Officers of The Association of Private Enterprise Education

APEE Officers

Benjamin Powell, President

Bradley Hobbs, Vice-President

Edward J. López, Past-President

J. R. Clark, Secretary / Treasurer

Edward Stringham, Editor of The Journal of Private Enterprise

Gerald Gunderson, Associate Editor of The Journal of Private Enterprise

Robert A. Lawson, Webmaster

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Benjamin Powell is an associate professor of economics at Suffolk University , a senior economist with the Beacon Hill Institute, and a research fellow with the Independent Institute. He earned his B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell , and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University .

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. His primary fields of research are economic development, Austrian economics, public choice, and housing economics. Dr. Powell's research findings have been reported in more than 100 popular press outlets including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times . He also writes frequently for the popular press. His popular writing has appeared in the Investor's Business Daily , the Financial Times ( London ), the Christian Science Monitor , and many regional outlets. He has appeared on numerous regional and national radio and television shows including, CNN , MSNBC , Showtime , and National Public Radio .

Benjamin Powell
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Pl.
Boston MA 02114 -4280
Phone: 617-573-8023
Fax: 617-994-4216
Email: bpowell@suffolk.edu

Bradley K. Hobbs is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise at Florida Gulf Coast University. He earned his undergraduate degree in history and his Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University (1991). His interests are wide in range encompassing property rights, economic freedom, economics growth, financial markets, economic and intellectual history, the philosophical foundations of markets, and teaching methodologies. He has published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, Journal of Real Estate Research, Laissez-Faire, Journal of Executive Education, Journal of Private Enterprise, Financial Practice and Education, Research in Finance, among others. Current research projects include a stream of literature on relationships between economic freedom, economic growth, entrepreneurial behavior and cognitive abilities; changes in historical living standards; and libertarian themes in novels.

Professor Hobbs has been active in undergraduate research and serves as the founding Faculty Advisor for an undergraduate research journal sponsored by Students for Liberty: the Journal of Liberty and Society. He is a Research Fellow at the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee, Florida. Professor Hobbs is also a Member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Bradley Hobbs – Vice President
BB&T Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd. South
Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565
239-590-7162
E-Mail: bhobbs@fgcu.edu

Edward J. López is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University. He is currently serving as Past-President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and as Co-Editor of the Journal of Economics and Finance Education . His main areas of research are in public choice and law & economics; he is the editor of a book of original essays titled The Pursuit of Justice: Law and Economics of Legal Systems (forthcoming in 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan). Professor López has published over three dozen scholarly articles and book chapters in the areas of takings, campaign finance, entrepreneurship, congressional voting, and political institutions in journals such as the Review of Law & Economics, Public Choice , the Southern Economic Journal , the Independent Review , and others. He was previously a visiting scholar at Liberty Fund, Inc., and a staff economist on the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He earned a B.S. in economics from Texas A&M University and Ph.D in economics at George Mason University in 1997.

Edward López
San Jose State University
Department of Economics
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0114
Phone: 408-924-5407
Fax: 408-924-5406
Email: edward.lopez@sjsu.edu

J.R, Clark J.R. Clark earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute under the Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. He holds the Probasco Chair at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the author of numerous books and academic articles published in the United States, Japan, Canada, and Russia. Prior to coming to UTC, Clark was with the Joint Council on Economic Education in New York, chaired a large economics department in New Jersey, held the Hendrix Chair, and was a research fellow at Princeton University. Dr. Clark's consulting experience includes Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, and publishing firms. He has performed litigation support for law firms in personal injury, wrongful death, business evaluations and matrimonial cases. He has received significant grants in entrepreneurship from the J. Howard Pew Freedom Foundation Trust, is past President of the Association of Private Enterprise, and sits on the boards of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund and William B. Cockroft Foundation.

J. R. Clark
Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
313 Fletcher Hall, Dept. 6106
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
Telephone: 423-425-4118
Fax: 423-425-5218
Email: J-Clark@utc.edu

Edward Stringham is the Hackley Endowed Chair for Capitalism and Free Enterprise Studies in the School of Business and Economics at Fayetteville State University, former president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of two dozen articles in refereed journals including the Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance, and Journal of Labor Research.

Stringham has been discussed on more than 100 broadcast stations including CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox, Headline News, NPR, and MTV and in hundreds of newspapers worldwide including 14 of the 20 highest circulating newspapers in the United States and the highest circulating English language newspaper in the world.

Stringham earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2002, and has won the Templeton Culture of Enteprise Best Article Award, Paper of the Year Award from the Association of Private Enterprise, Best Article Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Second Place in the Independent Institute Garvey Contest, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Liberalni Institut and the Prague School of Economics.

Prof. Edward Peter Stringham
Hackley Endowed Chair for Capitalism and Free Enterprise Studies
School of Business and Economics
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301
Telephone: 910-672-1837
Email: edward.stringham@gmail.com

Dr. Gerald Gunderson is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, positions he assumed in 1982. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, 1967, with a thesis in economic history supervised by Douglass North, Nobel Laureate. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mount Holyoke College and North Carolina State University. Professor Gunderson has published numerous academic papers, including studies of the cause of the American Civil War, the demise of the Roman Empire, and models of entrepreneurship. He also has authored columns in more than twenty newspapers in the U.S., including The Wall Street Journal. He has worked with national professional associations concerning entrepreneurship, economic and business history, private enterprise systems, economic education, and public policies. He has served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and as the long-time Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He was a founding member and is a member of the Executive Board as well as the director of the Academic Advisory Board for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies. He received the Freedom Foundation's award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education in 1980. He was appointed by the Governor to the Educational Improvement Panel to develop solutions to poor public schooling in Connecticut. Dr. Gunderson is the author of The New Economic History of America (McGraw-Hill, 1974) and The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States (E.P. Dutton, 1989) which Peter Drucker, the mentor of modern management, described as "brilliant". Currently he is completing a book analyzing the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy, Stealthy Revolutionaries: Worldwide, Unstoppable, Transmuting Entrepreneurship.

Gerald Gunderson
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106-3100
Telephone: 860-297-2395
Fax: 860-297-5111
Email: Gerald.Gunderson@mail.trincoll.edu

About APEE

Dr. Robert Lawson is the Jerome M. Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom at SMU. He previously taught at Auburn University, Capital University, and Shawnee State University. Lawson is co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World annual report which provides an economic freedom index for over 140 countries. Professional publications appear in journals such as Public Choice, Cato Journal, Kyklos, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and European Journal of Political Economy. Lawson is a past- president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and member of the Mont Pelerin Society . He blogs regularly for divisionoflabour.com .His B.S. in economics is from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics are from Florida State University . Hobbies include marathons, ultra-marathons, playing vintage base ball, and mountaineering.

Robert A. Lawson - Webmaster
Jerome M. Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom
O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom
Cox School of Business
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750333
Dallas, TX 75275
Telephone: 614-668-6128
Email: robert.a.lawson@gmail.com