The Independent Institute/Personnel

Personnel involved with the The Independent Institute, a California-based think tank include:

Executives and Research Fellows

Board of Directors

• Gilbert I. Collins - Private Equity Manager
• Robert L. Erwin - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Large Scale Biology Corporation
• James D. Fair - Chairman, Algonquin Petroleum Corporation
• Peter A. Howley - Co-Founder, IP Wireless Inc.
• W. Dieter Tede - Owner, Hopper Creek
• David J. Theroux - Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Independent Institute
• Mary L. G. Theroux - Former Chairman, Garvey International, Inc.
• Peter A. Thiel - Founder, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PayPal, Inc.
• Sally von Behren - Businesswoman and Philanthropist

In Memoriam Board of Directors

• Johan F. Blokker - President and Chief Executive Officer, Luxcom, Inc.
• John S. Fay - President, Piney Woods Corporation
• A. Neil McLeod - Founding President, Liberty Fund, Inc.
• James P. Miscoll - Vice Chairman, Bank of America
• Willard A. Speakman - President and Chief Executive Officer, Speakman Company

Board of Advisors

• Herman Belz - Professor of History, University of Maryland
• Thomas Bethell - Columnist and Author, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
• Thomas E. Borcherding - Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate School
• Boudewijn R. A. Bouckaert - Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
• James M. Buchanan - Nobel Laureate in Economic Science University Professor, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University
• Allan C. Carlson - President, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
• Robert D. Cooter - Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert W. Crandall - Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
• Richard A. Epstein - James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
• A. Ernest Fitzgerald - Author, The High Priests of Waste and The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement and Fraud in Defense Spending
• B. Delworth Gardner - Emeritus Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
• George Gilder - Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
• Nathan Glazer - Professor of Education and Sociology, Harvard University
• William M. H. Hammett - Former President, Manhattan Institute
• Ronald Hamowy - Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
• Steve H. Hanke - Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Ronald Max Hartwell - Emeritus Professor of History, Oxford University, England
• James J. Heckman - Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
• Wendy Kaminer - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly; Member, Board of Directors, ACLU
• Lawrence A. Kudlow - Chief Executive Officer, Kudlow & Company; Co-Host, Kudlow & Cramer, CNBC; Former Associate Director for Economics and Planning, Office of Management and Budget
• John R. MacArthur - Publisher, Harper's Magazine
• Deirdre N. McCloskey - Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
• J. Huston McCulloch - Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
• Thomas Gale Moore - Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Charles Murray - Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
• Michael Novak - George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute
• June E. O’Neill - Director, Center for the Study of Business & Government, Baruch College; Former Director, U.S. Congressional Budget Office
• P. J. O’Rourke - Author, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism, Eat the Rich, and Parliament of Whores
• Tom Peters - Co-Author, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies ; Author, Liberation Management and A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Diffference
• Charles E. Phelps - Provost and Professor of Political Science and Economics, University of Rochester
• Paul Craig Roberts - Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Nathan Rosenberg - Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University
• Simon Rottenberg - Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
• Paul H. Rubin - Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University
• Bruce M. Russett - Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University; Editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution
• Pascal Salin - Professor of Economics, University of Paris, France
• William F. Shughart II - Robert M. Hearin Chair in Economics and Finance, University of Mississippi
• Vernon L. Smith - Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Professor of Economics and Law, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University
• Joel H. Spring - Professor of Education, State University of New York, New Paltz
• Richard L. Stroup - Professor of Economics, Montana State University
• Thomas S. Szasz - Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Health Science Center, State University of New York, Syracuse
• Robert D. Tollison - BB&T Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• Arnold J. Trebach - Professor of Law, American University
• William Tucker - Author, The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies
• Gordon Tullock - University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
• Gore Vidal - National Book Award-Winner, Playwright, Screenwriter, and Author of the “American Chronicle” Series of Historical Novels
• Richard E. Wagner - Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Alan Walters - Vice Chairman, AIG Trading Company
• Paul H. Weaver
• Walter E. Williams - Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Charles Wolf - Senior Economist and Corporate Fellow, International Economics, RAND Corporation

In Memoriam Board of Advisors

• Stephen E. Ambrose - Professor of History Emeritus, University of New Orleans
• M. E. Bradford - Professor of English, University of Dallas
• Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. - Late Professor of History, State University of New York, Albany
• Jonathan Kwitny - Author, Endless Enemies and The Crimes of Patriots
• Merton H. Miller - Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Professor of Finance Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
• Murray N. Rothbard - S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Arthur Seldon - Founder-Director, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England
• Julian L. Simon - Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland
• William E. Simon - Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Aaron B. Wildavsky - Class of 1940 Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Senior Fellows

• Bruce L. Benson - DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, Florida State University
• Ivan Eland - Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Peace & Liberty
• Robert Higgs - Senior Fellow in Political Economy. Editor, The Independent Review.
• Charles Peña - Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Alvaro Vargas Llosa - Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Richard K. Vedder - Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University

Research Fellows

• Gary M. Anderson - Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• Karen LaFollette Araujo - President, Hemispheric Studies Institute
• Dominick T. Armentano - Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Hartford
• Robert C. Arne - Co-Director, The School of Choice
• Wilfred Beckerman - Professor of Economics, Oxford University, England
• Boris Begovic
• David T. Beito - Professor of History, University of Alabama
• Daniel K. Benjamin - Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• Kiran Bhatt - Economist, K.T. Analytics, Inc.
• Boudewijn R. A. Bouckaert - Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
• Donald J. Boudreaux - Chairman and Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University
• Samuel Jan Brakel - Vice President, Management, Legal Affairs and Project Development, Isaac Ray Center, Inc.
• Timothy J. Brennan - Professor of Policy Sciences, University of Maryland
• Jo-Christy Brown - Partner, Brown, Carls & Mitchell, L.L.P.
• Richard C. K. Burdekin - Professor of Economics, Claremont-McKenna College
• Noel D. Campbell - Professor of Economics, North Georgia College & State University
• Thomas F. Cargill - Professor of Economics, University of Nevada
• Allan C. Carlson - President, Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
• Christopher J. Check - Executive Vice President, Rockford Institute
• Lloyd R. Cohen - Professor of Law, George Mason University
• Timothy J. Considine - Director, Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, Pennsylvania State University
• Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Terry Daniel - Professor of Business, University of Alberta
• Patricia M. Danzon - Professor of Health Care Systems, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Stephen J. Davies - Professor of English and History, Manchester Polytechnic, England
• Alan Day - Professor, London School of Economics
• Robert T. Deacon - Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Donald N. DeWees - Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo - Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
• David E. Dismukes - Professor of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland
• Justus D. Doenecke - Professor of History, New College, University of South Florida
• George W. Douglas - Economic Counsel, George W. Douglas and Company
• Kevin Dowd - Yorkshire Bank Professor of Economics, University of Sheffield, England
• Donald A. Downs - Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism, University of Wisconsin
• Stephen P. Dresch - Former Dean, Michigan Technological University's School of Business and Engineering Administration
• Robert B. Ekelund - Edward and Catherine Lowder Emminent Scholar of Economics, Auburn University
• Richard A. Epstein - James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
• Williamson M. Evers - Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Roger D. Feldman - Professor, Center for Health Services Research, University of Minnesota
• Antony G. N. Flew - Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Reading University, England
• Fred E. Foldvary - Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
• Kenneth R. Foster - Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
• Arthur E. Foulkes - Professor of Government, Northwood University
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese - Eleanore Raoul Professor of Humanities, Emory University
• David T. Fractor - Manager, Forensic Economics, Findlay Phillips & Associates
• H. E. Frech - Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Lowell E. Gallaway - Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University
• Paula A. Gant - Fellow in Economics, Auburn University
• Bruce L. Gardner - Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
• Frederick Giarrusso - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Angenous, Ltd.
• Adam Gifford - Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• David Glasner - Staff Economist, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
• Peter Gordon - Professor of Planning and Economics, University of Southern California
• David G. Green - Director, Health and Welfare Unit, Institute of Economic Affairs, England
• Thomas Grennes - Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
• David D. Haddock - Professor of Law, Northwestern University
• Stephen Halbrook - Constitutional Legal Scholar
• Ronald Hamowy - Emeritus Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada
• Steve H. Hanke - Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Ronald W. Hansen - Professor of Management, University of Rochester
• Clark C. Havighurst - William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University
• Ian G. Heggie - Roads Advisor, World Bank; Lecturer, University of Birmingham
• Eric A. Helland - Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
• Peter J. Hill - George F. Bennett Professor of Economics, Wheaton College
• Jack Hirshleifer - Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
• William W. Hogan - Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
• Randall G. Holcombe - DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University
• Peter W. Huber - Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
• Jeffrey Rogers Hummel - Assistant Professor of Economics, San Jose State University
• Gail A. Jensen - Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
• David L. Kaserman - Torchmark Professor of Economics, Auburn University
• Don B. Kates Jr. - Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Charles E. Kay - Professor of Political Science, Utah State University
• Robert E. Keleher - Chief Macroeconomist, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
• Michael K. Kellogg - Senior Partner, Kellogg, Huber & Hansen
• C. Ronald Kimberling - Senior Vice President and Provost, Phillips College, Inc.
• Daniel B. Klein - Professor of Economics at George Mason University; co-author of FDAReview.org
• Andrew N. Kleit - Professor of Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economics, Pennsylvania State University
• Bruce H. Kobayashi - Professor of Law, George Mason University
• William E. Kovacic - Professor of Law, George Mason University
• James A. Langenfeld - Former Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
• Christopher Layne - Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Miami
• Dwight R. Lee - Ramsey Chair, Department of Economics, Terry School of Business, University of Georgia
• David R. Legates - Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Research, University of Delaware
• Pierre Lemieux - Visiting Professor of Economics, Universitè du Quèbec en Outaouais, Canada
• David M. Levinson - Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
• Stan J. Liebowitz - Associate Dean, School of Management, University of Texas, Dallas
• Cotton M. Lindsay - Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• James M. Lindsay - Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
• Spencer Heath MacCallum - Director, Heather Foundation
• Jonathan R. Macey - J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University
• Tibor R. Machan - Professor of Philosophy, Chapman University
• John D. Majewski - Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Steven E. Margolis - Head, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
• William Marina - Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University
• Jonathan Victor Marshall - Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Joseph P. Martino - Senior Research Scientist, University of Dayton
• Kenneth R. Mayer - Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
• Fred S. McChesney - Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern University
• Paul W. McCracken - Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy, University of Michigan; former Chairman, President's Council of Economics Advisors
• Wendy McElroy - Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• William C. McLeod - Member, Collier, Shannon, & Scott, PLLC
• Roger E. Meiners - Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Arlington
• John D. Merrifield - Professor of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio
• Robert J. Michaels - Professor of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
• Jeffrey A. Miron - Professor of Economics, Boston University
• William C. Mitchell - Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
• Herbert Mohring - Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
• Michael A. Morrisey - Director, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama
• Andrew P. Morriss - Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
• Robert H. Nelson - Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
• Randal O'Toole - Senior Fellow, Thoreau Institute
• Edward A. Olsen - Professor of National Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School
• Ernest C. Pasour Jr. - Professor Emeritus of Economics, North Carolina State University
• Ilan Peleg - Dean Professor of Social Sciences, Lafayette College
• Lewis Perry - John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair of History, St. Louis University
• Craig S. Pirrong - Professor of Economics, University of Houston
• Andre Plourde - Professor of Business, University of Alberta
• Daniel D. Polsby - Associate Dean, School of Law, George Mason University
• Robert W. Poole Jr. - Founder, Reason Foundation
• Benjamin Powell - Research Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation
• Randall J. Pozdena - Managing Director, ECONorthwest
• Adam C. Pritchard - Professor of Law, University of Michigan
• David W. Rasmussen - Director, Policy Sciences Center, Florida State University
• Nicholas Rescher - University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
• Alan Reynolds - Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
• Harry W. Richardson - Professor of Policy, Planning & Development, University of Southern California
• Sheldon L. Richman - Editor, The Freeman
• Paul Craig Roberts - Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Kenneth J. Robinson - Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Neil Roden - Manager, Private Finance Team, Highways Agency, United Kingdom Department of Transport
• Robert A. Rogowsky - Director of Operations, U.S. International Trade Commission
• Gabriel Roth - Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• Simon Rottenberg - Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
• Paul H. Rubin - Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University
• Randal R. Rucker - Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
• Barbara A. Ryan - Vice President of Industry Analysis, Capital Economics
• David O. Sacks - Former Vice President, Product Strategy, PayPal, Inc.
• Peter Samuel - Editor and Publisher, Toll Roads Newsletter
• Kurt A. Schuler - Economics Consultant
• Jordan A. Schwarz - Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
• Larry J. Sechrest - Professor of Economics, Sul Ross State University
• Frederick Seitz - Former President, Rockefeller University; former President, National Academy of Science
• John Semmens - Senior Planner, Arizona Department of Transportation
• Eugenia D. Short - Former Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• William F. Shughart II - Robert M. Hearin Chair in Economics and Finance, University of Mississippi
• Randy T. Simmons - Director, Institute of Political Economy, Utah State University
• S. Fred Singer - Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia
• John W. Sommer - Knight Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina
• Joel H. Spring - Professor of Education, State University of New York, New Paltz
• Robert B. Stinnett - Research Fellow, The Independent Institute. Author, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
• Edward P. Stringham
• Joseph R. Stromberg - Independent Historian
• Richard L. Stroup - Professor of Economics, Montana State University
• Edward C. Sullivan - Professor of Civil Engineering, California State Polytechnic University
• Paul Sullivan - Professor of Economics, National Defense University
• Shirley V. Svorny - Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• Alexander Tabarrok - Research Director, The Independent Institute
• Peter A. Thiel - Founder, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PayPal, Inc.
• Mark Thornton - Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Richard H. Timberlake - Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Georgia
• James Tooley - Professor of Education Policy, University New Castle, England
• Gordon Tullock - University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, George Mason University
• Charlotte Twight - Adjunct Fellow; Professor of Economics, Boise State University
• Frank van Dun - Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Olegario G. Villoria Jr. - President, OGV Consulting, Inc.
• Richard E. Wagner - Hobart R. Hobart Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Thomas F. Walton - Former Economist, Federal Trade Commission
• Alan Rufus Waters - Professor of Finance and Business Law, California State University, Fresno
• William J. Watkins Jr. - Research Fellow, The Independent Institute
• John T. Wenders - Professor of Economics, University of Idaho
• Jilleen R. Westbrook - Professor of Economics, Temple University
• Lawrence H. White - Friedrich A. Hayek Professor of Economic History, University of Missouri, St. Louis
• Douglas Glen Whitman - Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University, Northridge
• Thomas D. Willett - Horton Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University
• Bruce Yandle - Alumni Professor of Economics, Clemson University
• Leland B. Yeager - Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Auburn University
• Brenda Yelvington - Fellow in Accounting, University of Mississippi

(data scraped from Independent Institute Website] 2006.11.15)

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