's College of Business
Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, England
Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Kentucky University
Professor and Dean of Arts and Science, Stillman College
Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Clemson University
Eminent Scholar, the William P. Snavely Chair of Political Economy and Public Policy, and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy, Department of Economics, George Mason University
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Professor of Economics, University of Florida
St. Mary’s University
Payne H. and Charlotte Hodges Midyette Eminent Scholar in Risk Management & Insurance, College of Business, Florida State University
Professor of Law and Director of Research, Health Law Institute, DePaul University in Chicago
Professor of Policy Sciences, University of Maryland
William Volkman Chair of Business and Law, Wheaton College
Partner, Brown, Carls & Mitchell, L.L.P.
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois-Springfield
Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Associate Professor of Economics and Business, Samford University
President Emeritus, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
University of Tennessee
Sigmund E. Edelstone Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Director, Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, Pennsylvania State University
Vice President for Research, John Locke Foundation
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Dean, School of Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Lima, Peru
Director of MarComm, Continuous Computing Corporation
General Director, Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University
Chief Economist, New Zealand Institute
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Economist in Systemic Issues, International Monetary Fund
Institute for the Study of Political Economy, Ball State University
Professor of Business, University of Alberta
Professor of Health Care Systems, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of English and History, Manchester Polytechnic, England
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
President of the Mises Institute
Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute
Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy, University of Alberta
Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University, England
Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism, University of Wisconsin
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance Program, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
Scholar Emeritus, Auburn University
Professor of Insurance and Director, Institute of Insurance Science, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School
Freedom, Feminism, and the State (1991) (Contributor)
Hedge fund manager and private investor
Lecturer in the Department of Economics, San Jose State University
Professor, Center for Health Services Research, University of Minnesota
Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Manager, Forensic Economics, Findlay Phillips & Associates
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Fellow in Economics, Auburn University
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Director of the Center on Global Prosperity and editor of ElIndependent.org
Director, California College of Midwives
Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Department of English, University of Texas
Staff Economist, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
Norman Sosnow Professor Banking and Finance and Programme Director of Regulation & Financial Stability in the Financial Markets Group in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics
President, Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research
Professor of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California
James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management, Georgia State University
Director, Health and Welfare Unit, Institute of Economic Affairs, England
Professor of Law, Northwestern University
Mathematical Statistician, US Census Bureau
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Tampa
Associate Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
Clinical Professor Emeritus, Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Ecosystem Economics LLC
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University
Vice Commander, Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
Roads Advisor, World Bank; Lecturer, University of Birmingham
Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Emeritus Professor of Economics, Naval Postgraduate School
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi
George F. Bennett Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, Wheaton College
Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
Emeritus Dean and Erskine Wood, Sr. Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Ford Foundation Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly; former Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union
Science writer, Teacher, and Editor
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Social Enterprise in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education
Owner, Ranchita de Liberta; Co-founder, Reason
Freedom, Feminism, and the State (1991) (Contributor)
Associate Professor and director at the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research, Georgia State University
Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant, Institute for Risk and Insurance Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (Munich)
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Professor of Economics and Finance, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism, Western Carolina University
Professor of Economics, University of Rochester
Former Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
Jerome M. Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University
Emeritus Chair of Ramsey Professor of Free Enterprise, Economics Department, University of Georgia
Retired Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware
President, R Street Institute
Economist, Department of Management Sciences, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Gerald D. Stephens CPCU Chair in Risk Management and Insurance, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation, University of Texas, Dallas
Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
Vice President and Director of the Open Society Project, Niskanen Center
Professor of Economics at California State University, Northridge
Chairman and Professor of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri
J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Head, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Senior Research Scientist, University of Dayton
Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Former Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation, Independent Institute
Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Economic Education, San Jose State University
Professor of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio
Former attorney advisor to a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Executive Director, Reason Public Policy Institute
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Director, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Dean's Endowed Chairholder, Texas A&M University School of Law
Professor of Political Science, Economics and Public Policy, and Director the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University.
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Editor)
Senior Economist, Institute for Energy Research
Senior Consultant, Health Management Associates
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago
Senior Fellow, Thoreau Institute
Professor of Economics and Founder, IRIS Center, University of Maryland
Editor and Publisher, Innovation Briefs
John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics, University of Notre Dame
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Professor of Humanities, University of the Arts
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
Deputy Director, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State Unversity
Bendheim Professor; Professor of Health Care Management; and Professor of Business and Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Director of Lytton Research and Analysis
Dean Professor of Social Sciences, Lafayette College
John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair of History, St. Louis University
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Professor of Economics, University of Houston
Professor of Economics, Carleton University
Dean and Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Nellie Cooke Sparrow Professor of Business, Professor of Economics, and Francis Marion University Trustee Research Scholar, Francis Marion University
Director, Free Market Institute, and Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama
Executive Director, Resources for Independent Thinking; Founder, Association of Libertarian Feminists
Freedom, Feminism, and the State (1991) (Contributor)
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Director, Policy Sciences Center, Florida State University
Professor in the College of Arts and Science at George Mason University
Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Professor of Economics, Texas A & M University
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Francis Marion University
Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Manager, Private Finance Team, Highways Agency, United Kingdom Department of Transport
International Trade Program, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Professor of Law, Yale University
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Professor of Economics, Carleton University
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University
Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii
Former Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Vice President of Industry Analysis, Capital Economics
Assistant Professor of Economics, Duquesne University
Professor of Economics, Université Paris-Dauphine
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
Editor and Publisher, Toll Roads Newsletter
Associate Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi
Co-founder of the Ciocca Center and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Political Economy, Busch School of Business, Catholic University of America
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
American Family Insurance Chair in Risk Management and Insurance, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia; Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute
President, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, India
Senior Fellow, Independent Institute
Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University
Former Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
Director, Reliable Energy Education Network
Professor of Law, University of Texas
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
Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship, The Citadel
Associate Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Knight Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of North Carolina
Professor Emeritus in the Urban Education Program, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Director, DeVoe L. Moore Center, College of Social Sciences, Florida State University
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation and Deputy Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment, Trinity College
Professor of Law, New York Law School; President, American Civil Liberties Union
Research Fellow, Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation, Independent Institute
Professor Emerita of Economics, California State University, Northridge
Professor in and the Head of the Department of History at South Dakota State University
Founder and Managing Member, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Director, Private Corrections Project, Center for Studies in Criminology and Law, University of Florida
Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Business, Wesleyan College
Vice Chancellor (President) of the University of Buckingham in England
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
University Distinguished Professor in the Owen Graduate School of Management, Department of Economics, and Law School at Vanderbilt University.
Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Former Economist, Federal Trade Commission
Professor of Finance and Business Law, California State University, Fresno
Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics, New York University
Chairman, Economic Development and Review Committee, OECD
Associate Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
Horton Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University
Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Associate Professor of Economics, The Citadel
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Dean Emeritus, Clemson University
Fellow in Accounting, University of Mississippi
Senior Research Faculty, American Institute for Economic Research
Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
Professor of Economics, Emory University
former President of the Free Africa Foundation and former Distinguished Economist in Residence in the Department of Economics at American University
Professor of Economics and Director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University; Senior Research Economist and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Princeton University
Professor of Economics, Emory University
Former Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Economic Counsel, George W. Douglas and Company
Former Dean, Michigan Technological University's School of Business and Engineering Administration
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, England
Late Eleanore Raoul Professor of Humanities, Emory University
Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University
Late Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
University Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus, Harvard University
Director, Gus A. Stavros Center for Economic Education, Stavros Eminent Scholar, Florida State University
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Founding Research Director, Independent Institute; Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
late Torchmark Professor of Economics, Auburn University
Former Emeritus Professor of Economics, Humboldt State University
Chief Macroeconomist, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
David H. and Charles G. Koch Chair of Economics, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason University
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Director, Heather Foundation
Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University
de la Cruz-Mentschikoff Endowed Chair in Law and Economics, University of Miami
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
Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Professor of Finance Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute; former Acting Chairman, President’s Council of Economics Advisers
Founder and President Emeritus, ECRI Institute
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship, Tim and Steph Busch School of Business and Economics, Catholic University of America
former Editor-in-Chief, American Consequences
Research Fellow and Curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution
University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Is Social Justice Just? (2023) (Contributor)
S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
President Emeritus of Rockefeller University and former President of the National Academy of Sciences
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara
Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego
Professor of Law and Economics, Clemson University
Emeritus Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University; Professor of Economics, Montana State University
Professor of Civil Engineering, California State Polytechnic University
Author and Journalist
Freedom, Feminism, and the State (1991) (Contributor)
J. Wilson Newman Professor of Economics and BB&T Senior Fellow at Clemson University
University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
Professor of Economics, University of Idaho
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Carleton University, Canada
Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Late Director, Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Auburn University


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