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Bruce Benson, DeVoe L. Moore Distinguished Research Professor in the department of economics at Florida State University, will speak on “The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War” 7:30 p.m. Monday in Jacqua Auditorium, Hugel Science Center.
A widely published researcher and associate editor of The Journal of Drug Issues, Benson is a candidate for the Simon Chair in Economics at Lafayette. He will give economic insight into the war on drugs, followed by a question-and-answer session. The event is free and open to the public.
Benson is serving as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Economicsto the Czech Republic, having taught law and economics and neoinstitutional economics May 10-31, 2003 at the Vysoká kola Ekonomická (University of Economics), Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, in Prague. He will teach there again May 8-29.
His other affiliations include: senior fellow, executive staff, Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.; associate, Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Mont.; research associate and Research Advisory Council member, James Madison Institute for Policy Studies in Tallahassee, Fla.; adjunct scholar, Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala.; adjunct fellow, Enterprise Prison Institute in Washington, D.C.; and associate, Institute of Economic Affairs in London, England.
Benson has a dozen advisory board memberships, including positions with The Journal of Drug Issues, Quarterly Journal of Libertarian Studies, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Center for the Study of Emerging Institutions, Review of Austrian Economics,Society for Legal and Economics Studies (Prague), DeVoe L. Moore Center, Econ Journal Watch, Friedrich A. von Hayek Foundation (Buenos Aires), Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, and Association of Private Enterprise Education.