Robert Leeson is a prolific researcher and writer of economic journals and text. He is a Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Whilst alive, Milton Friedman made Leeson his de facto literary executor by granting permission to reproduce all his books, articles, correspondence and diary entries in Milton Friedman’s Collected Writings. Leeson’s articles have appeared in a number of the world’s leading general journals such as the Economic Journal and Economica in addition to The Australian Quarterly and History of Political Economy.