Edward Peter Stringham (born January 18, 1975) is an

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American economist, former President of the

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in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (until May 2021), and the Davis Professor of Economic Innovation at

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Education

Stringham received a B.A. in economics from

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and his Ph.D. from

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. His dissertation was titled "Essays on Self-Policing in Financial Markets".

Career

He was associate professor at

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from 2002 to 2008, the F.A. Hayek Endowed visiting professor at

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in 2008, and Shelby Cullom Davis visiting associate professor at Trinity College from 2008 to 2010. He has also held faculty positions at Fayetteville State University and

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. He has been the editor of the '' Journal of Private Enterprise'' since 2006. Additionally, he served as the President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education from 2006 to 2007. He has edited ''Anarchy, State and Public Choice (2005)'' and ''Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice (2007)''. In 2006, he published a study together with Bethany Peters titled "No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers" (with the

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). For that seeming controversial statement, he made numerous television appearances. In 2009 and 2010 he published the related "The Catastrophe of What Passes for Alcohol Policy Analysis" and he gave testimony before the Connecticut legislature on alcohol restrictions.

Interviews and discussions

In an interview with ''

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'' in 2019, Stringham opposed any tax and

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. In May 2020, Stringham said during a

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interview that the unemployment rate was expected to reach 16% but that the slight improvements were already noticeable. In July 2020,

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discussed the question "Why

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are joining BLM calls to defund police". Stringham pointed out a lot of parallels with the libertarians believing that the responsibilities of police departments today would be better performed by local private security bodies and suitable alternatives to state police as adopted in some other countries.

Media appearances

Stringham has appeared on dozens of media outlets including CNBC, Fox News, MTV, and NPR.

Bibliography

References

External links

''Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion and Public Choice''
By

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& Edward Stringham
''No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers''
By Bethany Peters and Edward Stringham * , video-segment on CNBC (September 2006)
''The Catastrophe of What Passes for Alcohol Policy Analysis''
By Edward Stringham; Project director Adrian Moore
Stringham Media archives
at the

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* * * * with Michael Malice {{DEFAULTSORT:Stringham, Edward 1975 births Living people American academic journal editors American book editors American economics writers 21st-century American economists American libertarians American male non-fiction writers American political writers American anarcho-capitalists Austrian School economists George Mason University alumni Mises Institute people San Jose State University faculty Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty College of the Holy Cross alumni