Fellows

Senior Fellows

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David T. Beito
Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama
Bruce L. Benson
DeVoe L. Moore Professor and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Economics, Florida State University
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Christopher J. Coyne
Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Economics, George Mason University
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Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty, Independent Institute
Williamson M. Evers
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Educational Excellence, Independent Institute
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Gabriel Gasave
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global Prosperity
John C. Goodman
President, Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research
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Stephen P. Halbrook
Senior Fellow
Abigail R. Hall
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Tampa
Steve H. Hanke
Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Hannan
International Secretary of the Conservative Party
William Happer
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Randall G. Holcombe
DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University
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Phillip W. Magness
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy
Lawrence J. McQuillan
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation, Independent Institute
Michael C. Munger
Professor of Political Science, Economics and Public Policy, and Director the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University.
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Benjamin Powell
Director, Free Market Institute, and Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
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Gregory J. Robson
Visiting Assistant Research Professor at the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame and Co-Editor of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy
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Judy L. Shelton
Senior Fellow, Independent Institute
William F. Shughart II
J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
Randy Simmons
Professor of Economics, Utah State University
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Alexander T. Tabarrok
Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics, George Mason University
Diana W. Thomas
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry, Creighton University
James Tooley
Vice Chancellor (President) of the University of Buckingham in England
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Senior Fellow, Center on Global Prosperity, Independent Institute
Richard K. Vedder
Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Economics, Ohio University
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Robert M. Whaples
Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University

Research Fellows

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Burton A. Abrams
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Delaware
Karen LaFollette Araujo
former President, Hemispheric Studies Institute
Dominick T. Armentano
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Hartford
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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 J. Bean
Professor of History, Southern Illinois University
Scott A. Beaulier
Dean of the North Dakota State University's College of Business
David Beckworth
Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Kentucky University
Linda Royster Beito
Professor and Dean of Arts and Science, Stillman College
K. Lloyd Billingsley
Policy Fellow, Independent Institute
Erwin A. Blackstone
Professor of Economics at Temple University
Peter J. Boettke
University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
Patricia H. Born
Payne H. and Charlotte Hodges Midyette Eminent Scholar in Risk Management & Insurance, College of Business, Florida State University
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois-Springfield
Edgar K. Browning
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Texas A&M University
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Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Advisory Editor of Transition: An International Review.
Christopher J. Calton
Research Fellow in Housing and Homelessness, Independent Institute
Rosolino A. Candela
Senior Fellow of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Mercatus Center
Art Carden
Associate Professor of Economics and Business, Samford University
Thomas F. Cargill
Professor of Economics, University of Nevada
Katie Colton
Utah State University
Vice President for Research, John Locke Foundation
Tyler Cowen
General Director, Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University
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Abigail Devereaux
Assistant Professor of Economics, W. Frank Barton Business School, Wichita State University
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
President of the Mises Institute
Kevin Dowd
Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University, England
Donald A. Downs
Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism, University of Wisconsin
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Martin Eling
Professor of Insurance and Director, Institute of Insurance Science, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Richard A. Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University
Craig Eyermann
Instructor in Business and Mathematics, Axia College, University of Phoenix
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Professor of Economics and Finance, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion, Caracas, Venezuela
Tate Fegley
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh
Professor of Government, Northwood University
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Caleb S. Fuller
Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College
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Gary M. Galles
Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University
Terry L. Gannon
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
B. Delworth Gardner
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
Bradley M. Gardner
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Benjamin Ginsberg
David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Zachary Gochenour
Fellow, Department of Economics, George Mason University
Peter Gordon
Professor of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California
James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management, Georgia State University
Thomas J. Grennes
Professor Emeritus of Economics, North Carolina State University
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Mathematical Statistician, US Census Bureau
Simon Hakim
Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Competitive Government, Temple University
Joshua C. Hall
Associate Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
David R. Henderson
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Emeritus Professor of Economics, Naval Postgraduate School
Elizabeth Bernard Higgs
Adjunct Fellow, Independent Institute
Peter J. Hill
George F. Bennett Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, Wheaton College
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
Morgan E. Hunter
Hoover Institution
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David Isenberg
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Brian Isom
Research Manager, Center for Growth and Opportunity, Utah State University
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Social Enterprise in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
C. Ronald Kimberling
former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education
Daniel B. Klein
Professor of Economics, George Mason University; co-author of FDAReview.org
Peter G. Klein
Research Associate, Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, Baylor University
Robert W. Klein
Associate Professor and director at the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research, Georgia State University
Andrew N. Kleit
Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Roger G. Koppl
Professor of Economics and Finance, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Emre Kuvvet
Associate Professor of Finance, Nova Southeastern University
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Edward J. López
BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism, Western Carolina University
Robert A. Lawson
Jerome M. Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University
Dwight R. Lee
Emeritus Chair of Ramsey Professor of Free Enterprise, Economics Department, University of Georgia
Peter T. Leeson
BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, George Mason University
David R. Legates
Retired Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware
Eli Lehrer
President, R Street Institute
Economist, Department of Management Sciences, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
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
Anthony R. Lupo
Chairman and Professor of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri
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
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Douglas W. MacKenzie
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Raymond J. March
Assistant Professor of Economics, Angelo State University
Stephen E. Margolis
Head, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
J. Victor Marshall
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University
Wendy McElroy
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Richard B. McKenzie
Walter B. Gerken Professor Emeritus of Enterprise and Society, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
Thomas Means
Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Economic Education, San Jose State University
Roger E. Meiners
John and Judy Goolsby and E.M. (Manny) Rosenthal Chair in Economics and Law, University of Texas, Arlington
John D. Merrifield
Professor of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio
Robert J. Michaels
Professor Emeritus of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
Jeffrey A. Miron
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Andrew P. Morriss
Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Dean's Endowed Chairholder, Texas A&M University School of Law
Robert P. Murphy
Senior Economist, Institute for Energy Research
Vicki E. Murray-Alger
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
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George W. Nicholson
Retired Associate Justice for the Court of Appeal, Third District, State of California
M. Scott Niederjohn
Professor of Economics and Director of the Free Enterprise Center at Concordia University Wisconsin
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Randal O’Toole
Senior Economist, Thoreau Institute
Lee E. Ohanian
Professor of Economics and Director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Edward A. Olsen
Professor Emeritus of National Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School
James R. Otteson
John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics, University of Notre Dame
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Ernest C. Pasour, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
James L. Payne
Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Director of Lytton Research and Analysis
Jeffrey J. Pompe
Nellie Cooke Sparrow Professor of Business, Professor of Economics, and Francis Marion University Trustee Research Scholar, Francis Marion University
Lawrence S. Powell
Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama
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Linda C. Raeder
Professor of Politics, Palm Beach Atlantic University
R. David Ranson
President and Director of Research, HCWE & Company
Director of Online Programs, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School
Sheldon Richman
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
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
Gabriel Roth
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University
Randal R. Rucker
Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
Assistant Professor of Economics, Duquesne University
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Alexander William Salter
Associate Professor of Economics, Rawls College of Business and the Comparative Economics Research Fellow, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University
Joan T. Schmit
American Family Insurance Chair in Risk Management and Insurance, University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Semmens
Laissez Faire Institute
Emily C. Skarbek
Associate Professor of Political Theory (Research), Political Theory Project and the Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research Seminar, Brown University
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
John W. Sommer
Knight Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of North Carolina
Samuel R. Staley
Director, DeVoe L. Moore Center, College of Social Sciences, Florida State University
Edward P. Stringham
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation and Deputy Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment, Trinity College
Independent Historian
Professor of Economics, National Defense University
Scott Sumner
Professor of Economics, Bentley University
Shirley V. Svorny
Professor Emerita of Economics, California State University, Northridge
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Charles Taliaferro
Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College
Marvin & Warren Boudreaux Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Peter A. Thiel
Founder and Managing Member, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Mark Thornton
Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute
Charlotte Twight
Adjunct Fellow; Professor of Economics, Boise State University
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Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
William J. Watkins, Jr.
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Lawrence H. White
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics, New York University
Associate Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
Ben Wilterdink
Research Fellow
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Bruce Yandle
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Dean Emeritus, Clemson University
Ryan M. Yonk
Senior Research Faculty, American Institute for Economic Research
José Maria J. Yulo
Lecturer in Philosophy and Western Civilization, Academy of Art University

In Memoriam

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Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
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Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, England
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
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Professor, London School of Economics
Anthony de Jasay
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Economic Counsel, George W. Douglas and Company
Former Dean, Michigan Technological University's School of Business and Engineering Administration
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Antony G. N. Flew
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, England
Fred E. Foldvary
Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
Late Eleanore Raoul Professor of Humanities, Emory University
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Lowell E. Gallaway
Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University
Late Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
William M. Gray
Late 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
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Ronald Hamowy
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
Jack Hirshleifer
Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter W. Huber
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
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M. Bruce Johnson
Founding Research Director, Independent Institute; Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
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late Torchmark Professor of Economics, Auburn University
Don B. Kates, Jr.
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Chief Macroeconomist, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
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James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
Professor of Economics, Clemson University
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Director, Heather Foundation
Tibor R. Machan
Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University
William F. Marina
late Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University
Fred S. McChesney
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
Patrick J. Michaels
Senior Fellow, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
Mike M. Moore
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
Cassandra Chrones Moore
Former Adjunct Fellow, Independent Institute
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William A. Niskanen
Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute; former Acting Chairman, President’s Council of Economics Advisers
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President, Sequoia Enterprises
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Ralph Raico
Professor Emeritus of History, Buffalo State College
William Ratliff
Research Fellow and Curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution
Nicholas Rescher
University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Murray N. Rothbard
S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Professor of Economics at George Mason University; Director of the Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy; and General Director of The Locke Institute
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Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
Larry J. Sechrest
Professor of Economics, Sul Ross State 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
Julian L. Simon
Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland
S. Fred Singer
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Richard L. Stroup
Emeritus Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University; Professor of Economics, Montana State University
Professor of Civil Engineering, California State Polytechnic University
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Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Georgia
Robert D. Tollison
J. Wilson Newman Professor of Economics and BB&T Senior Fellow at Clemson University
Gordon Tullock
University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
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Professor of Economics, University of Idaho
Aaron B. Wildavsky
Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Ze’ev Wurman
Chief Software Architect, MonolithIC 3D Inc.
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Leland B. Yeager
Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Auburn University

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