Author Bios
Joe Cobb
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| Joe Cobb | Joe Cobb received his degrees in economics from the University of Chicago, studying with Nobel Laureates Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and F. A. Hayek. He has testified several times before the tax-writing House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee and worked as a Senate staff aide with the Finance Committee, which amends tax legislation in Congress.
Cobb is a past president of the National Association of Business Economists, National Capital Chapter. He held the prestigious John M. Olin Senior Fellowship at the Heritage Foundation (1993-96) and has also served as chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee (1992-93), as staff director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee (1990-91), as economic adviser with the State Department's U.S. Mission to the O.A.S. (1982-83), and as deputy director in the White House Office of Policy Information (1982).
Fred E. Foldvary
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| Fred Foldvary | Fred E. Foldvary teaches economics at Santa Clara University, where he is also an associate of the Civil Society Institute. His main areas of research include public finance, public choice, social ethics, and the economics of real estate. His books include Soul of Liberty, Beyond Neoclassical Economics, Public Goods and Private Communities, Dictionary of Free-Market Economics, and (co-edited) The Half-Life of Policy Rationales.
Foldvary, who earned his Ph.D. at George Mason University, also writes a column as senior editor for "The Progress Report" on line journal www.progress.org, He won the Atlas Foundation's Antony Fisher International Memorial Award in 1995 and was first-place winner in 1992 of the Community Associations Institute Research Foundation's Award of Excellence.
Ron Getty
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| Ron Getty | Ron Getty is the senior staff member of a tax attorney with his practice located in San Francisco. His background includes an electrical engineering degree and 30 years of sales, marketing and advertising with small to large corporations. A Vietnam Veteran of Chu Lai - I Corps, he brings personal perspectives on veterans and their treatment by the government. A country boy from a small farming town in the Midwest he believes in the rights of the Common Man to do what they must to protect themselves and their families.
Anthony Gregory
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| Anthony Gregory | Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician living in Berkeley, California. He earned his bachelor's degree in history at U.C. Berkeley, where he was president of the Cal Libertarians. He is a research analyst at the Independent Institute (independent.org), a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation (fff.org), and a columnist for LewRockwell.com. His own website is AnthonyGregory.com.
Tibor R. Machan
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| Tibor R. Machan | Tibor R. Machan, professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the R. C. Hoiles Professorship of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and an adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Professor Machan has authored over one hundred scholarly papers and more than thirty books.
Dr. Machan has been a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy (West Point). He edited Reason (magazine) for two years and was the editor of Reason Papers, an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for twenty-five years. He lectures in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, and Latin America on business ethics and political philosophy.
L.K. Samuels
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| Lawrence Samuels | L.K. Samuels is editor and contributing author of Facets of Liberty, an anthology of political, economic, and sociological essays (Freeland Press). L.K. Samuels won honorable mention at the East of Eden Writers Conference in 2002 for his historical novel Ferret: The Reluctant King. He is a member of the California Writers Club and was the editor of Rampart Institute's quarterly magazine in the early 1980s. He was the editor-in-chief and a columnist for the campus newspaper at Fullerton College.
Samuels is a graduate of California State University at Fullerton (1976), where he minored in journalism, and he later wrote guest columns for the Orange County Register, the third largest newspaper in California. He managed the Future of Freedom Conference series for five years in Southern California, arranging speaking engagements for Timothy Leary, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Laffer, Karl Hess, Nathaniel Brandon, and dozens of other scholars and writers.
Thomas M. Sipos
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| Thomas Sipos | Thomas M. Sipos has long believed that new technology will enable individual artists to compete on a leveler playing field against big media. Toward that end, he's written articles on self-publishing and book marketing and has taught a course on Book Promotion for Authors at UCLA Extension. To date, he's used the new print-on-demand technology to publish three books, Vampire Nation, Manhattan Sharks, and Halloween Candy, which have been favorably reviewed in such publications as Insight magazine (of The Washington Times), American Outlook (of the Hudson Institute), the Midwest Book Review, the Houston Review, and the Carolina Review. He's written about politics and film for Liberty, American Outlook, FrontpageMagazine.com and LewRockwell.com.
A graduate of NYU's film school, Sipos is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, SAG, AFTRA, and the Independent Feature Project West.
Steve Strayer
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| Steve Strayer | Steve Strayer earned his engineering degree at the University of Kansas and completed USAF Navigator and Electronic Warfare officer schools, After five years in the Air Force during the Vietnam era, he did engineering work for several different companies and completed MBA coursework at California State University - Hayward. He currently serves as a systems engineering consultant.
Steve’s passion for many years has been working one-on-one with individuals to help them help themselves to achieve personal goals in education, career advancement and personal financial management. He has also advised many immigrants in coping with the challenges of adapting to life in America.
Adam B. Summers
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| Adam Summers | Adam B. Summers is a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation. He has written extensively on privatization, government reform, law and economics, and various other political and economic topics. His articles and studies have been published by the Reason Foundation, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, American Institute for Economic Research, Maryland Public Policy Institute, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, and Ludwig von Mises Institute, among others. He holds an M.A. in economics from George Mason University and B.A. degrees in economics and political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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