Robert Lawson & Benjamin Powell: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World

Robert Lawson holds the Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom and directs the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He earned his PhD and MS in Economics from Florida State University and his BS in Economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. He previously taught at Auburn University, Capital University, and Shawnee State University. Dr. Lawson is a founding co-author of the widely cited Economic Freedom of the World index and has written more than one hundred academic articles, book chapters, policy reports, and book reviews.

Benjamin Powell is the Executive Director of the Free Market Institute and a Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. 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. Before joining Texas Tech in January 2013, he taught at San Jose State University and Suffolk University. He’s the author or editor of six other books and has appeared regularly on television and in the popular press.