Bruce Benson is senior fellow at the Independent Institute, the DeVoee Moore Research Professor of Economics at Florida State University and Contributor Editor of The Independent Review. Previosly, he taught at Pennsylvania State University and Montana State University. He holds a BA and MA in Economics from University of Montanta; and a PhD in Economics from the Texas A&M University. He received the 2006 Adam Smith Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) and the Liberty in Theory 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from Libertarian Alliance.