Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University,  professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business. Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute and the North American Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics. Author of more than 50 scholarly articles and policy studies and several books: Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy, editor of Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development and co-editor of Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis. His primary fields of research are economic development, Austrian economics, and public choice.