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Professor of History, Southern Illinois University
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University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
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Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
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President Emeritus, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
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Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
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Richard A. Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University
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Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
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Steve H. Hanke
Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
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Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
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Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly; former Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union
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former Director, National Economic Council, White House
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Publisher, Harper's Magazine
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Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
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Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
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Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Professor of Economics and Finance and Director of the Center for the Study of Business & Government, Baruch College
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John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics, University of Notre Dame
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Charles E. Phelps
Provost Emeritus and Professor of Political Science and Economics, University of Rochester
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Daniel N. Robinson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University; Faculty Fellow of Philosophy, Linacre College, Oxford University
Paul H. Rubin
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University
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Dean Acheson Professor of International and Area Studies, Yale University; Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution
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Professor of Economics, Université Paris-Dauphine
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Professor Emeritus in the Urban Education Program, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
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John B. Taylor
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University
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Richard E. Wagner
Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Paul H. Weaver
Former Washington Bureau Chief and Assistant Managing Editor, Fortune
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Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law in the Antonin Scalia School of Law
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Stephen E. Ambrose
Professor of History Emeritus, University of New Orleans
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Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Professor Emeritus of History, University of Maryland
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Columnist and Author, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
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Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University
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Professor of English, University of Dallas
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Former Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
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Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; late Emeritus University Professor, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University
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Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator, Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Late Professor of History, University at Albany
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Nathan Glazer
University Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus, Harvard University
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
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Emeritus Professor of History, Oxford University, England
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Jonathan Kwitny
Author, Endless Enemies and The Crimes of Patriots
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Merton H. Miller
Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Professor of Finance Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
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William A. Niskanen
Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute; former Acting Chairman, Presidents Council of Economics Advisers
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Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship, Tim and Steph Busch School of Business and Economics, Catholic University of America
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former Editor-in-Chief, American Consequences
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Nathan Rosenberg
Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Emeritus in the Department of Economics and Senior Fellow for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University
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S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Simon Rottenberg
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
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Arthur Seldon
Founder-Director, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England
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Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland
William E. Simon
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Rodney W. Stark
Distinguished University Professor of the Social Sciences, Baylor University
Richard L. Stroup
Emeritus Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University; Professor of Economics, Montana State University
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Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Health Science Center, State University of New York, Syracuse
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Robert D. Tollison
J. Wilson Newman Professor of Economics and BB&T Senior Fellow at Clemson University
Arnold S. Trebach
Professor of Law, American University
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University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
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Gore Vidal
National Book Award-Winner, Playwright, Screenwriter, and Author of the American Chronicle Series of Historical Novels
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Alan Walters
Vice Chairman, AIG Trading Company
Aaron B. Wildavsky
Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Walter E. Williams
John M. Olin Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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Senior Economist and Corporate Fellow, International Economics, RAND Corporation
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