The Independent Review features new, pathbreaking, and non-politicized articles and reviews by many of the world’s finest scholars and policy experts in economics, law, history, political science, philosophy, sociology, and other fields. Probing the most difficult and pressing of social and economic questions, The Independent Review uniquely features in-depth examinations of current policy issues viewed in comprehensive historical, ethical and economic perspectives.
The Independent Review’s contents are interesting, informative, wide-ranging, and based on solid scholarship. The Independent Review authors represent a variety of disciplines, intellectual traditions, and ideological perspectives, and articles and reviews that range across the social sciences and related fields. Undaunted and uncompromising, this is the journal that is pioneering future debate.
| Founding Publisher | David J. Theroux, Independent Institute |
| Editor | Robert M. Whaples, Wake Forest University |
| Co-Editors | Christopher J. Coyne, George Mason University Gregory J. Robson, Iowa State University Diana W. Thomas, Creighton University |
| Founding Editor | Robert Higgs |
| Public Affairs Counsel | Christopher B. Briggs, Independent Institute |
| Publications Manager | George L. Tibbitts, Independent Institute |
| Assistant Editors | Ivan Eland, Independent Institute Williamson M. Evers, Independent Institute Lawrence J. McQuillan, Independent Institute Graham H. Walker, Independent Institute |
| Copy Editor | Annie M. Barva |
| Online Manager | Paul J. Theroux, Independent Institute |
| Associate Editors | Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois University Donald J. Boudreaux, George Mason University Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona Roger W. Garrison, Auburn University Peter G. Klein, Baylor University Phillip W. Magness, American Institute for Economic Research James R. Otteson, University of Notre Dame Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College T. Hunt Tooley, Austin College |
| Contributing Editors | Lee J. Alston, University of Indiana Herman Belz, University of Maryland Bruce L. Benson, Florida State University James W. Ely, Jr., Vanderbilt University Steve H. Hanke, Johns Hopkins University Randall G. Holcombe, Florida State University Timur Kuran, Duke University Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara Loren E. Lomasky, Bowling Green State University Gene Smiley, Marquette University Charlotte Twight, Boise State University Richard K. Vedder, Ohio University |
| Board of Advisors | Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University Peter J. Boettke, George Mason University Robert W. Crandall, Brookings Institution Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University June O’Neill, Baruch College, The City University of New York Karl-Dieter Opp, University of Leipzig Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University and Oxford University Pascal Salin, University of Paris William F. Shughart II, Independent Institute and Utah State University Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute Bruce Yandle, Clemson University |
