PROJECT ON GLOBAL ECONOMIC LIBERTY
Ian Vásquez, Director • Jacobo Rodríguez, Assistant Director



 

 

Adjunct Scholars:

  • Carlos Ball runs Agencia Interamericana de Prensa Económica (AIPE), a wire service in Florida that distributes market-liberal op-eds to major newspapers in Latin America. His opinion pieces have appeared throughout Latin America as well as in U.S. publications, including the Wall Street Journal.
  • Reuven Brenner holds the Racap Chair in Economics at McGill University's School of Management. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is Labyrinths of Prosperity: Economic Follies, Democratic Remedies. He writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Le Figaro, and Asia Times.
  • Kevin Dowd is professor of financial economics at University of Sheffield (England). He is an expert on monetary and financial economics and the history of banking.
  • Enrique Ghersi is an attorney in Lima, Peru, and one of the key people who prepared the intellectual ground for the shift toward, and acceptance of, free markets in Latin America. He is coauthor, with Hernando de Soto, of The Other Path.
  • James D. Gwartney is professor of economics and policy sciences at Florida State University. He is an expert on such economic issues as taxation, labor policy, and the economic analysis of government. He is coauthor of What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity, Economics: Public and Private Choice, and Economic Freedom of the World.
  • Steve H. Hanke is professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and a columnist for Forbes magazine. He is an expert on commodity markets, currency markets, privatization, and trade. He is the editor of Capital Markets and Development and Privatization and Development.
  • Jerry L. Jordan is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He is an expert on monetary issues, fiat currency, international debt, and financial institutions.
  • Deepak Lal is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books and numerous scholarly articles. His most recent book, published by MIT Press, is Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance.
  • David I. Meiselman is professor emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and distinguished research scholar at the Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University. He is an expert on monetary and financial economics, public finance, and international trade and finance. He is the author of The Term Structure of Interest Rates and The Varieties of Monetary Experience.
  • Roberto Salinas-León is the director of policy analysis at TV Azteca in Mexico City. He is an expert on trade, monetary policy, and economic liberalization in Latin America and coeditor of Money and Markets in the Americas.
  • Pedro Schwartz is professor of economics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. He is an expert on pensions, monetary policy, and the European Economic Community.
  • George A. Selgin is associate professor of economics at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on banking, monetary policy, and macroeconomics. He is coauthor of Bank Deregulation and Monetary Order.
  • Richard H. Timberlake is a former professor of economics at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, and the history of central banking. He is the author of Monetary Policy in the United States.
  • Lawrence H. White is associate professor of economics at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on banking and monetary policy. He is the author of Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money.
  • Leland B. Yeager is professor emeritus of economics at Auburn University. He is an expert on monetary policy and international trade.
  • Kate Xiao Zhou is professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is an expert on comparative politics, Chinese politics, women and development, and the political economy of East Asia. She is the author of How the Farmers Changed China: The Power of the People.

 

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