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Contributors
Michael Adamson: is a historical consultant and lecturer throughout the Cal-State University system. He received his B.B.A. in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, his M.B.A. from Arizona State University and his Ph.D. in history from UC Santa Barbara. His essays have appeared in American Sociological Review, Business History Review, Diplomatic History, Financial History Review, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Journal of Urban History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and several scholarly collections. He is the author, most recently, of A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies, published in January 2013 by Purdue University Press. His ongoing scholarly research focuses on business and urban history and natural resource development in the American West.
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Amar Aly (co-editor): is an aspiring Alternative Finance analyst. His intellectual interests run the gamut from anthropology, philosophy and comparative civilizations to institutions and private property rights, monetary theory, transportation, aerospace, and the future at large. He received his BS in Economics and Political Science and BA in International Affairs from Florida State University in 2010, where he also minored in Anthropology and Philosophy. When not working, reading, or working out, he is working on checking off his bucket list.
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Brandon Christensen (co-editor): received his B.A. in cultural anthropology from UCLA in 2013, where he also minored in Middle Eastern and African studies. He was born in the middle of Utah, raised in a small Northern California town, and spent two years attending a community college in Santa Cruz before moving to Los Angeles. Hippie girls are great. He has also spent time (approx 3 months) bumming around a small segment of Mediterranean Europe and chillin’ in a small Ashanti village in central Ghana (again, for approx 3 months). He is interested in pre-colonial polities, property rights and international trade.
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Jacques Delacroix: is an essayist and a story-teller. He maintains the rational conservative and libertarian-leaning blog Facts Matter. A sociologist by training, in an earlier life, he taught and performed empirical research in two areas: the sociology of economic development and organizational theory. Although he was born and reared in France, Delacroix received all his higher education in the US, at a community college first and then, almost all at Stanford University. He writes occasionally in French on his blog. In addition to the scholarly articles, the essays, and the stories he has published, Delacroix has two small unimportant co-authored books, one in English, one in French. His current vita is linked to his blog.
Delacroix lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife, the orientalist painter Krishna Delacroix. He paints himself, mostly steeples, minarets, towers, lighthouses, menhirs (raised stones), and other vertical objects. His paintings are not good enough to sell but they are good enough to please the friends. The sea and boats are his main sources of inspiration. He sails on the Pacific ocean, he swims in it, he fishes in it (or tries to).
Delacroix describes himself as the best picker he has ever met. The word refers to flea market and garage sales endeavors. His writing reflects the same disorderly but purposeful strategy employed in successful flea market and garage sales activities. He is currently looking for outlets for his memoirs: I Used to Be French: An Immature Autobiography.
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Fred Foldvary (co-editor): received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. He has taught economics at several universities around the world, and was last seen teaching at Santa Clara University’s business school and at San Jose State University (both in the Silicon Valley). He is the author of several books, most notably The Soul of Liberty and Public Goods and Private Communities. His most recent book is The Science of Economics. He has also edited and contributed to Beyond Neoclassical Economics and, with Dan Klein, The Half-Life of Policy Rationales. His areas of research include public finance, governance, ethical philosophy and land economics.
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Nick Fong: is currently a third year undergraduate at the University of California, Merced, pursuing a B.A. in economics and a minor in management. He first came to the ideas of liberty after reading The Road to Serfdom, a gift from his older brother on his 18th birthday. After Hayek, Nick went on to study Frederic Bastiat, Lord Acton, and Milton Friedman. If he had to define himself within a certain sect of libertarianism, it would be somewhere between a classical liberal and a Chicago school economist.
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Warren Gibson: is a professional engineer who co-founded CSA Engineering, Inc. in 1982. After an early retirement, he took an M.A. in economics and has been teaching that subject at San Jose State University for the past several years. He is also a lecturer (emeritus) in engineering at Santa Clara University and the math reader for Econ Journal Watch.
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Ryan Gorham: Floridian, educated at the Florida State University in Economics and Political Science. Working to advance ideas in a substantive way every day.
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Evgeniy Grigorjev: received his M.S. in engineering from Baltiysky State Technical University in 2010 where he specialized in automatisation. He likes to study the Norsk language and everything that can be called “foreign spirit”: the way foreign people live, think, speak and interact with each other. In addition to devoting his spare time to studying all things foreign, Evgeniy likes to read, write, blog and learn how to play on different musical instruments, but his true passion is the “spirit of other world.” He is very interested in everything that happens in other countries. He currently resides in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Jeffrey Rogers Hummel: is the author of Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War. He teaches both economics and history, and before joining the SJSU economics faculty in the fall of 2002, lectured as an adjunct at Golden Gate University and Santa Clara University. He served in the U.S. Army as a tank platoon leader during the early seventies, was Publications Director for the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA, in the late eighties, and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, for the 2001-2002 academic year.
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Henry Moore (aka Hank): 22-year-old non-academic blogger and liberty hacktivist. Born, raised, and currently residing in the great state of Montana, he does what he can to keep things going. Having good family, friends and a church certainly help. He’s done everything from construction to sales to press releases. In his spare time, apart from blogging, Hank is an avid collector (heck, he reads them too, sometimes) of non-fiction books. And, when he can get away from a screen or a paperback or a notebook, is frequently seen in the great outdoors. Always scheming, never getting anything done. He prefers medium-rare steak, deontological ethics and praxeology.
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Guillermo Pineda: is a double degree M.A., M.Sc. Global Studies candidate at Leipzig University and Roskilde University. He founded the Center for the Study of Capitalism in Guatemala work for which he was nominated as Power 30 under 30 leader in 2012. He has studied and promoted Objectivist philosophy for a decade. Born in Guatemala, Pineda has been an active representative of the ideas of Liberty, individual rights, and social cooperation in the region. As well, Pineda has been an active leader of the fight for government transparency, anti-corruption and the elimination of government privileges.
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Andrew Roth was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area through the third grade and on the periphery of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country for the remainder of his childhood. He graduated from Dickinson College in 2006 with a BS in geology and history. Since graduation, he has bounced back and forth, sometimes too often, between the East and West Coasts, partly for work and partly to stay in touch with relatives and friends who are ensconced at opposite ends of the country. He has worked as a seasonal amusement park flunky, an environmental consultant, a post-hurricane reconstruction volunteer, and, most recently, as the de facto assistant manager of a noncommercial vineyard and winery.
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