Speakers at FFF Events

• Roger W. Garrison
  
  

  Professor Garrison has been a member of the faculty at Auburn University since 1978. He teaches macroeconomics at both the principles level and the advanced level and is widely known for his Austrian-oriented  writings on capital, money, business cycles, and deficit finance. A member of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Professor Garrison also maintains affiliations with the Foundation for Economic Education of Irvington-on-Hudson, New York and with the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Auburn, Alabama. Professor Garrison’s work appears in such journals as the American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, History of Political Economy, South African Journal of Economics, Cato Journal, and Review of Austrian Economics. He co-authored, with Israel M. Kirzner, the entry on Nobelist F. A. Hayek for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (1987). 

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• Bettina Bien Greaves
  
  

  From 1951 to 1969, Bettina attended Mises graduate seminar in economic theory at New York University. In 1975 FEE published her two-volume work, Free Market Economics (A Syllabus and a Basic Reader), intended to help high school teachers explain free market principles to students. She translated from the German several of Mises studies which were published in 1978 as On the Manipulation of Money and Credit. She also compiled and edited a collection of his short articles, published in 1990 as Economic Freedom and Free Enterprise.  In addition, she compiled a detailed two-volume work, Mises: An Annotated Bibliography, published in 1993 and 1995, which lists books and articles by and about Mises. Moreover, in 1996 she compiled and edited an anthrology of papers, Austrian Economics, by and about early Austrian economists and their subjective, marginal utility theory of value. And in 1998 she edited, Interventionism: An Economic Analysis, by Ludwig von Mises.

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• Robert Higgs
  
  

  Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College and Seattle University. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow for the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Higgs is the editor of The Independent Institute books, Hazardous to Our Health? FDA Regulation of Health Care Products and Arms, Politics and the Economy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, plus the volume, Emergence of the Modern Political Economy. His authored books include The Transformation of the American Economy 1865-1914, Competition and Coercion, and Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author of over 100 articles and reviews in academic journals, and in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Society, and The New York Times.

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• Randall G. Holcombe
  
  

  Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University.  He received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and taught at Texas A&M University and at Auburn University prior to coming to Florida State in 1988.  Dr. Holcombe is also Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the James Madison Institute, a Tallahassee-based think tank that specializes in issues facing state governments, and is a member of Governor Jeb Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors.  He is the author of nine books and more than 100 articles and reviews published in academic and professional journals.  His primary areas of research are public finance and the economic analysis of public policy issues.

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• Jacob G. Hornberger
  
  Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, publisher of Ideas on Liberty.

  In 1989, Mr. Hornberger founded The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is a regular writer for The Foundation's publication, Freedom Daily. Fluent in Spanish, he has delivered speeches and engaged in debates about libertarianism to groups all over the United States, as well as Canada, England, Eastern Europe, and South America. He has also advanced libertarianism on talk-radio stations all across the country. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, La Prensa San Diego, El Nuevo Miami Herald, and many others, both in the United States and in Latin America. He is a co-editor or contributor to the seven books that have been published by the Foundation.

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• Jeffrey R. Hummel
  
  

  Jeffrey Rogers Hummel is an expert on the American Civil War. He has explained why slavery probably would have ended even without the Civil War, which means it was a needless tragedy. He tells how the War ushered in the era of big government with taxes, tariffs and regulations harming millions. His controversial book Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men was published in 1996. He had previously written audiotape scripts for Knowledge Products on the Constitution (narrated by Walter Cronkite) and on American Wars (narrated by George C. Scott). His articles have appeared in Reason, Liberty, Independent Review, the Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Journal of Austrian Economics. He is associate adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, San Francisco and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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• Israel Kirzner
  
  

  Israel Kirzner was born on February 13, 1930, in London, England. Between 1940 and 1948, he lived in Cape Town, South Africa. He attended the University of Cape Town in 1947 and 1948 and the University of London in 1950 and 1951. He came to the United States and was a student at Brooklyn College in New York City from 1952 to 1954, earning a B.A. degree, summa cum laude. In 1955, he received an M.B.A. from New York University. And he earned his Ph.D. in economics from NYU in 1957. From 1954 to 1956, he worked as Ludwig von Mises’s graduate assistant, and wrote The Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought, a study of the development of economics as a theory of the logic of choice and human action, as his dissertation under Mises’s supervision. It was published as his first book in 1960. In the 40 years since earning his doctoral degree, Kirzner has published 11 books, more than 100 articles, and more than 30 book reviews. He has also been one of the leading intellectual forces in bringing about the revival of the Austrian school of economics, after its long hiatus following the triumph of Keynesian economics after the Second World War.

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• Richard N. Langlois
  
  

  Richard N. Langlois is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Institutions, Organizations, and Markets at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford in 1981.

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• Leonard Liggio
  
  

  Leonard P. Liggio is executive vice president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Institute for Humane Studies. He is also a research professor at the George Mason University School of Law. In addition, he is currently treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society and a trustee (and former president) of the Philadelphia Society. He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence.

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• Victor Niederhoffer
  
  

  Victor Niederhoffer is a private speculator specializing in futures and options trading. A graduate of Harvard ('64) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. '68), Victor founded a merger-and-acquisition firm in the mid-1960s. For a decade, he was unbeaten as national squash champion. In the late 1970s Victor began speculating in commodity markets, making and losing several fortunes. He started trading for customers (and George Soros) in the early 1980s and was managing more than $100 million by the mid-1990s. For several years he had the best track record in the world before investments in emerging markets in 1997 caused his fund to close. Since 1997 he has continued to trade for his own account using principles outlined in his best-selling book, The Education of a Speculator. He currently writes a weekly column on the markets with co-author Laurel Kenner on MSN Money. His interests include electricity, ecology, musical theater, chess and checkers, sports, old books and folk art.

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