FEE Faculty
Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He has also worked as special assistant to President Reagan and has been the editor of the political magazine Inquiry. Major newspapers and magazines across the country publish Bandow’s articles. He writes regularly for leading publications such as [...] More
Scott Beaulier
Dr. Beaulier is the Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise and Associate Professor of Economics at Troy University. He is also the Executive Director of Troy University’s Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy. Before coming to Troy University, Dr. Beaulier was Department Chair of Economics at Mercer University. He received his Ph.D. in economics at [...] More
Brad Birzer
Brad Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History and Director of the American Studies Program at Hillsdale College. He completed his undergraduate work at Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. at Indiana University-Bloomington. He has authored many books, including The American Democrat and Other Political Writings, The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, [...] More
Peter Boettke
Peter J. Boettke is the Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, and a professor in the economics department at George Mason University. Boettke was born and raised in New Jersey. He received his BA in economics from Grove City College and his [...] More
Don Boudreaux
Don Boudreaux is Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University. From 1997-2001, he was president of the Foundation for Economic Education. He has lectured all over the world on many different topics, including international trade and the nature of law. He has been published in many newspapers and journals, including The Wall [...] More
Brian Brenberg
Brian Brenberg teaches classes in economics, business communication, and organizational change at The King’s College. Prior to joining King’s faculty, he served as grants manager at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. He also held positions in the medical device and financial services industries, as well as public policy research. Prof. Brenberg earned an MBA [...] More
Brennan Brown
Mr. Brennan J. Brown is Professor of Economics at Northwood University. His teaches Free Enterprise, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Trade, Austrian Economics, Economic History and Monetary Policy. Previously, Mr. Brown was the Economic and Education Policy Advisor to Michigan State Senator Nancy Cassis and also worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Prof. Brown earned [...] More
Christopher Coyne
Christopher Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics. In 2008, he was named the Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics, and in 2010 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Social [...] More
Paul Cwik
Paul Cwik is an associate professor of Economics at Mount Olive College. He has earned a B.A. from Hillsdale College, Michigan, an M.A. from Tulane University in Louisiana, and a Ph.D. from Auburn University in Alabama. He has taught classes at several colleges and universities such as Auburn University, Campbell University and Walsh College. He [...] More
John Durant
John Durant is a health entrepreneur, and a leading proponent of the paleo diet, barefoot running, and evolutionary approaches to health and fitness. He has been featured in the New York Times, interviewed on the Colbert Report, and has appeared in media around the world including in Germany, Japan, Brazil, France, Sweden, Canada, and more. [...] More
Gerald Dwyer
Gerald P. Dwyer is Director of the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he leads the Bank’s efforts on those issues. Prior to this position, he was a Vice President in charge of the Finance group in the Research Department. Currently an adjunct professor at the University [...] More
Bob Ewing
Bob Ewing is Director of Communications at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Va. In this capacity Bob has secured news coverage in outlets nationwide, including Air America, All Things Considered, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune Small Business, Hannity & Colmes, Marketplace, Marginal Revolution, MSNBC, National Public Radio, National Law Journal, [...] More
Burt Folsom
Burt Folsom did his Ph.D. work at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a professor of History at Hillsdale College, a senior fellow in economic education for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and is FEE’s senior historian. He has published many articles for the Mackinac Center and has published many books, including The Myth [...] More
Roger Garrison
Roger Garrison is a professor of Economics at Auburn University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia, and his areas of interest and research include Austrian Economic Theory and Macroeconomics. He is the author of Time and Money, and has lectured all over the world, including at the London School of [...] More
James Harrigan
Dr. James Harrigan joined IHS in September 2011 as the Director of Academic Programs. He was most recently the Academic Dean of Students at The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani (AUI-S). Before joining AUI-S, Dr. Harrigan was a professor of political science. Dr. Harrigan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of [...] More
Steven Horwitz
Steven Horwitz is Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in New York. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (Westview, 1992), and he has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and [...] More
Sanford Ikeda
Sanford Ikeda is an associate professor of economics at Purchase College, The State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from New York University, where he is currently a visiting scholar and research associate. His research interests include the dynamics of interventionism, public policy, the political economy of cities, antitrust, and Japanese drumming. He [...] More
Israel Kirzner
Israel Kirzner is Emeritus Professor of Economics at New York University. He is widely published (some of his books include: The Economic Point of View, Market Theory and the Price System, An Essay on Capital, Competition and Entrepreneurship, Perception, Opportunity and Profit Studies in the Theory of Entrepreneurship, Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice). Also, he has published many articles [...] More
Claire Kittle
Claire Kittle is the executive director of Talent Market. Claire has a decade of experience in the talent development field. She operated her own headhunting firm for more than three years before transitioning into a career in the free-market nonprofit movement. She joined the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation where she served as the Program [...] More
Peter Leeson
Pete Leeson is a professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is a Distinguished Scholar for the Center for the Study of Political Economy at Hampden-Sydney College, resides on the executive committee for the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics and the board of scholars for the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. He [...] More
Robert McDonald
Robert M. S. McDonald is associate professor of history at the United States Military Academy. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, Oxford University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned his Ph.D. A specialist on Thomas Jefferson and the early American republic, he has published several essays [...] More
Matthew Mitchell
Matthew Mitchell is a research fellow with the State and Local Policy Project at the Mercatus Center. His research focuses on spending and budget issues, particularly the ways in which government policy is developed and how it impacts various measure of well-being. Mitchell received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and a B.A. [...] More
John Papola
Emergent Order co-founder and creative director John Papola is an award-winning director and producer who has been working in short and long-form broadcast TV production for the past decade. His former employers and clients include major networks and brands like Spike TV, Nickelodeon, and MTV as well as creative ad agencies such as Crispin Porter, [...] More
Ivan Pongracic
Dr. Ivan Pongracic Jr. is an associate professor of economics at Hillsdale College, where he holds the William E. Hibbs/Ludwig von Mises Chair in Economics and where he has been teaching since 2000. He earned his PhD in 2004 from George Mason University. He also holds a BS degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University. [...] More
Lawrence W. Reed
High Resolution Photograph On September 1, 2008, Lawrence W. (Larry) Reed assumed the presidency of the Foundation for Economic Education, headquartered in Irvington, New York. In this article, FEE: A Lighthouse for Freedom, FEE’s history and importance were highlighted by Reed. After serving as President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for its first two [...] More
Mario Rizzo
Mario Rizzo received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is an associate professor of Economics at New York University. His areas of interest include Austrian Economics, Law and Economics, Microeconomics, Ethics and Economics, and the Philosophy of Science. He has authored Economics of Time and Ignorance: 1996 Intro Survey and Time, Uncertainty and Disequilibrium: Exploration [...] More
Bruce Rottman
Bruce Rottman received his MA from San Francisco State University and BA from Calvin College, and has taught economics and history in Florida, California, Washington, and Wisconsin. He was both a Lambe Fellow and a Salvatori Fellow, won first place in Wisconsin’s Excellence in Teaching Economics in 1997, and was one of five national winners [...] More
Frederic Sautet
Dr. Frederic Sautet is an economist affiliated with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has a wide professional experience that includes strategic management in Europe, public policy in New Zealand, and teaching economics at NYU and GMU. He has published in the fields of entrepreneurship theory, cluster policy, competition law, and the theory [...] More
Harry Veryser
Harry Veryser is an Instructor of Economics and teaches Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, History of Economic Thought, Free Enterprise and Radical Criticism, and International Economics. Veryser comes to the University from Walsh College, where he worked as a professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance. He also was the [...] More
Kurt Weber
Kurt T. Weber is a senior advisor with State Policy Network as a Contractor with Total Consulting Strategies. Among his responsibilities, Weber advises start-up institutes, oversees the SPN bi-monthly newsletter, manages the Generation Liberty Fellow program and co-manages the SPN/IHS Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow program. Mr. Weber has been a life-long activist for liberty. [...] More
Nikolai Wenzel
Nikolai G. Wenzel is Assistant Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Michigan), where he holds the Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free-Market Economics. His research focuses primarily on constitutional political economy (comparative and theoretical), philosophy and economics, the work of F.A. Hayek, and wine economics. He is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, the Society for [...] More
Lawrence White
Lawrence White is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He previously taught at New York University, the University of Georgia, and the University of Missouri – St. Louis. He received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard University, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His major areas [...] More
Thomas Woods
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, [...] More
Melissa Yeoh
Melissa Yeoh is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Campbell School of Business at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. She has taught Principles of Economics, Econometrics, Public Economics, and Environmental Economics. Dr. Yeoh’s has published on the political economy of congressional franking by U.S. legislators, the effect of Massachusetts’ health care reform on bankruptcy [...] More
