Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls

ROBERT L. SCHUETTINGER is Director of Studies of The Heritage Foundation and editor of its quarterly journal, Policy Review. He was recently elected to the presidency of a national association of university professors (UPAO).

Educated in a one-room schoolhouse in Charlotte, Vermont, he later studied under Nobel Laureate F. A. Hayek at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago, under Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M. at Oxford University and at Columbia University; he has taught at The Catholic University of America, St. Andrews University and Yale University, where he was also a visiting fellow of Davenport College.

Schuettinger also served four years as a Senior Research Associate with the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. Congress. He is the editor of The Conservative Tradition in European Thought, the author of Lord Acton: Historian of Liberty, Saving Social Security and A Research Guide in Public Policy. He is also the co-author of U.S. National Security Policy in the Decade Ahead and of four other books on foreign policy.

EAMONN F. BUTLER recently was awarded the Ph.D. degree from St. Andrews University in Scotland. He has served as a senior aide in economic policy in the U.S. House of Representatives and has taught economics at Hillsdale College, Michigan. He is the co-author (with his brother, Stuart) of The British National Health Service.

DAVID I. MEISELMAN, the author of the Foreword, is Professor of Economics and Director of the Northern Virginia Graduate Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has served as a senior economist with the U.S. Congress and is the author of several books, including Varieties of Monetary Experience.