Nationality United States Role Economist | Name Bruce Benson | |
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Born March 18, 1949 (age 75) ( 1949-03-18 ) Alma mater University of Montana, Texas A&M Books The Enterprise of Law, To Serve and Protect Influenced Peter Leeson, Edward Stringham Influenced by James M. Buchanan, David D. Friedman, Avner Greif, Murray Rothbard Fields Economics, Private law, Commercial law, Criminal justice | ||
School or tradition Austrian School |
Dr bruce l benson vigilantes in the american west
Bruce L. Benson (born March 18, 1949) is chair of the Department of Economics, DeVoe L. Moore Professor, Distinguished Research Professor and courtesy Professor of Law at Florida State University. He is an American academic economist who is recognized as an authority on law and economics and a major exponent of anarcho-capitalist legal theory. He is the recipient of the 2006 Adam Smith Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and has recently been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the Czech Republic, Visiting Professor at the University de Paris Pantheonon Assas, a Property-and-Environment-Research-Center Julian Simon Fellow, and Visiting Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Benson received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1978.
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- Dr bruce l benson vigilantes in the american west
- Episode 88 the enterprise of law justice without the state with bruce l benson
- Publications
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Episode 88 the enterprise of law justice without the state with bruce l benson
Publications
Benson is the author of four books, co-editor of another, author of over 125 peer-reviewed academic articles, author of over 65 chapters in edited books and has presented numerous scholarly papers. He has written some of the leading libertarian or anarchist law and economics perspectives on regulation, criminalization, commercial law, and Native American law (see also: private law, polycentric law). His books include: