Edward Peter Stringham is president of the American Institute for Economic Research,  Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation at Trinity College, and editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is editor of two books and author of more than seventy journal articles, book chapters, and policy studies. His work has been discussed on…

Dr. Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a presidential fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of a number of New York Times bestselling books including: Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for Immortality, the Afterlife, and Utopia, The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, Why…

Viktor J. Vanberg is professor emeritus of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and senior research fellow of the Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, which he directed from 2001 to 2010. Before moving to Freiburg in 1995 to take the chair F.A. Hayek had held between 1962 and 1969 he served as Editorial Director of the Center…

Nicolás Cachanosky, PhD, is associate professor of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver, fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, and co-editor of LIBERTAS: Segunda Época. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of the History of Economic…

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook and launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that empowers human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. His venture capital firm,…

Caitlin Long is a 22-year Wall Street veteran who has been active in bitcoin since 2012. She is currently writing a book about the intersection of Wall Street and Bitcoin. This year she helped drive the State of Wyoming’s trail-blazing blockchain legislation, passing 5 bills and recognizing utility tokens as a new form of property,…

Stefan Voigt is professor at the University of Hamburg and the director of its Institute of Law & Economics. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich). Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Ruhr-University Bochum. Voigt has been a fellow at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Berlin, in Greifswald, and…

William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, which won the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Development Cooperation Award. He is the author of three books: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014), The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts…

Carmen Pavel is a Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, and has previously held positions at the University of Virginia and University of Arizona. Her interests include liberal theory and contemporary challenges to it, ethics and public policy, environmental ethics, international justice and the authority of international…

Dr. Giovanni Patriarca studied Political Sciences at the University of Camerino (Italy) and Philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican City State). He earned the “Diploma in Islamic Studies“ at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies- P.I.S.A.I. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (History of Economic Thought) at the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum in…