Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specializes in globalization and global well-being, and the political economy of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. His articles have been published in the Financial Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S.…

Leszek Balcerowicz is Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the first non-communist government in Poland after 1989 (1989-1991), and between 1997 and 2000; President of the National Bank of Poland (2001-2007). Recipient of numerous honors from universities and awards, i.e., distinguished with Poland’s highest…

Pedro Schwartz is “Rafael del Pino Professor” in the Department of Economics at Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and visiting professor at the University of Buckingham in the UK. Until September 2016 he was the President of the Mont Pelerin Society, of which he is a member since 1978. He is a Bachelor and…

Pavol Lupták He gained his BSc. at the FEI-STU in Bratislava and MSc in Computer Science at the Czech Technical University with master thesis focused on ultra-secure systems. He holds many prestigious security certifications including CISSP and CEH, he is Slovak OWASP chapter leader, co-founder of Progressbar and SOIT organizations where he is responsible for…

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, a well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, has written eighteen books and several hundred scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistics to the ethics of the bourgeois virtues. Her latest book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (University of Chicago Press, 2016), is the…

Eric Graf (Ph.D., Spanish Literature, University of Virginia, 1997) is Professor of Literature at Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), the world’s only secular libertarian university. He hosts UFM’s online course “Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha,” which is available in both English and Spanish at donquijote.ufm.edu. He also hosts UFM’s online course “The School of Salamanca,”…

Benito Arruñada is Professor of Business Organization at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain). Former President of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, his extensive interdisciplinary research lies in the conjunction of law, economics and organization and has been published in, among others, Economic Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of…

Philip Booth is Senior Academic Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Finance, Public Policy and Ethics at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. He also holds the position of Director of Research and Public Engagement at St. Mary’s. From 2002-2016, Philip was Academic and Research Director (previously, Editorial and Programme Director) at the…

Martin Krause has a PhD in Management Sciences from Universidad Católica de La Plata, Argentina, where he graduated in 1978. Since then he has been involved mainly in academic and consulting activities related to economics. In 1998 he was appointed as a Chair Professor of Economics at the Law School, University of Buenos Aires, the…

Alain Bertaud, an urbanist, is currently a senior research scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. His primary area of research is the impact of markets, transportation, and regulations on urban form. He just completed a book on urban planning and markets to be published by MIT Press in November 2018 under the…