| Richard Ebeling | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | professor, author, editor, former president of FEE |
| Spouse | Anna Ebeling |
Richard M. Ebeling (born 1950, New York City) is an American libertarian author, and was president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008.
He has written and edited numerous books, including the three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises (Liberty Fund). His most recent works are Political Economy, Public Policy, and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition, (Routledge, 2010), and Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom (Edward Elgar, 2003). He is the co-author and co-editor of, In Defense of Capitalism.[1]
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Ebeling received his B.A. degree in economics from California State University, Sacramento, his M.A. degree in economics from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Middlesex University in London, UK.
He served as a lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland, from 1981 to 1983, as an assistant professor at the University of Dallas from 1984 to 1988, and then as the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College from 1988 to 2003.[2]
From 1989 to 2003, he also served as vice president of academic affairs for the Future of Freedom Foundation. Ebeling was named president of Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2003, and announced in April 2008 that he was resigning his position to return to teaching.
From 2004-2005, Ebeling served as an Adjunct Professor at The King's College in New York City. He taught mostly economics classes, including Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought.
He was the Shelby C. Davis Visiting Professor in American Economic History and Entrepreneurship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (2008–2009), and a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (2008–2009).
Dr. Richard Ebeling is currently a professor of economics at Northwood University in Midland, MI.[3]He regularly teaches courses on Austrian Economic Theory, History of Economic Thought, Economics of Public Policy, Money and Banking, and Philosophy of American Enterprise.
In 2000, Ebeling was asked by Harry Browne to seek the nomination of the Libertarian Party for Vice-President of the United States, but turned down the offer because of work commitments.
In 1990-1991, Dr. Ebeling frequently traveled to the former Soviet Union consulting with the government of Lithuania and with members of the Russian Parliament and the city of Moscow on free market reform and privatization of the socialist economy. In January 1991 he witnessed first-hand the Soviet military crackdown in Vilnius, Lithuania, during which 13 people were killed. While in Moscow in August 1991 he joined the defenders of freedom and democracy at the barricades surrounding the Russian Parliament during the failed Soviet hard line Communist coup-attempt.
In October 1996, he traveled to Moscow, once again, with his wife, Anna Ebeling, this time uncovering the "lost papers" of the famous Austrian economist and leading classical liberal, Ludwig von Mises in a formerly secret Soviet archive. Looted by the Nazis from his Vienna apartment in 1938, Mises' papers were captured by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War. Dr. Ebeling was able to obtain photocopies of virtually the entire collection of documents numbering about 10,000 items, which had been kept in that formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow for 50 years.
Dr. Ebeling has supervised the translation and edited a large number of these papers for a three-volume Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises published by Liberty Fund of Indianapolis. The last of the three volumes will be published in April 2012. Volumes I and II contain a large selection of articles, lectures, and previously unpublished policy papers by Ludwig von Mises covering the period before, during, and after the First World War (1906–1938), when, for most of that time, Mises made his living as a senior economic policy analyst for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Volume III contains previously unpublished lectures and monographs written between 1940 and 1945 on the theme of "The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction," dealing with the problems of economic recovery after the Second World War.
Dr. Ebeling received the “Franz Cuhel Award for Excellence in Free Market Education,” presented by the Liberalni Institute at the annual Prague Conference on Political Economy (Prague, April 2007) and the “Liberty in Theory: Lifetime Award” for contributions advancing the case for classical liberalism, presented by Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International (London, November 2005). He has also twice been a Hayek Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies (1975, 1977).
He lectures extensively on privatization, monetary reform, free trade, and other topics in the United States, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia. He has been a guest lecturer at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, the Prague School of Economics in the Czech Republic, at INTI (International University) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the American National University (ANC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The term "The Ebeling Mustache" has become popular among northeastern colleges. The phrase distinguishes a common mustache from one that commands the utmost respect and accompanies an intellect that reflects the magnitude of the facial hair growth.