Benjamin Powell
Senior Fellow
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Benjamin Powell is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, and former President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. Dr. Powell received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He has been Associate Professor of Economics at Suffolk University, Assistant Professor of Economics at San Jose State University, a Fellow with the Mercatus Center's Global Prosperity Initiative, and a Visiting Research Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. Dr. Powell is the author of more than 50 scholarly studies and the editor of the books, The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy; Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis (with Randall Holcombe); and Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development. He has contributed to numerous volumes, and his scholarly research has been published in such journals as Public Choice, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Private Enterprise, Eastern Economic Journal, Comparative Economic Studies, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Labor Research, Cato Journal, Florida State University Law Review, Review of Austrian Economics and Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.. Dr. Powells popular articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, and web sites, including the Investors Business Daily, Washington Post, FoxNews.com, Charlotte Observer, Orange County Register, San Diego Union Tribune, Boston Herald, and many city business journals. He has appeared on shows such as The Situation with Tucker Carlson on MSNBC, CNNs Lou Dobbs Tonight, and Fox Business Channel's "Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano," and he has debated economic issues on numerous radios shows. His academic research findings have been reported in the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily and over one hundred regional papers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Miami Herald.
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Books | |
Future: Economic Peril or Prosperity? | 2016 |
The Economics of Immigration | 2015 |
Housing America | 2009 |
Making Poor Nations Rich | 2007 |
Video | ||
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell Critiques Socialized Medicine on Life, Liberty & Levin | August 25, 2019 | |
The Economics of Immigration | Ben Powell | January 27, 2017 | |
Senior Fellow Ben Powell on Fox Business Network on Brexit | June 23, 2016 | |
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Events | |
The Secret to Making Poor Nations Rich | February 21, 2008 |
Immigration Wars: Open or Closed Borders for America? | September 21, 2005 |
Independent Review Articles | |
Raveling the Immigration Narrative | Winter 2017/18 |
Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs | Spring 2016 |
The U.S. Economy: The New Normal and an Unsustainable Future | Winter 2015/16 |
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Commentary Articles | |
Congress Must End the Federal Mask Mandate Once and for All | June 6, 2022 |
California Rejects Four-Day Workweek, but Supporters Havent Given Up | May 10, 2022 |
Price Controls and Government Spending Wont Fix Inflation | January 13, 2022 |
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Beacon Blog Posts | |
Tyler Cowen Is Wrong About Great Barrington Declaration on Lockdown Policies | November 11, 2020 |
The Key Indicator for Reopening the Economy Is Hospital Capacity | April 15, 2020 |
'Grand Bargain' Is Bay State's Grand Disaster | October 20, 2018 |
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Catalyst Posts | |
Democratic Socialism: Straight Talk about Twisted Facts | January 30, 2020 |
Those Shaming Amazon about Bangladeshi Factories Should Be Ashamed of Themselves | December 19, 2019 |
China’s Crackdown on Think Tank Illustrates Importance of Hong Kong Protests | October 18, 2019 |
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Presentations | |
Promoting Affordable Housing by Addressing the Root Cause | February 21, 2007 |
Immigration, Economic Growth, and the Welfare State | April 30, 2005 |
Research Article | |
The Economics Behind the U.S. Governments Unwinnable War on Drugs | August 21, 2013 |
Working Papers | |
Taxing Development: The Law and Economics of Traffic Impact Fees | December 12, 2006 |
Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement? | November 30, 2006 |
An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles | May 23, 2005 |
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Policy Report | |
Broken Borders | September 16, 2013 |
Interview | |
Sweatshop Blues: An Interview with Benjamin Powell | March 18, 2014 |