Benjamin Powell
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Professor of Economics, Texas Tech UniversityDirector, The Free Market Institute at Texas Tech UniversitySenior 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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David Schmidtz Interviewed on Free to Exchange about Inequality
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Daniel Bennett Interviewed on Free To Exchange about Higher Education
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Christopher Coyne Interviewed on Free To Exchange about Foreign Intervention
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Dan D'Amico and Audrey Redford Interviewed on Free to Exchange
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Peter Leeson is Interviewed on Free To Exchange on Ordeals
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Peter Leeson Interviewed on Free to Exchange on Pirates
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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
Latest Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
David Schmidtz Interviewed on Free to Exchange about Inequality
- | 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
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
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Peter Leeson Interviewed on Free to Exchange on Pirates
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Economic Calculation and the Productivity of Investment
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Sweatshop Regulation
Tradeoffs and Welfare Judgements
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The economics of immigration
An Austrian contribution
Latest Work
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
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The Economics of Immigration: Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
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The Economic Effects of International Labor Mobility
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From Subsistence to Advanced Material Production
Austrian Development Economics
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Some Implications of Capital Heterogeneity
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Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs
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Does Immigration Impact Institutions?
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Nutritional Efficiency Wages and Unemployment
Where's the Beef?
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Markets as Processes of Moral Discovery
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Meet the Old Sweatshops: Same as the New
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Capital Theory and the Process of Inter-Temporal Coordination
The Austrian Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth