Richard Ebeling
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Richard M. Ebeling is an American libertarian
author, and was president of the Foundation for Economic Education
(FEE) from 2003 to 2008.
He has written and edited numerous books, including the three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises (Liberty Fund
). His most recent works are Political Economy, Public Policy, and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition, (Routledge, 2010), and Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom (Edward Elgar, 2003). He is the co-author and co-editor of, In Defense of Capitalism.
degree in economics from California State University
, Sacramento, his M.A.
degree in economics from Rutgers University
, and a Ph.D.
in economics from Middlesex University
in London, UK.
He served as a lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland, from 1981 to 1983, as an assistant professor at the University of Dallas
from 1984 to 1988, and then as the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College
from 1988 to 2003.
From 1989 to 2003, he also served as vice president of academic affairs for the Future of Freedom Foundation
. Ebeling was named president of Foundation for Economic Education
(FEE) in May 2003, and announced in April 2008 that he was resigning his position to return to teaching.
From 2004-2005, Ebeling served as an Adjunct Professor at The King's College in New York City. He taught mostly economics classes, including Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought.
He was the Shelby C. Davis Visiting Professor in American Economic History and Entrepreneurship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (2008–2009), and a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research
(AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (2008–2009).
Dr. Richard Ebeling is currently a professor of economics at Northwood University
in Midland, MI.He regularly teaches courses on Austrian Economic Theory, History of Economic Thought, Economics of Public Policy, Money and Banking, and Philosophy of American Enterprise.
In 2000, Ebeling was asked by Harry Browne
to seek the nomination of the Libertarian Party
for Vice-President of the United States, but turned down the offer because of work commitments.
In 1990-1991, Dr. Ebeling frequently traveled to the former Soviet Union consulting with the government of Lithuania
and with members of the Russian Parliament and the city of Moscow
on free market reform and privatization of the socialist economy. In January 1991 he witnessed first-hand the Soviet military crackdown in Vilnius, Lithuania, during which 13 people were killed. While in Moscow in August 1991 he joined the defenders of freedom and democracy at the barricades surrounding the Russian Parliament during the failed Soviet hard line Communist coup-attempt.
In October 1996, he traveled to Moscow, once again, with his wife, Anna Ebeling, this time uncovering the "lost papers" of the famous Austrian economist and leading classical liberal, Ludwig von Mises
in a formerly secret Soviet archive
. Looted by the Nazis from his Vienna apartment in 1938, Mises' papers were captured by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War. Dr. Ebeling was able to obtain photocopies of virtually the entire collection of documents numbering about 10,000 items, which had been kept in that formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow for 50 years.
Dr. Ebeling has supervised the translation and edited a large number of these papers for a three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises published by Liberty Fund
of Indianapolis. The last of the three volumes will be published in April 2012. Volumes I and II contain a large selection of articles, lectures, and previously unpublished policy papers by Ludwig von Mises covering the period before, during, and after the First World War (1906–1938), when, for most of that time, Mises made his living as a senior economic policy analyst for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Volume III contains previously unpublished lectures and monographs written between 1940 and 1945 on the theme of "The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction," dealing with the problems of economic recovery after the Second World War.
Dr. Ebeling received the “Franz Cuhel Award for Excellence in Free Market Education,” presented by the Liberalni Institute at the annual Prague Conference on Political Economy (Prague, April 2007) and the “Liberty in Theory: Lifetime Award” for contributions advancing the case for classical liberalism
, presented by Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International (London, November 2005). He has also twice been a Hayek Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies
(1975, 1977).
He lectures extensively on privatization
, monetary reform
, free trade
, and other topics in the United States
, Latin America
, Eastern Europe
and Asia
. He has been a guest lecturer at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, the Prague School of Economics in the Czech Republic, at INTI (International University) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the American National University (ANC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Libertarianism
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author, and was president of the Foundation for Economic Education
Foundation for Economic Education
The Foundation for Economic Education is one of the oldest free-market organizations established in the United States to study and advance the freedom philosophy. Murray Rothbard recognizes FEE for creating a "crucial open center" that he credits with launching the movement...
(FEE) from 2003 to 2008.
He has written and edited numerous books, including the three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises (Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It is dedicated to the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals...
). His most recent works are Political Economy, Public Policy, and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition, (Routledge, 2010), and Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom (Edward Elgar, 2003). He is the co-author and co-editor of, In Defense of Capitalism.
Life
Ebeling received his B.A.Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree in economics from California State University
California State University
The California State University is a public university system in the state of California. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the...
, Sacramento, his M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
degree in economics from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, and a Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
in economics from Middlesex University
Middlesex University
Middlesex University is a university in north London, England. It is located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex from which it takes its name. It is one of the post-1992 universities and is a member of Million+ working group...
in London, UK.
He served as a lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland, from 1981 to 1983, as an assistant professor at the University of Dallas
University of Dallas
The University of Dallas is a private, independent Catholic regional university located in Irving, Texas, established in 1956, which is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. According to U.S...
from 1984 to 1988, and then as the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, is a co-educational liberal arts college known for being the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex; its refusal of government funding; and its monthly publication, Imprimis...
from 1988 to 2003.
From 1989 to 2003, he also served as vice president of academic affairs for the Future of Freedom Foundation
Future of Freedom Foundation
The Future of Freedom Foundation is a nonprofit libertarian advocacy group based in Fairfax, Virginia. It was founded by libertarian author and former defense attorney Jacob G...
. Ebeling was named president of Foundation for Economic Education
Foundation for Economic Education
The Foundation for Economic Education is one of the oldest free-market organizations established in the United States to study and advance the freedom philosophy. Murray Rothbard recognizes FEE for creating a "crucial open center" that he credits with launching the movement...
(FEE) in May 2003, and announced in April 2008 that he was resigning his position to return to teaching.
From 2004-2005, Ebeling served as an Adjunct Professor at The King's College in New York City. He taught mostly economics classes, including Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought.
He was the Shelby C. Davis Visiting Professor in American Economic History and Entrepreneurship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (2008–2009), and a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research
American Institute for Economic Research
American Institute for Economic Research , located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is one of the oldest economic research organizations in the United States. Founded in 1933, AIER is an independent 501 organization that, according to its website, represents no fund, concentration of wealth, or...
(AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (2008–2009).
Dr. Richard Ebeling is currently a professor of economics at Northwood University
Northwood University
Northwood University is a private university with multiple locations. The school has four residential campuses: Midland, Michigan , Cedar Hill, Texas , West Palm Beach, Florida and a joint program with Hotel Institute Montreux in Montreux, Switzerland, began in 2001...
in Midland, MI.He regularly teaches courses on Austrian Economic Theory, History of Economic Thought, Economics of Public Policy, Money and Banking, and Philosophy of American Enterprise.
In 2000, Ebeling was asked by Harry Browne
Harry Browne
Harry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000....
to seek the nomination of the Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...
for Vice-President of the United States, but turned down the offer because of work commitments.
In 1990-1991, Dr. Ebeling frequently traveled to the former Soviet Union consulting with the government of Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
and with members of the Russian Parliament and the city of Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
on free market reform and privatization of the socialist economy. In January 1991 he witnessed first-hand the Soviet military crackdown in Vilnius, Lithuania, during which 13 people were killed. While in Moscow in August 1991 he joined the defenders of freedom and democracy at the barricades surrounding the Russian Parliament during the failed Soviet hard line Communist coup-attempt.
In October 1996, he traveled to Moscow, once again, with his wife, Anna Ebeling, this time uncovering the "lost papers" of the famous Austrian economist and leading classical liberal, Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...
in a formerly secret Soviet archive
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. Looted by the Nazis from his Vienna apartment in 1938, Mises' papers were captured by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War. Dr. Ebeling was able to obtain photocopies of virtually the entire collection of documents numbering about 10,000 items, which had been kept in that formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow for 50 years.
Dr. Ebeling has supervised the translation and edited a large number of these papers for a three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises published by Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It is dedicated to the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals...
of Indianapolis. The last of the three volumes will be published in April 2012. Volumes I and II contain a large selection of articles, lectures, and previously unpublished policy papers by Ludwig von Mises covering the period before, during, and after the First World War (1906–1938), when, for most of that time, Mises made his living as a senior economic policy analyst for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Volume III contains previously unpublished lectures and monographs written between 1940 and 1945 on the theme of "The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction," dealing with the problems of economic recovery after the Second World War.
Dr. Ebeling received the “Franz Cuhel Award for Excellence in Free Market Education,” presented by the Liberalni Institute at the annual Prague Conference on Political Economy (Prague, April 2007) and the “Liberty in Theory: Lifetime Award” for contributions advancing the case for classical liberalism
Classical liberalism
Classical liberalism is the philosophy committed to the ideal of limited government, constitutionalism, rule of law, due process, and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets....
, presented by Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International (London, November 2005). He has also twice been a Hayek Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies
Institute for Humane Studies
The Institute for Humane Studies is a classical liberal non-profit organization whose stated mission is “to support the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and in...
(1975, 1977).
He lectures extensively on privatization
Privatization
Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...
, monetary reform
Monetary reform
Monetary reform describes any movement or theory that proposes a different system of supplying money and financing the economy from the current system.Monetary reformers may advocate any of the following, among other proposals:...
, free trade
Free trade
Under a free trade policy, prices emerge from supply and demand, and are the sole determinant of resource allocation. 'Free' trade differs from other forms of trade policy where the allocation of goods and services among trading countries are determined by price strategies that may differ from...
, and other topics in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. He has been a guest lecturer at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, the Prague School of Economics in the Czech Republic, at INTI (International University) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the American National University (ANC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.