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
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
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
Bill Butos
Bill Butos is a professor of economics at Trinity College. His research interests include monetary theory and policy, business cycles, the economics of science, and Austrian economics. He is a Faculty Fellow at the New York University Austrian Economics Program. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Private Enterprise. More
Anthony Carilli
Anthony M. Carilli is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Study of Political Economy at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northeastern University. He serves on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is on the Board of Scholars for the Virginia Institute [...] 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
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
Mark Hendrickson
Among other forms of employment, Mark Hendrickson has worked as a busboy, janitor, high school teacher, counselor at a high school for inner-city dropouts, aide to quadriplegic, editor, business manager, and college professor. He studied law at the University of Michigan, literature at Oxford, moral education at Harvard, and economics under the tutelage of the noted Austrian economist and former [...] 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
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
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
Edward J. López
Edward J. López is Associate Professor of Law & Economics at San Jose State University in California, and a former president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He is also co-Editor of the Journal of Economics and Finance Education and the Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy. His book, The Pursuit of Justice: Law [...] More
Robert McNamara
Robert McNamara serves as a staff attorney with the Institute for Justice. His opinions and views on constitutional issues have appeared nationwide in outlets including including Air America, All Things Considered, Hannity and Colmes, Fox News Channel, Marketplace, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal and others. In 2006, Robert received his law degree from the [...] 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
Isaac Morehouse
Isaac Morehouse works at the Institute for Humane Studies where he helps raise support for the Institute’s programs. Morehouse previously directed educational programs and policy programs and mentored students at IHS. Prior to IHS, Isaac worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy where he created and directed Students for a Free Economy. Morehouse also [...] 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
Benjamin Powell
Benjamin Powell is an assistant professor of Economics at Suffolk University, a senior economist at The Beacon Hill Institute, and a research fellow with the Independent Institute. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. He is the editor of Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development, co-editor [...] More
Jeff Proctor
Jeff Proctor is a member of the Market-Based Management® team at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation where he teaches economic thinking and management skills to participants in the Koch Foundation’s talent programs. Jeff attended Harding University (Searcy, AR), where he earned bachelors degrees in Psychology and Interactive Media. Currently he is pursuing his graduate [...] 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
Gregory Rehmke
Gregory Rehmke directs programs for Economic Thinking/E Pluribus Unum Films, and is a program consultant for the Foundation for Economic Education. He has been a speaker at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston World Affairs Council seminars for teachers and Institute for Economic Studies-Europe seminars for college students. He is co-author of The Complete [...] 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
Frank Stephenson
Frank Stephenson is a professor and chair of the economics department at Berry College in Rome, GA. A native of North Carolina, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University and a doctorate from North Carolina State University. He enjoys teaching both principles-level economics courses and upper-level courses in law and economics, public [...] 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
