The Independent Institute/Personnel

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

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
(data scraped from Independent Institute Website] 2006.11.15)
 * 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

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 * Anthony Gregory - is a research analyst at the Independent Institute