Bruce L. Benson

Bruce L. Benson
Born (1949-03-18) March 18, 1949 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconomics, Austrian School, polycentric law, private law, commercial law, criminal justice, free-market environmentalism
InstitutionFlorida State University
School or
tradition
Austrian School
Alma materUniversity of Montana, Texas A&M
InfluencesJames M. Buchanan, David D. Friedman, Avner Greif, Murray Rothbard
AwardsAdam Smith Award
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Bruce L. Benson (born March 18, 1949) is an American academic economist who is recognized as an authority[by whom?] on law and economics[citation needed] and a major exponent of anarcho-capitalist legal theory.[citation needed] He is chair of the department of economics, DeVoe L. Moore Professor, distinguished research professor and courtesy professor of law at Florida State University and 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.

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