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Academic Disciplines

Randy Barnett Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. [MORE]

Christopher Coyne Christopher Coyne is currently in his third year in the Economics Ph.D. program at George Mason University. He is also a member of the Social Change Project at the Mercatus Center and the Murray N. Rothbard Fellow for the Review of Austrian Economics. [MORE]

John Moser John E. Moser is assistant professor of history at Ashland University, where he teaches courses in both European and U.S. history. [MORE]

Robert Nozick Robert Nozick almost single-handedly made libertarian political philosophy respectable within mainstream academia with the 1974 publication of his now classic Anarchy, State and Utopia, which garnered a National Book Award the following year. [MORE]

David Schmidtz David Schmidtz is Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. [MORE]


Economics

Howard Baetjer Howard Baetjer Jr. is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he teaches courses in microeconomics, comparative economic systems, and money and banking. [MORE]

Frederic Bastiat Claude Frederic Bastiat was a liberal French political economist who taught that there is a natural social harmony that emerges from the unhindered exchanges of free people, and that interference with this order prevents the existence of new value and harms society in ways that are quite real, although "unseen." [MORE]

Peter Boettke Peter J. Boettke is a professor of economics at George Mason University, the Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, and the Research Director of the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center. [MORE]

James Buchanan James M. Buchanan, Advisory General Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy and Harris University Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is best known as a founding father of "public choice economics." [MORE]

Emily Chamlee-Wright Emily Chamlee-Wright is associate professor of economics and management at Beloit College in Wisconsin. [MORE]


History

Michael Allen [MORE]

Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn taught at Harvard University. His Ideological Origins of the American Revolution received Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes (1968); Voyagers to the West received the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. [MORE]

David Beito David T. Beito is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama. [MORE]

Bradley Birzer Bradley Birzer is Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College in Michigan. [MORE]

Stephen Davies Since 1979, Steven Davies has taught at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he now holds the post of senior lecturer. His academic and research interests include the history of crime and criminal justice, history of ideas and political thought, comparative economic history, and the history of the private supply of public goods. [MORE]


Law

Randy Barnett Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. [MORE]

Jerry Brito Jerry Brito is a legal fellow with the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. [MORE]

Richard Epstein Richard Epstein is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago’s Law School, and last year served as Interim Dean of the Law School. [MORE]

David Friedman David D. Friedman, son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, is a professor of law at Santa Clara University. He is known most for his work in political theory and economics. [MORE]

James Gray James P. Gray is Judge of the Superior Court in Orange County, California, and is the author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It - A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs (Temple University Press, 2001). [MORE]


Philosophy

Gerard Alexander Gerard Alexander is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. [MORE]

Andrew Cohen Andrew I. Cohen is the Acting Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University. His research interests are broadly focused in ethics and political philosophy. [MORE]

Edward Feser Edward Feser is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in California. [MORE]

David Friedman David D. Friedman, son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, is a professor of law at Santa Clara University. He is known most for his work in political theory and economics. [MORE]

David Hume A leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume is modern philosophy's most thorough-going naturalist, arguing that the mind itself knows nothing without experience. [MORE]


Political Science

Norman Barry Norman Barry is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Buckingham, UK. [MORE]

Frederic Bastiat Claude Frederic Bastiat was a liberal French political economist who taught that there is a natural social harmony that emerges from the unhindered exchanges of free people, and that interference with this order prevents the existence of new value and harms society in ways that are quite real, although "unseen." [MORE]

Adam Chacksfield Adam Chacksfield is an Assistant Professor from the University of Texas at Austin. [MORE]

Stephen Davies Since 1979, Steven Davies has taught at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he now holds the post of senior lecturer. His academic and research interests include the history of crime and criminal justice, history of ideas and political thought, comparative economic history, and the history of the private supply of public goods. [MORE]

Daniel Drezner Daniel W. Drezner is assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and for 2004-6 a non-resident Transatlantic Fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States. [MORE]


Public Policy

Howard Baetjer Howard Baetjer Jr. is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he teaches courses in microeconomics, comparative economic systems, and money and banking. [MORE]

Adam Chacksfield Adam Chacksfield is an Assistant Professor from the University of Texas at Austin. [MORE]

Michael Munger Michael Munger is currently the Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He holds concurrent appointments at the Department of Economics and Public Policy School at Duke, and the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. [MORE]

Tom Palmer Tom G. Palmer is Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and director of Cato University. [MORE]

Randy Simmons Randy Simmons is the Director of the Institute for Political Economy and Professor of Political Science at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. [MORE]


Sociology

Norman Barry Norman Barry is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Buckingham, UK. [MORE]


Careers in Ideas

Randy Barnett Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. [MORE]

John Coleman John Coleman is a writer and strategy consultant in Atlanta, GA. [MORE]

Tyler Cowen Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and chairman of the Mercatus Center. [MORE]

J. Bishop Grewell J. Bishop Grewell is co-author of "Ecological Agrarian: Agriculture's First Evolution in 10,000 Years" from Purdue University Press and a research associate with PERC, The Property and Environment Research Center, in Bozeman, Montana. [MORE]

Jacob Grier Jacob Grier is a freelance writer and close-up magician based in Arlington, VA. [MORE]


Academia

Randy Barnett Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. [MORE]

Tyler Cowen Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and chairman of the Mercatus Center. [MORE]

John Hasnas John Hasnas is an associate professor of business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he teaches courses in ethics and law. [MORE]

David Henderson David R. Henderson is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution as well as an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. [MORE]

Alan Charles Kors Alan Charles Kors is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. in history from Princeton University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in European history from Harvard University. [MORE]


Art, Film, & Fiction

Ayn Rand Ayn Rand is the author of the classic American novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and the originator of a comprehensive philosophical system called "Objectivism" that emphasizes the primacy of human reason, the moral importance of individualism and the necessity of political freedom. [MORE]


Journalism/Communication

Jennifer Edwards Jennifer Edwards is an Odessa, TX-based journalist acting as the features editor of the Odessa American newspaper. [MORE]

Peter McWilliams A best selling author who wrote on a variety of subjects, Peter McWilliams was an outspoken advocate for liberty. McWilliams authored many books, including Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country, a brilliant analysis of consensual acts that are labeled as "crimes." [MORE]

Todd Seavey [MORE]

John Stossel [MORE]


Public Policy

David Boaz Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, David Boaz is a provocative commentator on a broad range of political and cultural issues; he has played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement. [MORE]

Tom Palmer Tom G. Palmer is Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and director of Cato University. [MORE]


Austrian Economics

Murray Rothbard An academic and author who played a important role in the revival of the Austrian School of Economics and in the rebirth of libertarian and classical liberal ideas during the twentieth century, Murray Rothbard will be forever known as perhaps the most vocal American-born anti-statist of the post World War II-era. [MORE]

Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Edler von Mises, the eminence of the "Austrian School" of economics, may be best known for his part in a debate that raged during the early part of the 20th Century about the possibility of successful economic coordination under socialism. Mises argued forcefully that state ownership of the means of production makes the best assignment of capital goods impossible, due to the absence of a market price system. Mises's student, Hayek, refined Mises's insights and both were vindicated by history. [MORE]


Environment

Richard Stroup Russell Stroup is a professor of economics at Montana State University and a senior associate of PERC. [MORE]


Constitutional Law

Lysander Spooner Theorist, pamphleteer, activist, and businessman, Lysander Spooner joined ideas with action making him one of the most interesting figures of the classical liberal tradition. [MORE]


Libertarianism

Wendy McElroy [MORE]

Robert Nozick Robert Nozick almost single-handedly made libertarian political philosophy respectable within mainstream academia with the 1974 publication of his now classic Anarchy, State and Utopia, which garnered a National Book Award the following year. [MORE]


Anarcho-Capitalist

David Friedman David D. Friedman, son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, is a professor of law at Santa Clara University. He is known most for his work in political theory and economics. [MORE]

Lysander Spooner Theorist, pamphleteer, activist, and businessman, Lysander Spooner joined ideas with action making him one of the most interesting figures of the classical liberal tradition. [MORE]


Classical Liberal

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, is one of the most important intellectual figures contributing to the revival of classical liberal/libertarian thought after World War II. [MORE]

Andrew Humphries Andrew Humphries is currently a senior at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, pursuing his degree in the Liberal Arts, where he also runs a "Human Action" study group. [MORE]

Robert Nozick Robert Nozick almost single-handedly made libertarian political philosophy respectable within mainstream academia with the 1974 publication of his now classic Anarchy, State and Utopia, which garnered a National Book Award the following year. [MORE]

Murray Rothbard An academic and author who played a important role in the revival of the Austrian School of Economics and in the rebirth of libertarian and classical liberal ideas during the twentieth century, Murray Rothbard will be forever known as perhaps the most vocal American-born anti-statist of the post World War II-era. [MORE]

Lysander Spooner Theorist, pamphleteer, activist, and businessman, Lysander Spooner joined ideas with action making him one of the most interesting figures of the classical liberal tradition. [MORE]


Libertarian

David Boaz Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, David Boaz is a provocative commentator on a broad range of political and cultural issues; he has played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement. [MORE]

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, is one of the most important intellectual figures contributing to the revival of classical liberal/libertarian thought after World War II. [MORE]

David Friedman David D. Friedman, son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, is a professor of law at Santa Clara University. He is known most for his work in political theory and economics. [MORE]

Robert Nozick Robert Nozick almost single-handedly made libertarian political philosophy respectable within mainstream academia with the 1974 publication of his now classic Anarchy, State and Utopia, which garnered a National Book Award the following year. [MORE]

Murray Rothbard An academic and author who played a important role in the revival of the Austrian School of Economics and in the rebirth of libertarian and classical liberal ideas during the twentieth century, Murray Rothbard will be forever known as perhaps the most vocal American-born anti-statist of the post World War II-era. [MORE]


Objectivist

Ayn Rand Ayn Rand is the author of the classic American novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and the originator of a comprehensive philosophical system called "Objectivism" that emphasizes the primacy of human reason, the moral importance of individualism and the necessity of political freedom. [MORE]


Natural Rights

David Hume A leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume is modern philosophy's most thorough-going naturalist, arguing that the mind itself knows nothing without experience. [MORE]