ben powell

Ben Powell (Benjamin Powell)

Benjamin Powell is a free-market, loose borders economist

Currently:
* Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute
* Professor at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University and director of that university's "Free Market Institute".

Formerly:
* Associate Professor at Suffolk University
* Fellow at the Mercatus Center (funded by the Koch family)

The Free Market Institute was started with a $4 million grant from an "anonymous West Texas cattle rancher" ( peekURL.com/zDH8hhu ).

Powell received his PhD from George Mason University, home of the Mercatus Center. His video discussed in the second post from the bottom was from the Institute for Humane Studies, also part of the Koch network.

It's not known if there are any Koch links to the Independent Institute or the Rawls College of Business, but the Free Market Institute does promote various Koch programs on their "Resources for Students" page (depts.ttu . edu/freemarketinstitute/students.php).

Last modified Sep 7, 2014
Discussed in (click each link for the full post):

Ben Powell promotes Red Card plan, H1Bs using shaky economics (immigration, Forbes) - 10/19/13

In Forbes, Ben Powell of Texas Tech University offers "A U.S. Worker Shortage Calls For 'Red Card' Immigration Reform" ( peekURL.com/zKuax6f ). A discussion of how the article is wrong follows this excerpt:

Ben Powell misleads about immigration (Suffolk University, Institute for Humane Studies, Youtube) - 06/04/11

Ben Powell - an economics professor at Boston's Suffolk University - offers the video "Top 3 Myths About Immigration"; how it misleads will be discussed below.

Independent Institute: Somalia, the libertarian paradise - 12/27/06

Libertarianism - the political doctrine usually indistinguishable from satire - reaches one of its lows in a paper from Dr. Benjamin Powell called "Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?" He looks to be about 18 years old, but more telling is it's from the Independent Institute, the same group that gave us the Open Letter on Immigration.