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Senior Fellows

• Bruce L. Benson
  DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, Florida State University
• Ivan Eland
  Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Peace & Liberty
• Robert Higgs
  Senior Fellow in Political Economy. Editor, The Independent Review.
• Charles Peña
  Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
• William F. Shughart II
  Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi
• Alvaro Vargas Llosa
  Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global Prosperity
• Richard K. Vedder
  Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University

Research Fellows

• Gary M. Anderson
  Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• Karen LaFollette Araujo
  President, Hemispheric Studies Institute
• Dominick T. Armentano
  Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Hartford
• Robert C. Arne
  Co-Director, The School of Choice
• George B. N. Ayittey
  Distinguished Economist in Residence in the Department of Economics at American University.
• Stephen Baskerville
  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).
• Scott A. Beaulier
  Assistant Professor of Economics in Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business and Economics
• Wilfred Beckerman
  Professor of Economics, Oxford University, England
• Boris Begovic
  Professor of Economics at the School of Law at the University of Belgrade
• David T. Beito
  Professor of History, University of Alabama
• Daniel K. Benjamin
  Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• Kiran Bhatt
  Economist, K.T. Analytics, Inc.
• Erwin A. Blackstone
  Professor of Economics at Temple University
• Peter J. Boettke
  Professor of Economics at George Mason University
• Boudewijn R. A. Bouckaert
  Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
• Donald J. Boudreaux
  Chairman and Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University
• Samuel Jan Brakel
  Vice President, Management, Legal Affairs and Project Development, Isaac Ray Center, Inc.
• Timothy J. Brennan
  Professor of Policy Sciences, University of Maryland
• Jo-Christy Brown
  Partner, Brown, Carls & Mitchell, L.L.P.
• Richard C. K. Burdekin
  Professor of Economics, Claremont-McKenna College
• Noel D. Campbell
  Professor of Economics, North Georgia College & State University
• Thomas F. Cargill
  Professor of Economics, University of Nevada
• Allan C. Carlson
  President, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
• Christopher J. Check
  Executive Vice President, Rockford Institute
• Carl P. Close
  Research Fellow and Academic Affairs Director, The Independent Institute
• Lloyd R. Cohen
  Professor of Law, George Mason University
• Timothy J. Considine
  Director, Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, Pennsylvania State University
• Tyler Cowen
  General Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University
• Christopher J. Coyne
  Assistant Professor of Economics at West Virginia University.
• Terry Daniel
  Professor of Business, University of Alberta
• Patricia M. Danzon
  Professor of Health Care Systems, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Stephen J. Davies
  Professor of English and History, Manchester Polytechnic, England
• Alan Day
  Professor, London School of Economics
• Robert T. Deacon
  Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Donald N. DeWees
  Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo
  Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
• David E. Dismukes
  Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
• Justus D. Doenecke
  Professor of History, New College, University of South Florida
• George W. Douglas
  Economic Counsel, George W. Douglas and Company
• Kevin Dowd
  Professor of Financial Risk Management, University of Nottingham, England
• Donald A. Downs
  Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism, University of Wisconsin
• Stephen P. Dresch
  Former Dean, Michigan Technological University's School of Business and Engineering Administration
• Robert B. Ekelund
  Edward and Catherine Lowder Emminent Scholar of Economics, Auburn University
• Richard A. Epstein
  James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
• Hugo J. Faria
  Professor of Economics and Finance at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Caracas, Venezuela
• Roger D. Feldman
  Professor, Center for Health Services Research, University of Minnesota
• Antony G. N. Flew
  Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, England
• Fred E. Foldvary
  Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
• Kenneth R. Foster
  Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
• Arthur E. Foulkes
  Professor of Government, Northwood University
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  Eleanore Raoul Professor of Humanities, Emory University
• David T. Fractor
  Manager, Forensic Economics, Findlay Phillips & Associates
• H. E. Frech
  Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Lowell E. Gallaway
  Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University
• Paula A. Gant
  Fellow in Economics, Auburn University
• Bruce L. Gardner
  Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
• Adam Gifford
  Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• David Glasner
  Staff Economist, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
• Peter Gordon
  Professor of Planning and Economics, University of Southern California
• Brian C. Gothberg
  Instructor in American history and the history of Western civilization at the Academy of Art University
• William M. Gray
  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
• David G. Green
  Director, Health and Welfare Unit, Institute of Economic Affairs, England
• Thomas Grennes
  Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
• David D. Haddock
  Professor of Law, Northwestern University
• Simon Hakim
  Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University
• Stephen P. Halbrook
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Joshua C. Hall
  Dan Searle Fellow in Economics at West Virginia University
• Ronald Hamowy
  Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
• Steve H. Hanke
  Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Ronald W. Hansen
  Professor of Management, University of Rochester
• Clark C. Havighurst
  William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University
• Ian G. Heggie
  Roads Advisor, World Bank; Lecturer, University of Birmingham
• Eric A. Helland
  Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
• Peter J. Hill
  George F. Bennett Professor of Economics, Wheaton College
• Jack Hirshleifer
  Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
• William W. Hogan
  Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
• Randall G. Holcombe
  DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University
• Peter W. Huber
  Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
• Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
  Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
• David Isenberg
  Research Fellow at the Independent Institute
• Gail A. Jensen
  Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
• Don B. Kates, Jr.
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Charles E. Kay
  Professor of Political Science, Utah State University
• Robert E. Keleher
  Chief Macroeconomist, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
• Michael K. Kellogg
  Senior Partner, Kellogg, Huber & Hansen
• C. Ronald Kimberling
  Senior Vice President and Provost, Phillips College, Inc.
• Daniel B. Klein
  Professor of Economics at George Mason University; co-author of FDAReview.org
• Andrew N. Kleit
  Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Pennsylvania State University
• Bruce H. Kobayashi
  Professor of Law, George Mason University
• William E. Kovacic
  Professor of Law, George Mason University
• Timur Kuran
  Professor of Economics and Political Science and Gorter Family Chair in Islamic Studies at Duke University
• Deepak Lal
  James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
• James A. Langenfeld
  Former Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
• Robert A. Lawson
  Professor of Economics and holder of the George H. Moor Chair in the School of Management at Capitol University
• Christopher Layne
  Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Miami
• Dwight R. Lee
  Ramsey Chair, Department of Economics, Terry School of Business, University of Georgia
• Peter T. Leeson
  BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University
• David R. Legates
  Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Research, University of Delaware
• Pierre Lemieux
  Visiting Professor of Economics, Universitè du Quèbec en Outaouais, Canada
• David M. Levinson
  Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
• 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
• Cotton M. Lindsay
  Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• James M. Lindsay
  Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
• Edward J. Lopez
  Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
• 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
• Spencer Heath MacCallum
  Director, Heather Foundation
• Jonathan R. Macey
  J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University
• Tibor R. Machan
  Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University
• John D. Majewski
  Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Stephen E. Margolis
  Head, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
• William Marina
  Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University
• J. Victor Marshall
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Joseph P. Martino
  Senior Research Scientist, University of Dayton
• Kenneth R. Mayer
  Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
• Fred S. McChesney
  Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern University
• Paul W. McCracken
  Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy, University of Michigan; former Chairman, President's Council of Economics Advisors
• Wendy McElroy
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• William C. McLeod
  Member, Collier, Shannon, & Scott, PLLC
• Tom Means
  Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education at San Jose State University
• Roger E. Meiners
  Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Arlington
• John D. Merrifield
  Professor of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio
• Robert J. Michaels
  Professor of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
• Jeffrey A. Miron
  Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Herbert Mohring
  Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
• Mike Moore
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Michael A. Morrisey
  Director, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama
• Andrew P. Morriss
  Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
• Robert H. Nelson
  Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
• George W. Nicholson
  Associate Justice for the Court of Appeal, Third District, State of California
• Randal O'Toole
  Senior Fellow, Thoreau Institute
• Edward A. Olsen
  Professor of National Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School
• 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
• Ilan Peleg
  Dean Professor of Social Sciences, Lafayette College
• Lewis Perry
  John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair of History, St. Louis University
• Craig S. Pirrong
  Professor of Economics, University of Houston
• Andre Plourde
  Professor of Business, University of Alberta
• Daniel D. Polsby
  Associate Dean, School of Law, George Mason University
• Robert W. Poole Jr.
  Founder, Reason Foundation
• Benjamin Powell
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute; Assistant Professor of Economics, Suffolk University
• Lawrence S. Powell
  Whitbeck-Beyer Chair of Insurance and Financial Services and Assistant Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• Randall J. Pozdena
  Managing Director, ECONorthwest
• Adam C. Pritchard
  Professor of Law, University of Michigan
• David W. Rasmussen
  Director, Policy Sciences Center, Florida State University
• William Ratliff
  Research Fellow and Curator of the Americas Collection at the Hoover Institution
• Michael Reksulak
  Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia Southern University
• Nicholas Rescher
  University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
• Harry W. Richardson
  Professor of Policy, Planning & Development, University of Southern California
• Sheldon L. Richman
  Editor, The Freeman
• Paul Craig Roberts
  Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Kenneth J. Robinson
  Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Neil Roden
  Manager, Private Finance Team, Highways Agency, United Kingdom Department of Transport
• Robert A. Rogowsky
  Director of Operations, U.S. International Trade Commission
• Gabriel Roth
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Simon Rottenberg
  Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
• Paul H. Rubin
  Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University
• Randal R. Rucker
  Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
• Barbara A. Ryan
  Vice President of Industry Analysis, Capital Economics
• David O. Sacks
  Former Vice President, Product Strategy, PayPal, Inc.
• Peter Samuel
  Editor and Publisher, Toll Roads Newsletter
• Kurt A. Schuler
  Economics Consultant
• Jordan A. Schwarz
  Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
• Larry J. Sechrest
  Professor of Economics, Sul Ross State University
• Frederick Seitz
  Former President, Rockefeller University; former President, National Academy of Science
• George Selgin
  Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia and BB&T Professor of Free Market Thought at West Virginia University
• John Semmens
  Senior Planner, Arizona Department of Transportation
• Eugenia D. Short
  Former Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Randy T. Simmons
  Director, Institute of Political Economy, Utah State University
• S. Fred Singer
  Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
• Vernon L. Smith
  Member of the Board of Advisors, The Independent Institute; Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Professor of Law and Director of the Economic Science Institute, Chapman University
• Russell S. Sobel
  Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
• John W. Sommer
  Knight Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina
• Joel H. Spring
  Professor of Education, State University of New York, New Paltz
• Robert B. Stinnett
  Author, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
• Edward P. Stringham
  Associate Professor of Economics at San Jose State University
• Joseph R. Stromberg
  Independent Historian
• Richard L. Stroup
  Professor of Economics, Montana State University
• Edward C. Sullivan
  Professor of Civil Engineering, California State Polytechnic University
• Paul Sullivan
  Professor of Economics, National Defense University
• Shirley V. Svorny
  Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• Alexander Tabarrok
  Research Director, The Independent Institute
• Peter A. Thiel
  Founder, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PayPal, Inc.
• Mark Thornton
  Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Richard H. Timberlake
  Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Georgia
• James Tooley
  Professor of Education Policy, University New Castle, England
• Gordon Tullock
  University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
• Charlotte Twight
  Adjunct Fellow; Professor of Economics, Boise State University
• Frank van Dun
  Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Olegario G. Villoria Jr.
  President, OGV Consulting, Inc.
• Richard E. Wagner
  Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Thomas F. Walton
  Former Economist, Federal Trade Commission
• Michael Ward
  Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, former Chaplain of Peterhouse at Cambridge University
• Alan Rufus Waters
  Professor of Finance and Business Law, California State University, Fresno
• William J. Watkins Jr.
  Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Jilleen R. Westbrook
  Professor of Economics, Temple University
• Robert M. Whaples
  Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University
• Winslow T. Wheeler
  Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information
• Lawrence H. White
  Friedrich A. Hayek Professor of Economic History, University of Missouri, St. Louis
• Douglas Glen Whitman
  Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• Thomas D. Willett
  Horton Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University
• Bruce Yandle
  Alumni Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• Leland B. Yeager
  Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Auburn University
• Brenda Yelvington
  Fellow in Accounting, University of Mississippi
• José Maria J. Yulo
  Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Lecturer in Philosophy and Western Civilization at the Academy of Art University

• David L. Kaserman
  late Torchmark Professor of Economics, Auburn University
• William C. Mitchell
  Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
• Murray N. Rothbard
  late S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• John T. Wenders
  late Professor of Economics, University of Idaho