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Professor Caldwell's research focuses on the history of economic thought, with a specific interest in the life and works of the Nobel Laureate economist and social theorist F. A. Hayek. He is the author of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004) and since 2002 has served as the general editor of the book series The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek. In 2022 he published Mont Pelerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society as well as Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, the first of a two-volume biography that he is writing with Hansjoerg Klausinger.
In business since 2012, Smith's Etiquette for the Business of Life engages individuals and groups in hands-on learning to gain practical skills in etiquette and protocol and communication for all aspects of “the business of life.”
Beito is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama.
Beito's research covers a wide range of topics in American history including race, tax revolts, the private provision of infrastructure, mutual aid, and the political philosophies of Zora Neale Hurston, Rose Wilder Lane, and Isabel Paterson.
Henderson was professor of economics at the Graduate
School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, California and is a Research Fellow with the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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Dr. Donald J. Boudreaux is an author, professor, and economist. Dr. Boudreaux is a Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Mercatus Center Board Member, and a professor of economics and former chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University. Previously, he was Director of the Center for the Study of Public Choice; president of the Foundation for Economic Education (1997-2001); Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Economics at Clemson University (1992-1997); and Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University (1985-1989). Dr. Boudreaux holds the Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center and specializes in globalization and trade, law and economics, and antitrust economics.
Clark is Senior Lecturer and Program Director, Political Economy Project at Dartmouth.
Jacob Levy is the Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University. He is also the coordinator of the research group on Constitutional Studies at McGill.
Nicholas A. Snow is the BKT Assistant Professor of Economics and Tom and Anne Walsh Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Economics at Wabash College.
Paul Mueller is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University. Previously, Dr. Mueller taught at The King’s College in New York City.
Robert Doar is the president of the American Enterprise Institute.
Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy from Oxford University, and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne.
Sarah Skwire is a Senior Program Officer at Liberty Fund, Inc. Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
TAWNI HUNT FERRARINI is an economist, educator, and author who serves as a member of the Missouri State Board of Education, having been nominated by the governor in 2024. In addition, she is a faculty scholar with the Fraser Institute (Canada), the Council on Economic Education (Japan), the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (Michigan), and the Center for Regional Economic Research at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Until May 2024, she was the associate director of the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise, the director of the Economic Education Center, and the Robert W. Plaster Professor of Economic Education at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo.