__NOTOC__ Richard M. Ebeling (; born January 30, 1950) is an American

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author who was the president of the

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(FEE) from 2003 to 2008. Ebeling is currently the

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Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel in

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. Ebeling is a supporter of the

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and written extensively on the subject, particularly as inspired by the works of

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, Ludwig Lachmann, and

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. Much of his career has focused on

, for whom he posthumously published a trove of writings that had been looted by the Nazis from his Vienna apartment in 1938 and subsequently captured by the Soviet Army at the end of World War II. Following the documents' discovery and translation, Ebeling edited and published the three volume series ''Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises''. Ebeling's most recent works include ''Political Economy, Public Policy, and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition'' (Routledge, 2010), ''Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom'' (Edward Elgar, 2003), ''Monetary Central Planning and the State'' (The Future of Freedom Foundation, 2015) and ''For a New Liberalism'' (American Institute for Economic Research, 2019). He was a co-author and co-editor of ''In Defense of Capitalism'' in 5 volumes.

Biography

Ebeling received his B.A. degree in economics from

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, Sacramento, his M.A. degree in economics from

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and a Ph.D. in economics from

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in London. Ebeling served as a lecturer at

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, Ireland from 1981 to 1983 as an assistant professor at the

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from 1984 to 1988 and then as the

Professor of Economics at

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from 1988 to 2003. From 1989 to 2003, he also served as vice president of academic affairs for the Future of Freedom Foundation. Ebeling was named president of

(FEE) in May 2003 and announced in April 2008 that he was resigning his position to return to teaching. From 2004 to 2005, Ebeling served as an adjunct professor at The King's College in New York City. He also serves as an adjunct scholar at the

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. Ebeling was the Shelby C. Davis Visiting Professor in American Economic History and Entrepreneurship at

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in Hartford, Connecticut (2008–2009) and a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in

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(2008–2009). Ebeling was a professor of economics at

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(2009–2014) in

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. Ebeling received the Franz Cuhel Award for Excellence in Free Market Education presented by the Liberální Institut (Prague, 2007)See
PCPE 2007 Čuhel Memorial Lecture
and the "Liberty in Theory: Lifetime Award" presented by

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/Libertarian International (London, 2005). He has also twice been a Hayek Fellow at the

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(1975, 1977).

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