The Journal of Liberty and Society Faculty Committee is an innovation for the journal’s second edition. This international committee brings together leading scholars on the issue of liberty in a diversity of fields. In addition to guiding the growth of the journal, members of the Faculty Committee will review submitted papers to the Journal of Liberty and Society to provide an experienced scholar’s input in addition to the traditional peer reviews that the journal provides.
Members of the 2010 Faculty Committee include:
Dr. Michele Boldrin, Washington University in St. Louis (United States)
Michele Boldrin holds a PhD from the University of Rochester (1987) and is currently Joseph G. Hoyt Distinguished Professor of Economics and Department Chairman, at Washington University in Saint Louis. Previously, he has been on the Faculty of the University of Chicago, UCLA, Northwestern, Carlos III, and Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Associate Editor of Econometrica, an Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, a Research Fellow at CEPR, London, and FEDEA, Madrid. He has served as an advisor to various international agencies and governments. In his research he uses dynamic general equilibrium tools to try understanding real world problems, with a particular focus on economic growth, innovation, business cycles, and the welfare state. He has published articles in all major economic research journals. His new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, coauthored with David K. Levine, was published by Cambridge University Press in June 2008.
Dr. Raimondo Cubeddu, University of Pisa (Italy)
Raimondo Cubeddu is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universityof Pisa. His research interests are in the fields of Liberal Political Theory and the Austrian School, Theory of Institutions, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. He is member of the scientific board of several foundations and international and national journals. He directed research groups and organised national and international scientific meetings. He extensively lectures in Italian and foreign universities.
Recent Pubblications: The Philosophy of the Austrian School, London-New York, Routledge 1993; Politica e certezza, Napoli, Alfredo Guida, 2000; Uncertainty, Institutions and Order in Hayek, in J. Birner, P. Garrouste, and T. Aimar (eds.), F. A. Hayek as a Political Economist, London-New York, Routledge 2002; Margini del liberalismo, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino 2003; Legge naturale o diritti naturali? Alcune questioni di filosofia politica liberale, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino 2004.
Dr. Valerio Filoso, University of Naples (Italy)
Valerio Filoso is Assistant Professor in Public Economics at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He has been Visiting Professor in Macroeconomics at San Diego State University (USA) and Professor of Monetary Economics and Applied Economics at the Second University of Naples. He has also been Visiting Scholar at Tel Aviv University. His research interests cover the theory and the econometrics of human capital, family economics, intergenerational issues, and the Austrian school of economics.
Dr. Bill Glod, Institute for Humane Studies (United States)
Dr. Bradley K. Hobbs, Florida Gulf Coast University (United States)
Dr. Lorenzo Infantino, Luiss University (Italy)
Lorenzo Infantino is Professor of Philosophy of Social Science at the Faculty of Economics of the University LUISS Guido Carli of Rome. He achieved the academic degree in Economics at the University of Siena, mark 110/110 cum laude. He has been in Oxford, New York and Madrid as Visiting Professor and his books have been translated in many languages (“L’ordine senza piano”, “Ignorenza e libertà”, “Individualismo”, “Mercato e storia delle idée”. He studied sociology and theory of knowing and he is known as a researcher of the “tradition of research” started by Menger and developed by the Austrian School.
Dr. Carlo Lottieri, University of Siena (Italy)
Dr. Antonio Masala, IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy)
Antonio Masala graduated in Political Science and got his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He hold a course in Political Science in the same University and currently he is Assistant Professor in Political Thought at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, in Lucca. His research mainly deals with the contemporary Political Philosophy and in particular the traditions of Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism. He also works on institutional transitions and cultural changes process in western countries, at that moment focusing on the case Thatcherism.
Between his publications: Morte presunta e resurrezione incerta della Filosofia Politica nel Novecento, «Il Politico», 2009; Liberté et droit dans la pensée de Bruno Leoni, in Histoire du Liberalisme en Europe (eds J. Petitot, P. Nemo), Paris, PUF, 2006; Le libéralisme Italien: Introduction, (with Raimondo Cubeddu) in Histoire du Liberalisme en Europe (eds J. Petitot, P. Nemo), Paris, PUF, 2006; La teoria politica di Bruno Leoni, (ed. A. Masala), Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2006;Processi globali e nuovo ruolo dello Stato, «Il Politico», 2005; Il liberalismo di Bruno Leoni, Soveria-Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2003; Natural Right, Providence and Order: Frederic Bastiat’s Laissez Faire (with Raimondo Cubeddu), Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines», 2001.
Dr. Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University (United States)
Jeffrey A. Miron is Senior Lecturer on Economics at Harvard University. Miron received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1984. Miron has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan (associate professor with tenure), Boston University (professor with tenure) and as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and the Department of Economics, Harvard University From 1992-1998, he was chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University. He has published more than 25 articles in refereed journals and 30 op-eds in the Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal, and Boston Globe. He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs.
Dr. Pietro Navarra, University of Messina & London School of Economics (United Kingdom)
Dr. Aeon J. Skoble, Bridgewater State College (United States)
AEON J. SKOBLE is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Bridgewater State College, in Massachusetts. He is the co-editor of Political Philosophy: Essential Selections (Prentice-Hall, 1999), editor of Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty (Lexington, 2008), and author of Deleting the State: An Argument about Government (Open Court, 2008), as well as many articles on moral and political philosophy. His main research areas include theories of rights, the nature and justification of authority, virtue ethics, practical reason and moral psychology, just-war theory, classical theories of happiness, and theories of legal interpretation. In addition, he writes widely on the intersection of philosophy and popular culture.
Dr. Jesús Huerta de Soto, Rey Juane Carlos University (Spain)
