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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The 'Minimal' State Reconsidered
Governance on the Margin
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Cultural Baggage
Do Immigrants Import Corruption?
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Solving the Misesian Migration Conundrum
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Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression?
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Free to Exchange: Risk Mitigation and Economic Thinking on Corruption
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Larry White Interviewed on Free to Exchange on the Banking System
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Free to Exchange: Socialism in Venezuela and India
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Chris Coyne on Free to Exchange: Economics of Foreign Wars and Interventionism
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The Global Spread of Think Tanks and Economic Freedom
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Does mass immigration destroy institutions?
1990s Israel as a natural experiment
Latest Work
- | 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?
- | 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
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Global Spread of Think Tanks and Economic Freedom
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Does mass immigration destroy institutions?
1990s Israel as a natural experiment
Latest Work
- | 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
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Does mass immigration destroy institutions?
1990s Israel as a natural experiment
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Economic Calculation and the Productivity of Investment
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Sweatshop Regulation
Tradeoffs and Welfare Judgements
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Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs
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The economics of immigration
An Austrian contribution
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The U.S. Economy: The New Normal and an Unsustainable Future
Latest Work
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Peter Leeson Interviewed on Free to Exchange on Pirates
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Benjamin Powell Discusses 'Out of Poverty' on Fox Business Network
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Benjamin Powell Discusses the Business of Charity on Stossel
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Benjamin Powell Discusses Government Shutdown on Stossel
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