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Who's Who

The content of the Library of Economics and Liberty website is selected by an independent Advisory Board, comprised of academics with a broad range of interests, along with Liberty Fund staff members, and is assembled by the Editor.

Editorial Staff

Lauren F. Landsburg, Editor. Lauren Landsburg is a private computer consultant and custom programmer in Rochester, New York. She migrated to this occupation from running a business specializing in typesetting textbooks using her own software based on TeX. Before that, she taught economics at the University of Rochester and served on the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Reagan and G. H. Bush. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, preceded by an A.M. in Chinese from Yale University. She became interested in international finance after she noticed that classical Chinese texts regularly reported money supply figures. She is a co-author of a textbook, Macroeconomics, and has published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.

Russell Roberts, Associate Editor. Russell Roberts is Professor of Economics and the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Before coming to George Mason University, Roberts was at Washington University in St. Louis where he was the founding director of the Center for Experiential Learning at the John M. Olin School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. Roberts has also taught at the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and UCLA. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Roberts is a regular commentator on business and economics for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. In addition to numerous academic publications, he has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Professor Roberts is especially interested in communicating economics to non-economists. His first novel, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism, a jargon-free book on international trade written for the non-economist, was named one of the top ten books of 1994 by Business Week and one of the best books of 1994 by the Financial Times. An updated and revised edition was published in the spring of 2000. His new book is The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (MIT Press, 2001).

Russ Roberts is the host of EconTalk, economics podcasts available here and through iTunes. He blogs at Cafe Hayek along with Don Boudreaux.

List of Econlib Columns

David R. Henderson, Features Editor. David Henderson is Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is also a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution. Before coming to the Naval Postgraduate School, Henderson was the Senior Economist for Health Policy and Energy Policy with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. Henderson has also been on the faculty of Santa Clara University and the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

He has written in a wide range of scholarly publications and has published over 200 articles and book reviews in magazines and newspapers, including, in declining order of frequency, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Red Herring, the Freeman, Reason, and Regulation. One of his specialties is making economics understandable to non-economists. He has written, edited, or co-authored four books, The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (1993), The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey (2002), Making Great Decisions in Business and Life (2006), and The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2008). He has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, CNN, and C-SPAN. In 1984, he won the Mencken Award for Best Investigative Journalism Article.

David Henderson blogs on EconLog. See his EconLog Author Archive for a list of his EconLog posts.

Advisory Board

Mark Bils, University of Rochester. Mark Bils is an associate professor of economics at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Bils has taught previously at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and as a visiting professor at MIT. He has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and an Olin Fellow at the NBER. Bils serves as an associate editor both of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the web-based B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT, following a BA degree from the Ohio State University.

Bils' recent research has focused on how pricing behavior contributes to business-cycle fluctuations, the importance of schooling differences across countries, and the importance of new and better consumer products. His recent published work on these topics includes "What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles" (written with James A. Kahn, American Economic Review, June 2000), "Does Schooling Cause Growth?" (written with Peter J. Klenow, American Economic Review, December 2000), and "Quantifying Quality Growth" (written with Peter J. Klenow, American Economic Review, forthcoming 2001).

Don Boudreaux, Donald J. Boudreaux is Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He's held this position since August 2001. Previously, he was president of the Foundation for Economic Education (1997-2001); Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Economics at Clemson University (1992-1997); and Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University (1985-1989).

During the Spring 1996 semester he was an Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics at the Cornell Law School. His PhD in economics is from Auburn University (1986) and his law degree is from the University of Virginia (1992).

He has lectured, in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe, on a wide variety of topics, including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade. He is published in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Regulation, Reason, Ideas on Liberty, the Washington Times, The Journal of Commerce, the Cato Journal, and several scholarly journals such as the Supreme Court Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Don Boudreaux blogs at Cafe Hayek along with Russ Roberts.

Dwight Lee, University of Georgia. Professor Lee has been the Ramsey Professor of Economics and Private Enterprise at the University of Georgia since 1985. Before that, he taught at the University of Colorado, Virginia Tech University and George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Professor Lee's research has covered a variety of areas including the Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources, the Economics of Political Decision Making, Public Finance, Law and Economics, and Labor Economics. He has published over 100 articles in academic journals, over 100 articles and commentaries in magazines and newspaper, and has coauthored 8 books and served as the contributing editor of two more. He has lectured at universities and conferences throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. He was president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education for 1994-95 and president of the Southern Economic Association from 1997-98.

Liberty Fund Staff

James Cote, Webmaster. James Cote is a Fellow, and Director of Information Services at the Liberty Fund. Before coming to Liberty Fund, Cote worked as a project leader at MCI and as a computer consultant for companies such as NEC, LTV Steel, the NCUA and Southwest Airlines. He graduated from Trinity University.

David M. Hart, Director of the Online Library of Liberty Project, Liberty Fund. Before joining Liberty Fund in 2001, David taught modern European history at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia. He received a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge and an MA from Stanford University. His research interests include the history of classical liberal thought, film and history, and the use of IT in teaching and learning.

Nyle Kardatzke, now retired, former Econlib Liaison from 2006-2009. A Senior Fellow who worked in the Liberty Fund conference program, he graduated from Anderson University (Indiana) and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from UCLA. He taught economics at Marquette University before spending most of his career as a private school headmaster in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Indiana. He has been succeeded as Econlib Liaison by Amy Willis.

Amy Willis, Econlib Liaison for Liberty Fund, is a Liberty Fund Fellow who also works in the Liberty Fund conference program. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and holds Masters degrees from the University of Delaware and Arizona State University. She taught high school and college economics in Arizona, and served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Council on Economic Education before joining Liberty Fund in 2006.