Speakers at FFF Events

• Nathaniel Branden
  
  

  With a Ph.D. in psychology and a background in philosophy, Nathaniel Branden is a practicing psychotherapist in Los Angeles, and, in addition, does corporate consulting and offers seminars, workshops, and conferences on the application of self-esteem principles and technology to the problems of modern business. Nathaniel Branden’s 20 books have been translated into 18 languages, with more than 3.5 million copies in print. His works include the classic ,The Psychology of Self-Esteem, originally published in 1969, with a new, 32nd anniversary edition published in 2001. More recently, Nathaniel Branden has published The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (1994), Taking Responsibility (1996), and The Art of Living Consciously (1997), Self-Esteem Every Day (1998), Self-Esteem at Work (1998), A Woman’s Self-Esteem (1998), and My Years with Ayn Rand (1999).

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• James M. Buchanan
  
  

  James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Science, 1986, is currently Advisory General Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Board of Visitors, President, and Faculty George Mason University.

  Professor Buchanan received his doctorate from the University of Chicago (1948) and subsequently taught at the University of Tennessee, Florida State University, University of Virginia, UCLA, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he established the Center for Study of Public Choice. He moved from the Center to George Mason University in 1983. Holder of four honorary doctoral degrees from Universities worldwide, and Distinguished Fellow of The American Economic Association, Professor Buchanan is author of over thirteen books and hundreds of articles in the areas of public finance, public choice, constitutional economics and economic philosophy. He is best known for such works as Fiscal Theory and Political Economy, The Calculus of Consent, The Limits of Liberty, Democracy in Deficit, The Power to Tax, and The Reason of Rules.

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• Ted Galen Carpenter
  
  

  Cato Insitute Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Carpenter is on the forefront of efforts to develop a new U.S. security strategy that minimizes costs and risks to the American people. He recommends a policy of “strategic independence,” which would phase out America’s obsolete Cold War-era alliances and avoid involvement in murky nation-building missions. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston Globe, and the Asian Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, National Public Radio, Fox News Channel, CNBC, CNN, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and the BBC. Carpenter, who joined the Cato Institute in 1985, holds a doctorate in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas. He has written or edited 13 books and published more than 200 articles on international affairs. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs around the world.

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• Doug Casey
  
  

  Doug Casey is the editor of International Speculator, a monthly newsletter that brings his latest picks and insights from wherever in the world he may be. Doug Casey has been quoted in The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, Barron’s and a score of other financial publications. Well-spoken, smart, and always provocative he’s appeared on NBC News specials, Donahue, Larry King, David Letterman, Charlie Rose and CNN. He’s a disciple of Ayn Rand, a die-hard individualist who believes in free-market capitalism and making your own way.

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• Alejandro Chafuen
  
  

  President and Chief Executive Officer of The Atlas Economic Research Foundation, he received his Phd. in economics at International College in Los Angeles under the tutelage of Hans Sennholz.

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• Roy Cordato
  
  

  Dr. Roy E. Cordato is the Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC, a position he has held since August, 1993.

  From 1987 — 1993 he was Senior Economist at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET) in Washington, DC. Dr. Cordato has also served as full time economics faculty at the University of Hartford (1985-1987) and at Auburn University (1980-1981). From 1991 to 1993, he was an adjunct faculty member at John Hopkins Universtiy.

  Professor Cordato has had numerous publications including a 1992 book, Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open Ended Universe, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. His academic articles have appeared in economics journals, political science journals, and law reviews. His public policy analyses have been published by IRET, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Cato Institute, The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The John Locke Foundation, Citizens Against Government Waste, and The Reason Foundation and have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Journal of Commerce, Tax Notes, The Congressional Record, The Orange County Register, The Freeman, Liberty Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, The Raleigh News & Observer, Human Events, and many other publications.

  Professor Cordato has presented his research at the annual meetings of a number of professional organizations, including The Southern Economics Association, The Eastern Economics Association, The Western Economics Association, The Public Choice Society, The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In August of 1995, Dr. Cordato testified at hearings of the National Tax Commission, appointed by Senator Robert Dole and Representative Newt Gingrich, and chaired by former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. Professor Cordato serves on the academic advisory boards of The Ludwig von Mises Institute, The John Locke Foundation, and The Heartland Institute. He received an M.A. in economics in 1980 from the University of Hartford and a Ph.D in economics from George Mason University in 1987.

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• Thomas DiLorenzo
  
  

  Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of ecnomics at Loyola College’s Sellinger School of Business and Management. Tom has been a member of the Sellinger Faculty since 1992.  His areas of expertise are: Economic History, Industrial Organization, and Anti-trust History. Originally from nearby Pennsylvania, Tom was drawn to Loyola College because of its prescience in the region.  Besides teaching at Loyola, Tom enjoys an atmosphere in which there is a freedom to do research, and where research is rewarded.  Last year, Tom received the Distinguished Research Award given by the Board of Sponsors of the Sellinger School of Business and Management.  Aside from his current research in his field, Tom is also an avid Civil War History buff.  In 2002, his book entitled The Real Lincoln hit the shelves.  The book describes how our 16th president transformed American Economic Policy.

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• Richard. M. Ebeling
  
  

  Richard M. Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, and serves as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation. Born in New York City in 1950, he received his B.A. in economics from California State University, Sacramento, and his M.A. in economics from Rutgers University. Professor Ebeling has been a lecturer in economics at the National University of Ireland at Cork (1981–1983), and assistant professor of economics at the University of Dallas (1984–1988). He has been at Hillsdale College since 1988, and chairman of the Department of Economics since 1998.

  Professor Ebeling publishes a monthly article and book review in The Future of Freedom of Foundation's publication, Freedom Daily. His articles have appeared in Ideas on Liberty, Reason, Libertarian Review, Critical Review, Political Studies, Advances in Austrian Economics, The Austrian Economics Newsletter, International Journal of World Peace, American Journal of Economics and Sociology,and numerous other publications. His articles have also been published in Brazil, England, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and Russia.

  Among his recent writings are: "A Rational Economist in an Irrational Age: Ludwig von Mises" (The Age of Economists: From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman,Hillsdale College Press, 1999); "Wilhelm Ropeke: A Centenary Appreciation," (The Freeman,October 1999); Friedrich A. Hayek: A Centenary Appreciation" (The Freeman,May 1999); "The Free Market and the Interventionist State," (Between Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law,Hillsdale College Press, 1997); "Mission to Moscow: Ludwig von Mises's 'Lost Papers' and Their Signficance," (Liberty magazine, April 1997); "The Global Economy and Classical Liberalism: Past, Present and Future," (The Future of American Business,Hillsdale College Press, 1996); "World Peace, International Order and Classical Liberalism," (International Journal of World Peace,December 1995); "The Political Myths and Economic Realities of the Welfare State," (American Perestroika: The Demise of the Welfare State,Hillsdale College Press, 1995) and "Liberalism and Collectivism in the 20th Century," (The End of 'Isms'? Reflections on the Fate of Ideological Politics after Communism's Collapse,Blackwell, Publishers, 1994).

  He has edited and contributed to all seven books published by The Future of Freedom Foundation. He has also edited and contributed to Money, Method and the Market Process, Essays by Ludwig von Mises (1990); Austrian Economics: A Reader (1991); Austrian Economics: Retrospects on the Past and Prospects for the Future (1991); The Global Collapse of Socialism (1992); Global Free Trade: Rhetoric and Reality (1993); Can Capitalism Cope? Free Market Reform in the Post-Communist World (1994); Economic Education: What Should We Learn About the Free Market?(1994); and Disaster in Red: The Failure and Collapse of Socialism(1995). He is presently working an intellectual biography of the Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises and A Primer on Austrian Economics.

  In 1991, Professor Ebeling made six trips to the former Soviet Union consulting with the government of Lithuania and with members of the Russian Parliament in Moscow on free market reform and privatization of the socialist economy. He was in Vilnius, Lithuania, in January 1991, and witnessed the Soviet military crackdown in which 13 Lithuanians were killed. He was in Moscow in August 1991 during the failed coup-attempt and was at the barricades with the defenders of freedom at the Russian Parliament. He traveled, again, to Lithuania in August 1993 for consultation on market reforms and privatization.

  In October 1996, Richard Ebeling was once more in Moscow, Russia, this time uncovering the "lost papers" of the famous Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises. Looted by the Nazis from his Vienna apartment in 1938, Mises' papers were captured by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War. Professor Ebeling and his wife, Anna, were able to obtain photocopies of virtually the entire collection of documents numbering about 10,000 items, which had been kept in a secret archive in Moscow for 50 years. A selection of these photocopies and some originals on loan from the Russian government were placed on exhibition at Hillsdale College during the annual Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series in March 1997. Professor Ebeling is now in the process of supervising the translation of Mises' "lost papers" and editing them for publication. They will appear in three volumes, published by Liberty Fund of Indianapolis, Indiana. Volumes 1 and 2 have not yet been published; volume 3 was published under the title, Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction.

  Professor Ebeling also lectures widely on the problems of economic reform and change in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, as well as lecturing on economic policy in the United States, particularly on the topics of monetary policy, government regulation and the welfare state, and the economics of growth, stability and international trade.

  He lives in Hillsdale, Michigan with his wife, whom he met in Russia and who has a PhD in American Studies from Moscow State University. Their daughter, also named Anna, graduated from Hillsdale College in 1995 and is now a graduate student working on her PhD in physics at Caltech in Pasadena, California.

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• David Friedman
  
  

  David Friedman is the leading advocate of life without any government interference. He earned his B.A. at Harvard University, his M.S. and Ph.D. (both in physics) at the University of Chicago. After stints teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School and UCLA Department of Economics, among other places, he currently teaches law and economics at Santa Clara Unviersity in California. He is best-known for The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism, originally published as a Harper & Row mass market paperback in 1971, then issued as a hardcover by Arlington House in 1978 and by Open Court in 1989. It’s a charming yet rigorous classic on liberty which keeps coming back. It has been translated into French and Italian. Friedman’s other books include ,Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1993), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and his latest book, Law’s Order (2000). He has contributed chapters to 15 books including The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine (1987) and The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (1993). His articles have appeared in American Economic Review, Bell Journal, History of Political Economy, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Law School Roundtable, Public Choice, and Liberty, among other publications.

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