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ZOLTAN J. ACS is the Doris and McCurdy Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at
the University of Baltimore. His research interests include the role of entrepreneurship in
innovation, economic development and social and historical development. He is the author
of twenty books including Entrepreneurship, Geography and American Economic Growth,
Cambridge University Press 2005, and Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy in American
Capitalism, Small Business Economics. He is the recipient of the Swedish award for
Research on Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2000, and the editor of Small Business
Economics.
JEFFREY ASHE is the manager of community finance at Oxfam America. Prior to coming to Oxfam, Mr. Ashe founded and served as executive director of Working Capital, the largest microenterprise program in the United States. Before Working Capital, Mr. Ashe was director of the “PISCES Project,” the first worldwide investigation of programs reaching the smallest economic activities of the poor. He also served as senior associate director at ACCION International where he assisted in the dissemination of peer group lending throughout Latin America. Mr. Ashe designed, assisted, and evaluated microenterprise programs in thirty-five countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe for the World Bank, the Agency for International Development, CIDA, ODA, and many NGO clients. In addition, he developed microenterprise projects in Arkansas, North Dakota, and Canada. Before his work in the microenterprise field, Mr. Ashe directed a nation-wide rapid rural appraisal for the Costa Rican government and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador. Mr. Ashe has published extensively in the microenterprise field and is the author of several books and articles on the topic. He also teaches microfinance at Brandeis and Columbia Universities. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Sociology from Boston University. (REV. 2006)
ROBERT E. ATKINSON, JR. (ROB) is a native of Kingstree, South Carolina, and a
graduate of Washington and Lee University (History and Philosophy, 1979). After
receiving his law degree (Yale 1982), he clerked for Judge Donald Stuart Russell of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He practiced estate
planning and nonprofit organizations law with Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan’s
Washington, D.C., office before joining the faculty at the Florida State University
College of Law, where he has taught property, professional responsibility, law and
literature, and nonprofit organizations, and where he writes and lectures on
philanthropy and on the legal profession. (REV. 2013)
JACK BIRNER is a research professor for University College Maastricht and professor of economics and the philosophy of social science, department of sociology, University of Trento, Italy. He has an international business administration degree from Nijenrode, The Netherlands, a BA in economics and philosophy from Michigan State University, doctorates from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His current research interests include cultural evolution, the functioning of markets, the creation and destruction of value and complementarity in economic and social capital. An important source of inspiration: the history of economic thought. Also in preparation is a book on Hayek’s evolutionary research program. He is also a part-time wine maker. (REV. 2009)
PETER J. BOETTKE is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he is also the Director of Graduate Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. Boettke is the editor of the Review of Austrian Economics. He is also the author of numerous articles in the professional journals and has authored several books, including The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism, Why Perestroika Failed, and Calculation and Coordination. (REV. 2004)
MAX BORDERS is a 2011-2012 Robert Novak Fellow. He is writing a book on wealth creation and the rich-poor "gap." (REV. 2011)
TODD BREYFOGLE is Director of Seminars for the Aspen Institute. He earned a BA
in Classics-History-Politics from Colorado College before attending Corpus Christi
College, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), where he read Ancient and Modern History
(BA) and Patristic and Modern Theology (MSt). He earned his PhD as a Century
Fellow and Javits Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social
Thought. He is the editor of Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in
Honor of David Grene (University of Chicago Press, 1999), and has authored articles
ranging from Augustine to J. S. Bach to contemporary political theory. Before joining
the Aspen Institute, he directed the Honors Program at the University of Denver. He
has lectured at universities in the US, Canada, the UK, and India, including Oxford,
Cambridge, Princeton, Dartmouth, and the University of Chicago. He serves on
several non-profit boards and is a Senator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. (REV. 2013)
TROY CAMPLIN is an interdisciplinary scholar, the author of Diaphysics, and an
adjunct professor at the University of North Texas at Dallas. He currently lives in
Richardson, TX. (REV. 2013)
NICHOLAS CAPALDI is the Legendre-Soulé Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics
& Director of the Center for Spiritual Capital at Loyola University, New Orleans, and a
contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2013)
ART CARDEN is Assistant Professor of Economics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His research has appeared in journals like the Journal of Urban Economics, Public Choice, and Contemporary Economic Policy, and he is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Washington Examiner. (REV. 2012)
ALEJANDRO ANTONIO CHAFUEN has twenty-five years experience in the not-for-profit sector, both here and abroad. He has been president and CEO of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation since 1991. Mr. Chafuen is a member of the board of several grant seeking and grant giving foundations including the Chase Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia; the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; The Fraser Institute; the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research; and ex-officio, is a member of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He has authored several works on ethics and economics and, on issues relevant to the philanthropic sector, he has written “Holding Think Tanks to High Standards” (http://www.thegoodsteward.com/article.php3?articleID=1393) and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Traditional Catholic Perspective in Business and Religion: A Clash of Civilization? Nicholas Capaldi, ed. (Loyola University, New Orleans: 2005) (REV. 2006)
EMILY CHAMLEE-WRIGHT is Provost and Dean of the College at Washington College. She is the author of The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment (Routledge 2010), Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation, and Morality of Business, with Don Lavoie (Routledge 2000), The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development (Routledge 1997), and co-editor of The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Development (Edward Elgar 2010) with Virgil Storr. (REV. 2013)
ILARIA ANNA COLUSSI is a PhD Candidate in Public Law at the Doctoral School
of Comparative and European Legal Studies, University of Trento (Italy). She also
collaborates with the European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies
(Pavia) and is a member of the project “Biolaw” within the Department of Legal
Science of the University of Trento. Her main research interests concern the legal
aspects of synthetic biology, the relationship between genetics and the law, with a
specific attention to biobanks and forensic DNA databanks. She has published
several articles in Italian Law journals and chapters within books (such as
“Biotech Innovations and Fundamental Rights,” published by Springer, 2012).
Moreover, she has participated, as a speaker, at conferences and seminars all over
the world. She has recently carried out research periods at the Oxford Uehiro
Centre for Practical Ethics (Oxford, UK) and at the Inter-University Chair in Law
and the Human Genome, University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). (REV. 2013)
RICHARD C. CORNUELLE was a leading figure in the post-World War II libertarian movement who became one of our country’s most insightful analysts of philanthropy and civil society. In the early 1960’s, Dick’s intellectual and professional interests came to turn around a focal question: How can we restore and sustain the confidence and vitality of the American people and help them reclaim their energetic and independent traditions of mutual aid, charity, and voluntary association?
He was the author of several books and articles including: De-managing America, Healing America, and Reclaiming America. He initiated new projects to engage scholars and intellectuals in advancing our understanding the nature and operation of free institutions (the study of spontaneous orders) and in renewing our traditions of free association and independent philanthropy. (REV. 2014)
Selected Bibliography
Books
1965 Reclaiming the American Dream: The Role of Private Individuals and Voluntary Associations. New York: Random House.
1968 The New Conservative-Liberal Manifesto. With Robert H. Finch. San Diego, California: Viewpoint Books.
1975 De-Managing America: The Final Revolution. New York: Random House.
1983 Healing America: What Can Be Done About the Continuing Economic Crisis. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
1993 Reclaiming the American Dream: The Role of Private Individuals and Voluntary Associations. With a new introduction by Frank Annunziata and an afterword by the author. Reprint, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
Articles & Speeches (selected)
1950 “Up, the Welfare State!” American Affair (October 1950).
1986 “YMCA: Who Needs It?” Discovery YMCA (Fall 1986).
1991 “New work for invisible hands: A future for libertarian thought.” The Times Literary Supplement (April 5, 1991).
A longer version published as, “The Power and Poverty of Libertarian Thought.” Critical Review 6(1).
1993 “The First Libertarian Revival and the Next: Where We Were and Where We Are.” Critical Review (April 1993).
1996 “De-nationalizing Community.” Philanthropy.
2000 “Toward a New Philanthropy,” unpublished manuscript commissioned by the Earhart Foundation (3 parts).
TYLER COWEN is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and General Director of the Mercatus Center. He writes daily for www.marginalrevolution.com and can be reached at [email protected]. He is currently writing a book on American arts policy. (REV. 2005)
CHRISTOPHER COYNE is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics. (REV. 2010)
G. M. CURTIS, III is Professor of History at Hanover College. (REV. 2009)
WILLIAM C. DENNIS, now an independent consultant in philanthropy in McLean,
Virginia, has spent most of his career working at nonprofit tax-exempt institutions. He
has also gifted conservation easements on family property to a nonprofit organization. (REV. 2013)
GUS DIZEREGA is the author of Persuasion, Power and Polity: A Theory of Democratic Self-Organization (2000). He is a leading theorist of evolutionary liberalism, a liberal ethic regrounded in awareness of our relationship with the earth, with all life, and with Spirit and growing in appreciation of how self-organizing systems actually work. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and currently teaches in the Department of Government at St. Lawrence University. He is also a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy . (REV. 2010).
LAURENT DOBUZINSKIS is Associate Professor of political science at Simon Fraser University (Canada). His current research is focused on the history of economic and political thought, with special emphasis on French political economy, and he is writing a book on the moral discourse of economists. He is the author or editor of several books and articles on topics ranging from public policy to political philosophy. (REV. 2009)
T. CLARK DURANT is an adjunct professor in the Economics Department at New York University. (REV. 2010)
STEVEN D. EALY is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., an Indianapolis-based educational foundation. He previously taught at Western Carolina University and Armstrong Atlantic State University. He has published on Jurgen Habermas, bureaucratic ethics, the Federalist Papers, and Robert Penn Warren. (REV. 2008)
HANS L. EICHOLZ received his doctoral degree in American history from UCLA, where he studied with the noted historian, Professor Joyce Appleby. He is currently a Senior Fellow with Liberty Fund, Inc., an educational foundation that is based in Indianapolis, Indiana and conducts programs to explore the importance of individual liberty and personal responsibility throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has written on a range of subjects including banking history, civil society, Jefferson’s foreign policy, federalism, the meaning of equality in the early republic, and education. Most recently, he has written on the relationship of the judiciary to primary and secondary education, and contributed an essay on the nature of the Madisonian dilemma of the Arizona state constitution in a two volume collection, The Constitutionalism of American States, published by the University of Missouri Press that examines all fifty state constitutions. He is also the author of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government. (REV. 2008)
DAVID ELLERMAN works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, and in mathematics. His undergraduate degree was in philosophy at M.I.T. (‘65), and he has Masters degrees in Philosophy of Science (‘67) and in Economics (‘68), and a doctorate in Mathematics (‘71) all from Boston University. He has been in and out of teaching in economics, mathematics, accounting, computer science, and operations research departments in various universities (1970-90), founded and managed a consulting firm in East Europe (1990-2), and worked in the World Bank from 1992 to 2003 where he was an economic advisor to the Chief Economist (Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern). Now he is a visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside. He has published numerous articles in various fields (see Curriculum Vitae) and five books. (REV. 2009)
ANN C. FITZGERALD holds a master's degree in philanthropic studies from Indiana University. She is president of the consulting firm, A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates. (REV. 2011)
RICHARD P. GABRIEL received a Ph. D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He has been a researcher at Stanford University, company president and Chief Technical Officer at Lucid, Inc., vice president of Development at ParcPlace-Digitalk, a management consultant for several startups and Sun Microsystems, and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He currently is a Distinguished Engineer and principal investigator of a small research group at Sun Laboratories, researching the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems as well as development techniques for building them. He is Sun's open source expert, advising the company on community-based strategies. He is also President of the Hillside Group, a nonprofit that nurtures the software patterns community by holding conferences, publishing books, and awarding scholarships. (REV. 2005)
ROBERT F. GARNETT, JR. is Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. He serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Emergent Order and the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education and as a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. His current work examines the goals and methods of liberal learning in undergraduate economics education, the virtues of pluralism in economic inquiry, and the relationship between commercial and philanthropic forms of economic cooperation. (REV. 2011)
CLAIRE GAUDIANI PhD, publishes, speaks, and teaches about the history and economics of American philanthropy. She served for 13 years as president of Connecticut College. During her tenure at the Yale Law School, she wrote The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism (Henry Holt/Times Books). She served as clinical professor at the Heyman Center for Philanthropy at New York University and is currently affiliated with NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Gaudiani’s current directorships include The Henry Luce Foundation, MBIA Inc., and The Council for Economic Education. Elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a recipient of the Rosso Medal for Distinguished Service to Philanthropy from Indiana University, ten honorary doctorates and three distinguished teaching awards. (REV. 2011)
JACQUES T. GODBOUT is professor emeritus at the National Institute for Scientific Research (Université du Québec, Canada). During many years he has studied and published books and articles on participation and democracy, from the perspective of the relations between public and non-profit organizations and their clientele. These research projects have led him to be more and more interested in the gift relationship. He has published many books on that subject, including Ce qui circule entre nous (Paris, Seuil 2007) and, in collaboration with Alain Caillé, L’Esprit du don, translated in many languages (In English: The World of the Gift, McGill-Queens’s University Press, 1998, 2000 paperback). He is currently studying various aspects of the gift in modern societies, such as: gift exchange in the family, blood and organ donations, volunteers, philanthropy, gift and market, gift and the state. (REV. 2009)
SAMUEL GREGG is Director of Research at the Acton Institute and author, most
recently, of Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can
Avoid a European Future (2013). (REV. 2013)
STEVEN GROSBY is professor of religion at Clemson University. His recent books includeNationalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005) and, as editor, Edward Shils, A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography (Transaction, 2006). He is also a contributing editor toConversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2010)
RICHARD B. GUNDERMAN majored in biology and philosophy at Wabash College, then received his PhD (from the Committee on Social Thought) and MD as a member of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Chicago. He is currently Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and in the Honors College at Indiana University, where he is also Vice Chair of Radiology. The recipient of a record number of Trustees Teaching Awards at Indiana University and numerous prizes for scholarship and writing, he is the author of eight books and over 275 scholarly articles. Dr. Gunderman is a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2010)
CHARLES H. HAMILTON is Director of Philanthropic Advisory Services at Bessemer Trust. Previously he was Executive Director of The Clark Foundation and the J.M. Kaplan Fund and has served on the boards of the Council on Foundations and the Association for Research Nonprofit and Voluntary Associations. He has edited several books on philanthropy and on intellectual history, including articles in The Foundation Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,The American Scholar, Foundation News, and Philanthropy. (REV. 2012)
DAVID F. HARDWICK is Professor Emeritus, Pathology and Pediatrics at The
University of British Columbia; the Secretary of the International Academy of
Pathology and Associate Editor of Modern Pathology. He currently serves on the
Board of Governors of British Columbia Children’s Hospital Foundation and has
been intimately involved in the interrelationship of Government and the British
Columbia Children’s Foundation in the creation of new Children’s Hospital
facilities. He has published numerous books and papers on organizational and
administrative systems the latest being a series of papers (co-authored with Leslie
Marsh) on the relationship between the market and science, notably “Science, the
Market and Iterative Knowledge“ (Studies in Emergent Order, Vol. 5, 2012) and
"Clash of the Titans: When The Market and Science Collide" (in press, Advances
in Austrian Economics, Vol. 17, Emerald). (REV. 2013)
SHAUN HARGREAVES HEAP is a graduate of Oxford and UC Berkeley. He is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia and has held positions at Concordia University and the University of Sydney. His current research concerns the social influences on decision making and in particular involves an experimental investigation of how group membership affects people's willingness to trust each other. He has published research in this area recently in the Economic Journal and in the American Economic Review. His other area of current research is on the influence and measurement of diversity in the media. (REV. 2009)
RICHARD H. HELMHOLZ is Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service
Professor in the Law School of the University of Chicago. A legal historian, he has
specialized in the study of Roman and canon laws. His principal contribution has
been to show their relevance to the development of the Anglo-American common
law. Among his publications on the subject, the two most recent are Volume One
of the Oxford History of the Laws of England: The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s (2004), and Three Civilian Notebooks, 1580-1640
(Selden Society 2010). (REV. 2013)
CHRISTINE DUNN HENDERSON is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., a private educational foundation located in Indianapolis. She completed her undergraduate work at Smith College (A.B. in government and French studies) and received a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College. Prior to joining Liberty Fund, she taught political science at Marshall University. She is the contributing editor of Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy, and co-editor of Joseph Addison's "Cato" and Selected Essays. Her primary areas of research and publication include nineteenth-century liberalism, as well as politics and literature. (REV. 2009)
JONATHAN B. IMBER is Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College where he has taught the past thirty years and where he is presently Director of American Studies. He is author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine (Yale University Press, 1986), and most recently of Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (Princeton University Press, 2008). He has edited or co-edited seven books, including The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings of Philip Rieff (University of Chicago Press, 1990) and most recently,Markets, Morals and Religion (Transaction Publishers, 2008). He is Editor-in-Chief of Society. (REV. 2009)
HEATHER WOOD ION is a chief executive and cultural anthropologist who holds dual degrees from Oxford University and specializes in turning around troubled organizations. Her doctoral research on social and cultural recovery from disasters has been applied to assist communities and corporations in trouble all over the world. She has turned around communities locked in adversarial paralysis, social service agencies, corporations that have lost their mission, and start-ups unable to cope with growth. For the last seven years of his life, Jonas Salk, MD, relied on Heather Ion as his editor, sounding board and collaborator on issues of international health policy, and in establishing the science of hope. Dr. Ion’s book, Thirdclass Ticket, has been translated into Italian, Hindi, Japanese, and Chinese, and is currently being made into a feature film. Another book, with Saul Levine MD, Against Terrible Odds, applies her knowledge of social and cultural recovery to the profound issues of individual resilience. Dr. Ion has served on numerous boards and national initiatives, including The Valeo Initiative, in collaboration with the Center for Healthcare Improvement and the Veterans’ Health Administration. She currently serves with Athena Charitable Trust, is Founder of the nonprofit Epidemic of Health and is a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2010)
WILLIAM J. JACKSON is Professor Emeritus at IUPUI, where he taught courses in Comparative Religion in the Department of Religious Studies for 25 years. He served as the first Lake Scholar at the Lake Family Institute on Faith and Giving, Philanthropic Studies Center, IUPUI, and published TheWisdom of Generosity: A Reader in American Philanthropy (2008). He has published several books about South Indian religious culture, and a book entitled Heaven's Fractal Net: Retrieving Lost Visions in the Humanities (2008), about fractal-like geometrical patterns found in the world's cultures. He is currently working on a book exploring the "cultural DNA of America," the deep stories, symbols, emblems, values and aspirations which have been formative and influential in American life. (REV. 2010)
S. T. KARNICK is director of research for The Heartland Institute (http://www.heartland.org) and editor of The American Culture (http://culture.stkarnick.com). (REV. 2010)
AMY A. KASS is Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago (on leave); Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Senior Fellow, The Project on Civic Reflection, a Lilly Endowment, Inc. project based at Valparaiso University. (REV. 2005)
DWIGHT R. LEE received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. He has held tenured positions at the University of Colorado, Virginia Tech University, George Mason University and the University of Georgia. He currently holds the William J. O’Neil Chair in Global Markets and Freedom in the Edwin Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. (REV. 2011)
GEORGE LEEF is the Director of Research at the John W. Pope Center for Higher
Education Policy. He holds a BA from Carroll University in Wisconsin and a JD from
Duke University. He was on the faculty of Northwood University in Midland, Michigan
from 1980 through 1989 teaching economics, business law, and logic and is the author
of Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement (2005). (REV. 2013)
PAUL LEWIS was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics, and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Emmanuel and Selwyn Colleges, before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Economics at King’s College, University of London. His research interests include: the Austrian school of economics; applied microeconomics; and the history and methodology of economics. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, USA, a retained supervisor in economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. (REV. 2009)
JOSEPH ISAAC LIFSHITZ is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy,
Political Theory, and Religion. He received his PhD in Jewish Thought from Tel Aviv
University. In his study of Jewish philosophy and history, his main focus is on the
philosophy and history of Ashkenaz in the high Middle-Ages. His book Judaism,
Law and the Free Market, was published by Acton Institute on May, 2012. (REV. 2013)
GORDON LLOYD earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and political science at McGill University. He completed all coursework toward a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago before receiving his master’s and PhD degrees in government at Claremont Graduate School. The co-author of three books on the American founding and author of two forthcoming publications on political economy, he also has numerous articles and book reviews to his credit. His areas of research span the California constitution, common law, the New Deal, slavery and the Supreme Court, and the relationship between politics and economics. (REV. 2009)
ROGER A. LOHMANN is Professor of Social Work and Benedum Distinguished Scholar at West Virginia University. He was Editor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership from 2000-2008. He is the author of numerous journal articles, and author of three books: Breaking Even: Financial Management in Human Services; The Commons: New Perspectives on Nonprofit Organization, Voluntary Action and Philanthropy; and Social Administration (co-authored with Nancy Lohmann). He is also co-editor (with Nancy Lohmann) of Rural Social Work Practice and a forthcoming volume on public deliberation and sustained dialogue (co-edited with Jon Van Til). He was a pioneer of online intellectural discussion lists, founding ARNOVA-L (in 1990) and more than 30 other lists. He is the founder and chair of the board of the Nova Institute at West Virginia University and is currently engaged in developing an online graduate certificate program in nonprofit management and third sector studies and an update on his previous theoretical work on the commons theory of associations. (REV. 2009)
HERBERT LONDON is president of Hudson Institute and John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University. He is author of the recently published book Decade of Denial (Lexington Books). (REV. 2005)
LESLIE MARSH is a Research Associate in the Dean’s Office (Medical School) at The
University of British Columbia and was previously Assistant Director of The New
England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies. His work is primarily
located at the interface of mind, sociality and liberality with an active interest in the
philanthropic world. He is the founder of the journal EPISTEME: Journal of Individual
and Social Epistemology (Cambridge); is currently working on a monograph Stigmergic
Cognition: Socializing Cognition and “Cognitivizing” Sociality (Springer); is the coeditor
of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott (forthcoming, Penn State); and is the
editor of Hayek in Mind: Hayek's Philosophical Psychology. (REV. 2013)
ADAM G. MARTIN is a lecturer in political economy at King’s College, London.
After receiving his PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 2009, he
was a post-doctoral fellow at the Development Research Institute at New York
University. He can be reached at [email protected] and more information
can be found on his website, adamgmartin.com. (REV. 2013)
JOHN MCCLAUGHRY founded the Institute for Liberty and Community in 1973. He has served as a member of the Vermont House and Senate, and for 46 years as the town meeting Moderator of the town of Kirby. (REV.2014)
GEORGE McCULLY served for twenty years as professor of European intellectual and cultural history, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and for twenty-five years as a professional philanthropist—fundraiser, strategic planner, executive director, trustee, and advisor to charities, foundations, families and individual donors. In 1997 he created the highly respected and influential Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy, to promote charitable giving and strengthen the culture of philanthropy through donoreducation. His book, Philanthropy Reconsidered (2008), presents a comprehensive overview of the "vocabulary, conceptualization, and rhetoric" of philanthropy from the ancient coinage of the term in Prometheus Bound, to its essential role informing the American Revolution and Constitution, to the paradigm-shift transforming philanthropy today. His latest work is the Massachusetts Philanthropic Directory—an on-line, systematically taxonomized, analytical, Directory to all the philanthropic charities of (initially) Massachusetts, which comprise only 1/7th of the state's "nonprofits". This dramatically innovative Directory system will be extended nationwide over the next two years. He is also a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2010)
EUGENE MILLER is Professor Emeritus of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He has written extensively on the history of political philosophy and American political thought. He approaches issues of philanthropy in light of his broader interests in moral philosophy, political epistemology, and technology and politics. He is editor of the Liberty Fund edition of David Hume's Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. (REV. 2004)
CLAIRE MORGAN is director of the Social Change Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary concern is to promote innovative, interdisciplinary work that integrates theory and practice to promote greater freedom and prosperity. Before joining Mercatus, Claire was a fellow at the Liberty Fund in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was managing editor of the PEGS Journal, The Good Society. She has spent time as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and at the Institute for Humane Studies in Arlington, Virginia. She also holds degrees in Applied Philosophy (Bowling Green State University), Political Theory (London School of Economics), and Politics (London Guildhall University). (REV. 2006)
LAURIE MORROW, Ph.D., a former college professor and talk radio show host, is the President of Morrow Public Relations in Montpelier, Vermont, and a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2009)
JENNIFER ROBACK MORSE is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine and the National Catholic Register, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a senior research scholar of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. She taught economics for fifteen years at Yale and George Mason University and is author of the book Love and Economics. (REV. 2005)
JOHN E. MURRAY is Joseph R. Hyde III Professor of Political Economy at Rhodes
College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has written on public and private approaches
to poverty, poor relief, and income maintenance in a variety of places and times.
His books include Origins of American Health Insurance (Yale University Press,
2007), Children Bound to Labor (Cornell University Press, 2009), and The
Charleston Orphan House (University of Chicago Press, 2013). (REV. 2013)
JAMES R. OTTESON received his BA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD from the University of Chicago. His books include Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life (Cambridge, 2002) and Actual Ethics (Cambridge, 2006), the latter of which won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award. His most recent book is Adam Smith, published by Continuum in 2011, and he is now at work on a book for Cambridge University Press entitled The End of Socialism. He has taught formerly at Georgetown University and at the University of Alabama, and is currently professor of philosophy and economics, and chair of philosophy, at Yeshiva University in New York. (REV. 2011)
THOMAS K. PARK received a Masters in Economics and a Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983) and teaches in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His environmental and urban research has been funded by NSF. A current project is an historical study of credit in the Fertile Crescent and the Mediterranean. (REV. 2010)
DAVID L. PRYCHITKO is a professor of economics at Northern Michigan University. He has published widely in economics, and is the co-author (with Paul Heyne and Peter Boettke) of The Economic Way of Thinking, an introductory textbook published by Prentice Hall. (REV. 2009)
KEVIN QUINN is Associate Professor of Economics at Bowling Green State University. His research interests are in economic philosophy, especially the nature of rationality, and in the history of economic thought. (REV. 2009)
ROBIN ROGERS is an associate professor of sociology at the City University of
New York and has served as a Congressional fellow on public policy. (REV. 2013)
WILLIAM A. SCHAMBRA is the director of the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. He has written extensively on the Constitution, the theory and practice of civic revitalization, and civil society in various publications and is the editor of several volumes. (REV. 2014)
PAUL G. SCHERVISH is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (CWP) at Boston College, and National Research Fellow at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, and to the John Templeton Foundation. He was appointed a Fulbright Scholar for the 2000-2001 academic year at University College Cork in the area of research on philanthropy. For the 1999-2000 academic year he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. He has been selected five times to the NonProfit Times annual “Power and Influence Top 50,” a list which acknowledges the most effective leaders in the non-profit world. He received a bachelor's degree in classical and comparative literature from the University of Detroit, a Masters in sociology from Northwestern University, a Masters of Divinity Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. With Keith Whitaker he is the author of Wealth and the Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate Purpose (Indiana University Press, January 2010). (REV. 2009)
JACK SOMMER is Knight Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Previously he taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Texas at Dallas. His past public service includes science policy analysis at NSF and Senior Advisor for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. His special expertise is in science policy and he is a contributing editor to Conversations on Philanthropy. (REV. 2013)
MICHAEL STRONG is currently developing special development regions based on common law in developing nations in order to attract investment and create jobs and broad-based prosperity. For ten years he led FLOW, a non-profit devoted to the creation of entrepreneurial solutions to world problems. Under Michael's leadership, FLOW spun off four "offspring" organizations: Conscious Capitalism, Peace through Commerce, Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs, and Radical Social Entrepreneurs (which Michael now leads). He is the lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, co-authored with John Mackey, Mohammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto, Don Beck, and others. He is also the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice, and the founder of innovative Socratic, Montessori, and Paideia schools and programs in Alaska, Florida, California, Texas, and New Mexico. Moreno Valley High School, the charter school for which Michael was the founding principal, was ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S. on the Washington Post's 2006 Challenge Index.(REV. 2013)
RICHARD STROUP is professor of economics and interim department head at Montana State University and a senior associate of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). During the Reagan administration, Stroup served as the director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Department of Interior. He is a widely published author and speaker on economics, including natural resources and environmental issues. His books include the recent primer on economics, Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment, and a leading economics principles textbook, co-authored with James D. Gwartney, Economics: Private and Public Choice, now in its tenth edition. (REV. 2004)
JOHN T. THOMAS, Esq., J.D. Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1990, is health
care executive and a tax lawyer by training and practice. He has served as in-house
counsel to both the Sisters of Mercy Health System and Baylor Health Care System
and has represented other nonprofit health care organizations. While serving as
general counsel for Baylor, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee on May 23, 2005, about the structure of the Texas
charity care law and the differences between nonprofit hospitals and taxable
hospitals in their service to the community. (REV. 2013)
FREDERICK TURNER is the Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of thirty books of poetry, criticism, translations, and fiction, including The New World: An Epic Poem; Rebirth of Value; Genesis: an Epic Poem; The Culture of Hope; Beauty: the Value of Values; Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics, and recently Paradise, Two Ghost Poems, and Natural Religion. (REV 2012)
J.D. VON PISCHKE is president of Frontier Finance International, a Washington-based company that is affiliated with IPC and ProCredit Holding. IPC is a consulting firm that is in the forefront of starting microfinance banks that operate on a commercial basis. ProCredit Holding is the owner of nineteen microfinance banks in as many countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa. Dr. Von Pischke worked in project and policy positions in the World Bank for twenty years and has produced eight books, as editor or author, and many articles on financial sector development, with special emphasis on the small end of the market. He earned his Ph.D. at Glasgow University in Scotland. (REV. 2006)
TONY WOODLIEF is a writer who lives in Arlington, Virginia. (REV. 2012)
MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER is a senior fellow at the Capital Research Center and a contributing editor to Philanthropy. (REV. 2009)