Dr Nigel Ashford
Nigel Ashford is senior program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He joined IHS from the United Kingdom where he was professor of politics and Jean Monnet Scholar in European Integration at Staffordshire University, England. Dr Ashford has also directed the Principles of a Free Society Project at the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation in Sweden, and has been a Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation and Visiting Scholar at the Social and Philosophy Policy Center in Bowling Green. He is a recipient of the International Anthony Fisher Trust Prize for published work which strengthens public understanding of the political economy of the free society.
Dr Ashford was also Chairman of the American Politics Group of the United Kingdom. He has been a Visiting Fellow at several national conventions, most recently Philadelphia in 2000. He has lectured in 14 countries, including the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. He is co-author of US Politics Today (Manchester University Press, 1999); Public Policy and the Impact of the New Right (St Martin's Press, 1994) and A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge, 1991), and numerous articles on how ideas influence US politics.
Professor Daniel Klein
Daniel Klein is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. He holds degrees from George Mason University and New York University, where in both cases he studied the classical liberal traditions of economics. His teaching focuses on economic principles and public policy issues. At Santa Clara he is also Director of the Civil Society Institute.
Professor Klein has published research on policy issues including toll roads, urban transit, auto emission, credit reporting, and the Food and Drug Administration. He has also written on spontaneous order, the discovery of opportunity, the demand and supply of assurance, why government officials believe in the goodness of bad policy, and the relationship between liberty, dignity, and responsibility.
Klein is the coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit, editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, and editor of What Do Economists Contribute?
Recently, Klein has coauthored with Alex Tabarrok a comprehensive Web site on the Food and Drug Administration (FDAReview.org), and co-edited with Fred Foldvary a book The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues (New York University Press, 2003).
Klein spends several months every year in Stockholm, where he is an Associate Fellow of the Ratio Institute.
Professor Christopher Lingle
Dr Lingle is Visiting Professor of Economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and Adjunct Scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney as well as Research Fellow for the Centre for Civil Society in New Delhi. He also operates an independent consultancy advising clients on economic and political risk in emerging market economies (eConoLytics.com).
His previous appointments include: Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University (1996-98); Visiting Scholar-Emory University and Adjunct Professor of Economics-Georgia State University (January 1995 to August 1996); Senior Fellow-European Studies Program, National University of Singapore (September 1993 to November 1994); Associate Professor of Economics-Loyola University (New Orleans); Associate Professor of Economics-Miami University, European Center, Luxembourg and Oxford, Ohio (1981 to 1984 and 1989 to 1991), Adjunct Professor-Departement de Droit et des Sciences economiques, Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg (1989-91); Senior Lecturer-University of Natal, South Africa (1984-90). During a sabbatical in 1987, he was invited by the Chinese government to serve as Visiting Foreign Expert in Economics at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Dr Lingle's research interests and publications are in the areas of Political Economy and International Economics with a focus upon emerging market economies and public policy reform in Europe, East Asia, Latin America and Southern Africa. His work has appeared as chapters in books, in the international media, and in scholarly journals that include the American Economic Review, Foreign Affairs, Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Kyklos, and Pacific Review.
His first book dealt with the political economy of Singapore's development (Singapore's Authoritarian Capitalism: Asian Values, Free Market Illusions, and Political Dependency, Fairfax, Virginia: The Locke Institute, 1996). A more recent book anticipated the underlying problems that led to the turmoil in the Asian-Pacific economies (The Rise and Decline of the 'Asian Century': False Starts on the Road to the 'Global Millennium'). First published by Edicions Sirocco (Barcelona, May 1997), a second and third revision were published by Asia 2000, Ltd. (Hong Kong) and distributed by The University of Washington Press and the University of British Columbia Press (June 1998).
Dr Christopher Lingle is a native of Atlanta, Georgia USA (born: 2 October 1948). After earning his doctorate in economics from the University of Georgia in 1977, he has served principally as a university professor. Most of his career has been spent outside the USA, including university appointments in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
Professor Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice. He is director of the James Buchanan Center and the Mercatus Center. He has a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
He has edited the volume Public Goods and Market Failures, and has written Explorations in the New Monetary Economics with Randall Kroszner. He is the author of In Praise of Commercial Culture, on the economics of music and the arts, and Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures.
Dr Cowen has a home page here. The page includes: the first chapter of his current book on the In Praise of Commercial Culture, his ethnic dining guide for Washington DC, and his CV.
Professor Philip Booth
Philip Booth is Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School. Before that, he was Professor of Real Estate Finance (from 2000-2002). He started working at City University in the old Department of Actuarial Science and Statistics in 1988.
He began his career working in the Investment Department of Axa Equity and Law (1985-1988). He has had a period on secondment to the Bank of England (1998-1999) and worked there as a special adviser from 1999-2002.
Philip Booth established his reputation in actuarial science in the fields of investment, finance and social insurance. His work in investment and finance included a number of publications in the real estate finance literature on the role of property in pension funds and the valuation of property with upward only rent reviews as well as on property risk analysis. Other research interests include regulation. Professor Booth also works as Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs
Professor Sir Alan Peacock
Sir Alan Peacock's career as an economist spans fifty years from being a lecturer and later reader in Economics at the London School of Economics (1948-56), taking in Professorships in Economics at Edinburgh (1956-62) and York where he founded the Economics Department (1962-78). He ended his full-time academic career as Professor of Economics at Buckingham (1978-84) where he also negotiated the award of its Royal Charter when Principal and later Vice Chancellor (1980-84).
He has taught and researched mainly in the economics of public policy with over 30 books and pamphlets and 200 professional articles as publications. He has served on various UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Economic Adviser, UK Department of Trade and Industry (1973-76), being knighted for public service in 1987. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Italian National Academy dei Lincei (Rome) and of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
In his 'official' retirement he became joint founder of the David Hume Institute, Edinburgh, serving as its first Executive Director (1985-91). He is still 'enjoyably busy', extending his research interests to include the economics of legal systems and, unusually, the economics of the creative and performing arts.
Dr Richard Ebeling
Richard M. Ebeling is president of The Foundation for Economic Education in New York. Prior to his appointment at FEE, he was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, and served as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation (1989-2003).
Born in New York City in 1950, he received his BA in economics from California State University, Sacramento, and his MA in economics from Rutgers University. Professor Ebeling has been a lecturer in economics at the National University of Ireland at Cork (1981-1983), assistant professor of economics at the University of Dallas (1984-1988), and Ludwig von Mises professor of economics at Hillsdale (1988-2003). He has been at FEE since 2003.
Dr Ebeling's articles have appeared in Freedom Daily, The Freeman, Reason, Libertarian Review, Critical Review, Political Studies, Advances in Austrian Economics, The Austrian Economics Newsletter, International Journal of World Peace, American Journal of Economics and Sociology,and numerous other publications. His articles have also been published in Brazil, England, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and Russia.
Among his recent writings are: "A Rational Economist in an Irrational Age: Ludwig von Mises" (The Age of Economists: From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, Hillsdale College Press, 1999); "Wilhelm Ropeke: A Centenary Appreciation" (The Freeman, October 1999); Friedrich A. Hayek: A Centenary Appreciation" (The Freeman, May 1999); "The Free Market and the Interventionist State" (Between Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law, Hillsdale College Press, 1997); "Mission to Moscow: Ludwig von Mises's 'Lost Papers' and Their Signficance," (Liberty magazine, April 1997); "The Global Economy and Classical Liberalism: Past, Present and Future" (The Future of American Business, Hillsdale College Press, 1996); "World Peace, International Order and Classical Liberalism" (International Journal of World Peace,December 1995); "The Political Myths and Economic Realities of the Welfare State" (American Perestroika: The Demise of the Welfare State, Hillsdale College Press, 1995) and "Liberalism and Collectivism in the 20th Century" (The End of 'Isms'? Reflections on the Fate of Ideological Politics after Communism's Collapse, Blackwell, Publishers, 1994).
He has edited and contributed to Money, Method and the Market Process, Essays by Ludwig von Mises (1990); AustrianEconomics: A Reader (1991); Austrian Economics: Retrospects on the Past and Prospects for the Future (1991); The Global Collapse of Socialism (1992); Global Free Trade: Rhetoric and Reality (1993); Can Capitalism Cope? Free Market Reform in the Post-Communist World (1994); Economic Education: What Should We Learn About the Free Market? (1994); and Disaster in Red: The Failure and Collapse of Socialism (1995). He is presently working an intellectual biography of the Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises and A Primer on Austrian Economics.
In 1991, Professor Ebeling made six trips to the former Soviet Union consulting with the government of Lithuania and with members of the Russian Parliament in Moscow on free market reform and privatization of the socialist economy. He was in Vilnius, Lithuania, in January 1991, and witnessed the Soviet military crackdown in which 13 Lithuanians were killed. He was in Moscow in August 1991 during the failed coup-attempt and was at the barricades with the defenders of freedom at the Russian Parliament. He traveled, again, to Lithuania in August 1993 for consultation on market reforms and privatization.
In October 1996, Richard Ebeling was once more in Moscow, Russia, this time uncovering the "lost papers" of the famous Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises. Looted by the Nazis from his Vienna apartment in 1938, Mises' papers were captured by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War. Professor Ebeling and his wife, Anna, were able to obtain photocopies of virtually the entire collection of documents numbering about 10,000 items, which had been kept in a secret archive in Moscow for 50 years. A selection of these photocopies and some originals on loan from the Russian government were placed on exhibition at Hillsdale College during the annual Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series in March 1997. Professor Ebeling is now in the process of supervising the translation of Mises' "lost papers" and editing them for publication. They will appear in three volumes, published by Liberty Fund of Indianapolis, Indiana. Volumes 1 and 2 have not yet been published; volume 3 was published under the title, Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction.
Professor Ebeling also lectures widely on the problems of economic reform and change in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, as well as lecturing on economic policy in the United States, particularly on the topics of monetary policy, government regulation and the welfare state, and the economics of growth, stability and international trade.
Professor David R. Henderson
David R. Henderson is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Henderson's writing focuses on public policy. His specialty is in making economic issues and analyses clear and interesting to general audiences. Two themes emerge from his writing: (1) that the unintended consequences of government regulation and spending are usually worse than the problems they are supposed to solve and (2) that freedom and free markets work to solve people's problems.
David Henderson is the editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (Warner Books, 1993), a book that communicates to a general audience what and how economists think. The Wall Street Journal commented, "His brainchild is a tribute to the power of the short, declarative sentence." The encyclopedia went through three printings and was translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Henderson's latest book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002), has been translated into Russian. Henderson also writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune and, from 1997 to 2000, was a monthly columnist with Red Herring, an information technology magazine. He currently serves as an adviser to LifeSharers, a nonprofit network of organ and tissue donors.
Henderson has been on the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School since 1984 and a research fellow with Hoover since 1990. He was the John M. Olin Visiting Professor with the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis in 1994; a senior economist for energy and health policy with the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984; a visiting professor at the University of Santa Clara from 1980 to 1981; a senior policy analyst with the Cato Institute from 1979 to 1980; and an assistant professor at the University of Rochester's Graduate School of Management from 1975 to 1979.
In 1997, he received the Rear Admiral John Jay Schieffelin Award for excellence in teaching from the Naval Postgraduate School. In 1984, he won the Mencken Award for best investigative journalism article for his Fortune article "The Myth of MITI."
Henderson has written for the New York Times, Barron's, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Public Interest, the Christian Science Monitor, National Review, the New York Daily News, the Dallas Morning News, and Reason. He has also written scholarly articles for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cato Journal, Regulation, Contemporary Policy Issues, and Energy Journal.
Henderson has spoken before a wide variety of audiences, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the St. Louis Discussion Club, the Commonwealth Club of California (National Defense and Business Economics Section), the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation. He has also spoken to economists and general audiences at many universities around the country, including Carnegie-Mellon, Brown, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis, the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School, and the Hoover Institution. He has given papers at annual conferences held by the American Economics Association, the Western Economics Association, and the Association of Public Policy and Management. He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. He has also appeared on the O'Reilly Factor (Fox News), C-SPAN, CNN, the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and regional talk shows.
Born and raised in Canada, Henderson earned his bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the University of Winnipeg in 1970 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976.
Professor Alan Charles Kors
lan Charles Kors is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a BA in history from Princeton University and an MA and PhD in European history from Harvard University.
Kors is editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press) and is on the board of editors of Eighteenth-Century Life. He has actively advocated academic freedom and was recently awarded the Englaticheff Award in Defense of Academic Freedom. His co-authored book (with Harvey A. Silverglate) The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses was published by the Free Press in 1998.
Professor Kors is the author of D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris (1976) and Atheism in France, 1650-1729, vol. 1 (1990), and co-editor of Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History (1972, 1995) and Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany (1987). He has written numerous articles and book reviews and has been featured on video and audiotapes, including The Teaching Company's "Superstar Teachers Series."
He is chairman of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a non-profit organization devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom on American campuses.
Dr Razeen Sally
Dr Razeen Sally is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught since 1993, and head of its International Trade Policy Unit. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, and at Tallinn Technical University in Estonia; and was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. From 1992-3, he was a Research Fellow at the European Institute of Business Administration [INSEAD] in Fontainebleau, France, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the USA in 1998. Dr Sally received his PhD from the LSE in 1992, having previously studied at the University of Frankfurt, the Free University of Berlin and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
He is also Director of Trade Policy at the Commonwealth Business Council in London and of the Commonwealth Business Council/Global Dimensions trade policy programme.
His research has focused on trade policy-making in developing and transitional countries, notably in Eastern Europe and East Asia, and on developing country participation in the WTO. He also writes on the intellectual history of political economy, especially the theory of commercial policy in the classical liberal tradition. Dr Sally has published Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order: Studies in Theory and Intellectual History [London: Routledge, 1998], and many articles and chapters in books on trade policy.
Professor Emily Chamlee-Wright
Emily Chamlee-Wright is associate professor of economics and management at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Her book The Cultural Foundation of Economic Development (Routledge) explores the strategies for capital accumulation and mutual assistance among market women in Ghana. She is also co-author of Culture and the Spirit of Enterprise with Don Lavoie, which explores the links between economics and cultural studies.
Her current research is on micro-finance and indigenous capital accumulation strategies in Harare, Zimbabwe. Prof. Chamlee-Wright received the Underkoffler Award for Excellence in Teaching (Beloit College's "Teacher of the Year Award") in 1997. Professor Chamlee-Wright was a W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow from 1995-1998, and currently directs the Beloit College Leadership Institute, which identifies and trains student leaders interested in business and community development.
Professor Chamlee-Wright received her PhD from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She teaches courses on African markets and institutions, comparative economic systems, Austrian economics, and the history of economic thought. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.
Dr Mark Pennington
Dr Mark Pennington is a senior Lecturer in Political Economy at Queen Mary College, University of London. His main research interests lie in the political economy of the regulatory state, with a particular emphasis on environmental policy and public sector reform.
Much of his past work has been concerned with the potential role of market processes in improving environmental quality. To this end, he has completed two books examining the politics of land use regulation in the UK and the potential for market solutions.
He also has broader interests in political economy, with a particular interest in public choice theory and the 'Austrian' school of economics. At present he is looking at the implications of 'spontaneous order theories' and Hayek's economics for theories of deliberative democracy and the 'politics of difference'. A synthesis of his recent work is reflected in his current book project: Towards the Minimal State: Markets and the Future of Public Policy.
He has published in journals such as Political Studies, Review of Austrain Economics, New Political Economy and Policy and Politics. He is author of Liberating the Land: The Case for Private Land Use Planning (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002).
Professor Alex Tabarrok
Dr Alex Tabarrok is an associate professor of economics in the department of economics at George Mason University. He is also research director for The Independent Institute and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center.
His research interests include empirical law and economics (tort reform, bounty hunters, judicial electoral systems etc.), voting theory and alternative political institutions, health economics (especially the FDA). His books, among others, include Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime and Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science.
Dr Tabarrok is the recipient of the Snavely Award, and he has been an Earhart Foundation Fellow and George A. and Frances Ball Foundation Fellow.
Professor Milowit Kuninski
Milowit Kuninski is a professor of philosphy at Jagiellonian University, Poland, and at the Nowy Sacz School of Business - a Polish branch of the National-Louis University in Chicago. He is also Vice-President of the Centre for Political Thought in Poland.
Professor Kuninski was born in 1946 in Lingen am Ems, Germany: his parents had had just finished their involuntarily holidays in German camps during World War II. He was educated in Krakow where he studied philosophy, Polish literature and sociology. For some time had regarded himself a Marxist, but he then became interested in Max Weber's methodology of social sciences (ideal types). In the 1970s studied classical liberalism and became fascinated with the work of Friedrich August von Hayek. Published a book on Hayek in 1999 - Knowledge, Ethics and Politics in F. A. von Hayek's Thought (in Polish) - and articles on different aspects of his thought from epistemology to political theory (among others a comparison of Hayek's and Rawl's ideas of private property, taxation and the role of elites).
He has recently published (together with son Tomasz) the first Polish translation of Hayek's The Fatal Conceit. His interest in political theory expanded onto history of political philosophy: Plato and Aristotle. In an article on the idea of a democratic man in Plato he put forward an interpretation of Plato's theory of the tripartite soul in terms of a contrast between substantive rationality and propensity to maximization of marginal utility.
He lectures on history of political theory. His other interests are epistemology and metaphysics. He lectures on Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. He is now working on a book on Berkeley's thought (from his epistemology and metaphysics to his ethics and theology).
Professor Richard L. Stroup
Dr Richard L. Stroup is a professor of economics at Montana State University.
In the late 1970s, Dr Stroup was one of the originators of the New Resource Economics, the academic approach that as popularly known as free market environmentalism.
He is a widely published author and speaker on economics, including natural resources and environmental issues. He is the author of a recent primer on economics, Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment. Stroup also is recognized for introducing the public choice school of economics in a leading economics principles textbook, which he co-authored with James D. Gwartney. Economics: Private and Public Choice is now in its tenth edition, which now includes Russell Sobel and David McPherson as co-authors also.
A native of Washington state, Stroup received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 1970. He is a senior associate of PERC. During the Reagan administration, Stroup served as the director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Department of Interior.
Professor James Tooley
Dr James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Newcastle and Director of the university's E G West Centre. Professor Tooley directed the global study of investment opportunities for private education in developing countries for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) - the private finance arm of the World Bank - which led to his publication The Global Education Industry (IEA, 1999), now in its second edition. This study explored the private education market and the regulatory and investment climate in a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, together with detailed case studies of 20 private education companies or institutions.
Professor Tooley is currently directing an international research programme examining the role of private schools serving low income families in Asia and Africa and funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Research is currently on going in India, China, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. Professor Tooley has also done considerable consultancy work for the IFC, World Bank (IBRD), UN, UNESCO, and Asian Development Bank Institute on private education in developing countries. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences on the global education industry.
Dr Terence Kealey
Dr Terence Kealey has been Vice-Chancellor at the University since April 2001. He is a well-known academic specialising in Clinical Biochemistry.
Dr Kealey received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1982 and worked as the Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford. He then moved to Cambridge University to become a lecturer in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry. He left in 2001 after 13 years to come to Buckingham.
Dr Kealey is known for his book The Economic Laws of Scientific Research and for his journalism and scholarship where he has shown that governments need not fund science or higher education. His argument is that the independent sector can provide wider access and deeper scholarship than the state. Dr Kealey wrote a regular column in the Daily Telegraph until very recently which was thought provoking and often controversial.
Sir Samuel Brittan
Sir Samuel is one of Britain's leading economic journalists.
He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; an Honorary Doctor of Letters (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh); an Honorary Doctor of the University of Essex. He has been visiting Professor at the Chicago Law School, a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and an Honorary Professor of Politics at Warwick.
He has been awarded the George Orwell, Senior Harold Wincott and Ludwig Erhard prizes. He was a member of the Peacock Committee on the Finance of the BBC (1985-86).
He was knighted in 1993 for "services to economic journalism" and also became that year a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.