Edward Stringham is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute; Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation and Deputy Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment, Trinity College; former President and Director of Research and Education at the American Institute for Economic Research; former President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education; and a member of the Board of Advisors for both the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation and Center on Culture and Civil Society at the Independent Institute. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and he has been Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Chair for Capitalism and Free Enterprise Studies at Fayetteville State University; Associate Professor of Business Economics in the Area of Energy, Economics and Law in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University; and Associate Professor of Economics at San Jose State University.