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George Mason University, USA, and a BA (Hons) from the University of
Liverpool, UK.
Peter T. Leeson is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of
Chicago's Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory and BB&T Professor
for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University, Virginia.
Formerly, he was a Visiting Fellow in Political Economy and Government
at Harvard University and the F.A. Hayek Fellow at the London School
of Economics.
Stephen C. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Western
Carolina University. His research focuses on the role bias and irrationality
play in forming voters' political and economic beliefs. Miller received his
PhD from George Mason University, Virginia and his BA degree from
Towson University, Maryland.
Benjamin Powell is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Suffolk
University, Boston, Massachusetts, a senior economist with the Beacon
Hill Institute at Suffolk University, and a research fellow with The
Independent Institute. Professor Powell is the editor of Making Poor
Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford
University Press, 2008), co-editor of Housing America: Building Out of a
Crisis (Transaction, 2009) and author of more than 30 scholarly articles
and policy studies. He earned his BS in Economics and Finance from
the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his MA and PhD in
Economics from George Mason University.
Frederic Sautet is an economist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason
University. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of
Paris and studied, as a post-doctorate fellow, under the auspices of Prof.
Israel Kirzner, Peter Boettke, and Mario Rizzo at New York University.
Dr Sautet teaches a course on entrepreneurship theory and policy in the
Masters program in economics at George Mason University. He has
widely published on the topic of entrepreneurship and is the author of An
Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm published in 2000 by Routledge.
Virgil Henry Storr is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of
Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center and the Don C.
Lavoie Research Fellow in the Program in Philosophy, Politics and
Economics, Department of Economics, George Mason University. He
holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University and did his
undergraduate work at Beloit College, Wisconsin. Virgil is the author of
Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates (Peter Lang, 2004) and his writings in
political economy have been published or are forthcoming in Rationality &