Benjamin Powell

He has performed numerous other professional roles in the past including director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute.,[4] President of Association of Private Enterprise Education,[5] North American editor of the Review of Austrian Economics,[6] senior economist at the Beacon Hill Institute, editorial board member at the Journal of Private Enterprise,[7] and host and co-executive producer of KTTZ Channel 5 Lubbock's – a PBS affiliate – Free to Exchange.

He wrote a journal article along with Ryan Ford and Alex Nowrasteh comparing Somalia before and after it transitioned to anarchy.

[17] Powell has also co-authored with Edward Stringham a paper on public choice theory and its implications for the economics of anarchy.

[19] He also edited The Economics of Immigration: Market-based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015).

[20] With Robert Lawson, he is the co-author of Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World (Regnery Press, 2019).