In Libertarianism, from A to Z, acclaimed Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron leads audiences beyond the superficial tenets of libertarian thought – “Keep your government out of my bedroom and out of my wallet,” – and examines the movement’s controversial stances on prostitution and drug use, while exploring broader issues ranging from abortion to the war on terror.
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Robert Glennon
Author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Glennon, the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, addresses America’s onrushing water shortage, and provides a provocative solution in the form of a market-based system that values water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food Editor at Grist.org, the country’s top environmental news site, Philpott’s biweekly “Victual Reality” column is the only regular food-politics column in the national media. Food & Wine named him one of “ten innovators” who will “continue to shape [America’s] culinary consciousness.”
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column “How the World Works” – a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics; and, particularly the extent to which these inextricably linked subjects are driven by, and affect, China, India and the U.S.
Edward Miguel
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, and author of Africa’s Turn?, Miguel is the Director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is an associate professor in economics, with a research focus on African economic development.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy, Bowe examines how outsourcing, subcontracting, immigration fraud, and the relentless pursuit of “everyday low prices” have created a frightening new market for slavery in America.
Raymond Fisman
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. He also writes a monthly column for Slate on economics and popular culture.
