Benjamin Powell

- Professor of Economics, Texas Tech University, Director, The Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
Dr. Benjamin Powell is a professor of economics at Texas Tech University. He is also the Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute. Prior to this, Ben was an associate professor of economics at Suffolk University, an assistant professor of economics at San Jose State University, and the Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute.
Dr. Powell earned his PhD from George Mason University in 2003, where he studied Austrian Economics and Public Choice Theory. While at George Mason University, Ben was a Mercatus PhD Fellow.
Latest Work
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US state-level economic freedom during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Anti-sweatshop activism and the safety-employment tradeoff: Evidence from Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
Peter Boettke & Ben Powell on Elements of Success in Graduate School
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Ethics of Doing Business with Illegal Immigrants
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The political economy of the COVID‐19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The 'Minimal' State Reconsidered
Governance on the Margin
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Cultural Baggage
Do Immigrants Import Corruption?
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
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Solving the Misesian Migration Conundrum
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression?
Latest Work
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
US state-level economic freedom during the COVID-19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Anti-sweatshop activism and the safety-employment tradeoff: Evidence from Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
Peter Boettke & Ben Powell on Elements of Success in Graduate School
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Ethics of Doing Business with Illegal Immigrants
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The political economy of the COVID‐19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The 'Minimal' State Reconsidered
Governance on the Margin
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Cultural Baggage
Do Immigrants Import Corruption?
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Solving the Misesian Migration Conundrum
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression?
Latest Work
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
US state-level economic freedom during the COVID-19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Anti-sweatshop activism and the safety-employment tradeoff: Evidence from Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Ethics of Doing Business with Illegal Immigrants
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The political economy of the COVID‐19 pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The 'Minimal' State Reconsidered
Governance on the Margin
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Cultural Baggage
Do Immigrants Import Corruption?
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Solving the Misesian Migration Conundrum
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression?
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Global Spread of Think Tanks and Economic Freedom
Latest Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
Peter Boettke & Ben Powell on Elements of Success in Graduate School
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Larry White Interviewed on Free to Exchange on the Banking System

- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Free to Exchange: Risk Mitigation and Economic Thinking on Corruption

- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Free to Exchange: Socialism in Venezuela and India

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Chris Coyne on Free to Exchange: Economics of Foreign Wars and Interventionism

- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Daniel Bennett Interviewed on Free To Exchange about Higher Education

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
David Schmidtz Interviewed on Free to Exchange about Inequality

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Christopher Coyne Interviewed on Free To Exchange about Foreign Intervention

- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Dan D'Amico and Audrey Redford Interviewed on Free to Exchange

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Peter Leeson is Interviewed on Free To Exchange on Ordeals

Latest Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Event Video Event Video
Donald Boudreaux Interviewed on Free to Exchange on Standards of Living

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Event Video Event Video
Benjamin Powell Interviews Peter Boettke on 'Free to Exchange'

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Event Video Event Video
Benjamin Powell Book Panel: Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy
