Officers of The Association of Private Enterprise Education

APEE Officers

Edward J. López , President

Benjamin Powell / Vice President

J. R. Clark, Secretary / Treasurer

Roberto Salinas Leon - Past President

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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Edward J. López is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University. He is currently serving as Vice 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

Benjamin Powell is an assistant 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
Assistant 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

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

Roberto Salinas-León is President of the Mexico Business Forum. He is an expert on trade, monetary policy, and economic liberalization in Latin America and coeditor of Money and Markets in the Americas: New Challenges for Hemispheric Integration.

Roberto Salinas León
Mexico Business Forum
Mariano Escobedo No. 748, Piso 7
Col. Anzures
CP 11590 México, DF.
Delegación Miguel Hidalgo
México, D.F.
5545-7516 or 5545-7270
Fax: ext. 265
Email: roberto@salinasleon.com

Edward Stringham is Shelby Cullom Davis Associate Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise at Trinity College, 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.

Edward Stringham - Editor
Editor – Journal of Private Enterprise
Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860-297-2562
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 Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Auburn University. From 1996-2008 he taught at Capital University holding the George H. Moor Chair. 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 is from Florida State University . Hobbies include marathons, ultra-marathons, playing vintage base ball, and mountaineering.

Robert A. Lawson
Associate Professor of Finance
Auburn University
415 W. Magnolia Ave.
Auburn, AL 36849
Telephone: 344-844-3007
Fax: 344-844-4960
Email: rlawson@auburn.edu