Gerald Gaus is James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including On Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2008), Contemporary Theories of Liberalism (2003), Justificatory Liberalism (1996), and Value and Justification (1990). He most recently authored The Order of Public Reason (2011) and edited (with Fred D’Agostino) The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (2013). Professor Gaus directs the Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law program at the University of Arizona and is a founding editor of the journal Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He is currently writing a book entitled The Tyranny of the Ideal.
Scott Winship is Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution, his areas of expertise include living standards and economic mobility, inequality, and insecurity. Winship was previously Research Manager of the Economic Mobility Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and a senior policy advisor at Third Way. He is a columnist for Forbes.com, and his research has been published in National Affairs, National Review, Politico Magazine, The Wilson Quarterly, Breakthrough Journal, and Real Clear Markets, among other outlets.
Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She also designed and was inaugural Director of the university’s program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Professor Anderson has written numerous articles, widely reprinted, on varied subjects, including egalitarianism, democratic theory, antidiscrimination law, pragmatism, value theory, social epistemology, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, critical race theory, and theories of rationality and social norms. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (1993), and The Imperative of Integration (2010). She is currently working on a history of egalitarianism from the Levellers to the present.
Steven Horwitz is Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, and Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (1992). He has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and the economics and social theory of gender and the family, and his articles appear in journals such as History of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal, and The Cambridge Journal of Economics. Professor Horwitz is also a contributing editor of The Freeman, and is currently writing a book on classical liberalism and the family.
Paul Weithman is Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He also directs the university’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program. Professor Weithman has published widely in political philosophy, the philosophy of education, and medieval political theory. His most recent book, Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls’s Political Turn (2010), won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in Liberal and Democratic Theory in 2012. He is currently working on a project on political legitimacy.
Debra Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. Her articles appear in the journals Canadian Journal of Political Science, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social and Legal Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. Professor Thompson’s teaching and research interests include comparative politics and public policy, race and ethnic politics, and critical race theory. She is currently working on a book entitled The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census.
Sarah E. Skwire is a Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. Dr. Skwire has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, George Herbert Journal, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. She is the coauthor (with David Skwire) of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis (2014), which is in its twelfth edition, and writes a regular book review column for The Freeman Online. Dr. Skwire’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in the Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and her poetry has appeared, among other places, in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and Vocabula Review.
Govind Persad is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Stanford University, and a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Persad is the author or coauthor of several articles that appear in journals such as American Journal of Bioethics, Stanford Law Review, and Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. His dissertation, supported by a Richard and Dixie Grossman Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, examines the normative implications of upward and downward socioeconomic mobility. He has additional research interests in political philosophy, applied ethics, and philosophy of law.
Antony Davies is Associate Professor of Economics at Duquesne University and Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar at George Mason University. Dr. Davies has authored over a hundred op-eds in over thirty newspapers including Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, and Philadelphia Inquirer, and is a regular columnist for The Blaze and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He is also a frequent lecturer at policy conferences on Capitol Hill. In addition to teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Dr. Davies was Chief Analytics Officer at Parabon Computation, President and co-founder of Paragon Software, and co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer at Repliqa (now indiePub Games). His primary research interests include econometrics and public policy.
James R. Harrigan is Director of Academic Programs at Strata in Logan, Utah, and is a fellow of the Institute of Political Economy at Utah State University. Dr. Harrigan taught at the collegiate level for a number of years, became Dean of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and later served as Director of Academic Programs at the Institute for Humane Studies. He has written extensively for the popular press, with articles appearing in Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and a host of other outlets. His current work focuses on political philosophy, political economy, and public policy.
Megan Teague is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at George Mason University, and a research assistant at the Mercatus Center. Her research interests include economic history, comparative economic systems, and the ways in which informal institutions alter political-economic environments. Teague’s current work concerns interpreting relationships between materialism and various economic environments, as well as seeking out regulatory impacts on business development in the United States.
Kristin Voigt is Assistant Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Health and Social Policy. She is the coauthor (with Stuart Nicholls and Garrath Williams) of the book Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues (2014), and has authored or coauthored numerous articles appearing in journals such as International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Journal of Medical Ethics, New England Journal of Medicine, Jurisprudence, and Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy. Her research focuses on egalitarian theories of distributive justice and the links between philosophy and social policy.
Gry Wester is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Global Health Priorities research group at the University of Bergen. She is the author or coauthor of articles that appear or are forthcoming in Philosophy Compass, Public Health Ethics, and the Encyclopedia of Health Economics. Dr. Wester’s research interests are in distributive justice and theories of equality, in particular as applied to health, health care, and public health policy. Her current work focuses on prioritization of health care, policy implications of the social determinants of health, and conscientious objection in health care. She was formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium at McGill University.
Tom W. Bell is Professor of Law at Chapman University, Fowler School of Law. His work addresses a variety of issues in intellectual property, and law and technology, and appears in publications such as The Freeman, Southwestern Journal of International Law, National Review, and Case Western Law Review. He teaches intellectual property, Internet law, entertainment, property, tort, contract, and commercial law courses. Prior to his position at Chapman University, Professor Bell practiced at the largest law firm in Silicon Valley, and then at a boutique law firm in Washington, DC that specialized in regulated infrastructure industries. He also has served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute.
Daniel L. Bennett is Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of the Economics and Business Analytics program at Patrick Henry College. He is also Research Fellow with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. Professor Bennett’s writings have been published in academic journals such as The Independent Review and The Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, and as essays in policy analysis for think tanks such as the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Institute for Economic Affairs, Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics, and Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He has also authored pieces that appear in popular press publications such as Forbes and New York Times.
Richard K. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University, and an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the coauthor (with Chester E. Finn, Jr.) of Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools? New Strategies for Academic Excellence (2000), coauthor (with Paul W. McCracken) of Taxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination (1997), and coauthor (with Lowell E. Galloway) of Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America (1993). Professor Vedder has published extensively both in academic journals, such as The Journal of Economic History and Explorations in Economic History, and in popular press outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Times, and Investor’s Business Daily. His current research interests are in American immigration, economic issues in American education, and economic history and public policy generally.
