The Mises Institute announces 11 new Associated Scholars rooted in the Misesian tradition. Associated Scholars are a vital part of our network, growing the Austrian intellectual tradition through independent writing, teaching, and speaking in their professional careers and at their academic institutions. Many have come through our programs, others are self-taught, but all are making an impact through their own successes. Hilary Clinton was right about one thing: it does take a village. We are proud to be associated with them.
Christopher J. Calton
Dr. Calton received his PhD in history from the University of Florida, and his dissertation was on the early history of corporations in America. He is currently the Research Fellow in Housing and Homelessness at the Independent Institute. His popular articles have appeared in the Mises Wire, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, The Washington Times, the Miami Herald, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications. He is the creator of the popular history podcast Historical Controversies, which began during his time as Mises Institute research fellow.
Fernando Monteiro D’Andrea
Dr. D’Andrea received his PhD in business administration focused on entrepreneurship from Oklahoma State University, where Mises Institute Senior Fellow Per Bylund served as his advisor. He also holds a master’s in management engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy and is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute Brasil. A former Mises research fellow, Fernando has lectured on entrepreneurship throughout North America, South America, and Europe and has published in a number of strategic management journals.
Edward W. Fuller
Mr. Fuller has established himself as one of the leading contemporary historians on John Maynard Keynes, known for his well-cited revisionist historical paper “Was Keynes a Socialist?,” which was published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics. He received his MBA from the Leavey School of Business and is the author or editor of six books on economics, including A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle and Reinterpreting Mr. Keynes: The IS-LM Enigma Revisited. He also compiled Rothbard A to Z, a compendium of Rothbard’s quotes.
Peter Jacobsen
Dr. Jacobsen is the Otto Fellow at the University of Kansas. His research is at the intersection of entrepreneurship, development economics, and population economics. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University. He is the 2017 winner of the Israel M. Kirzner Award for an Outstanding Dissertation from George Mason University and a winner of the Class of 1966 Award for Excellence in Teaching from Ottawa University. He attended the Rothbard Graduate Seminar in 2018.
Karras Lambert
Dr. Lambert received his PhD in economics from George Mason University and holds a master’s in finance from Peking University HSBC Business School. A former Mises Institute research fellow, Lambert is currently an assistant professor at Temple University in Japan. His 2023 article “Economic Calculation in Light of Advances in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence,” coauthored with Mises Institute Fellow Tate Fegley and published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, has become one of the most cited Austrian papers on the topic.
Gordon Miller
Dr. Miller received his PhD in entrepreneurship from Baylor University under the guidance of Mises Institute Senior Fellow Peter Klein. A former Mises Institute research fellow, he currently serves as an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Troy University. His research has focused on the economics of video games and other digital networks, including crowdfunding.
Paweł Nowakowski
A Mises Institute research fellow in 2016, Dr. Nowakowski is an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław, where he also earned his PhD in political philosophy. He is part of the thriving network of Austro-libertarian scholars emerging in Poland. His research focuses on libertarian ethics and its relationship to human dignity, and on political culture and political emotions. He has also translated books in the Austrian tradition into Polish.
George D. R. Pickering
While completing his PhD in economic history at the University of Oxford, Dr. Pickering was a research fellow at the Mises Institute. Currently employed at one of the leading policy centers in England, his academic research includes nineteenth-century British monetary history, and the history of economic methodology. He has also authored a number of articles on the Mises Wire and in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
Larsen Plyler
Dr. Plyler received his PhD in history from Mississippi State University in 2019 and has taught at the high school, college, and graduate school levels. An avid student of Rothbard’s work in American history, Dr. Plyler is working with the Mises Academy team to develop a history curriculum that will be launching in the future, an exciting contribution to our virtual learning platform.
Daniel Sánchez-Piñol
Dr. Sánchez-Piñol is a postdoctoral research assistant to Claudia R. Williamson, the Scott L. Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He earned his PhD in agricultural and applied economics from Texas Tech University and an MA in Austrian economics from Rey Juan Carlos University. A Mises Institute research fellow in 2016, his research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Constitutional Political Economy, and the Journal of Private Enterprise.
Joseph Solis-Mullen
Mr. Solis-Mullen holds master’s degrees in economics and political science from the University of Missouri and the University of Illinois. A prolific author, his books include The Fake China Threat, The National Debt and You, and Classical Liberalism. His popular articles can be found on the Mises Wire, Antiwar.com, and the website of the Libertarian Institute, where he also serves as the Ralph Raico Fellow. He teaches history and politics at Spring Arbor University and economics at Jackson College.
