Bruce L. Benson
Bruce L. Benson is an American academic economist who is recognized as an authority on law and economics and a major exponent of anarcho-capitalist legal theory. He is chair of the department of economics, DeVoe L. Moore Professor, distinguished research professor and courtesy professor of law at Florida State University and the recipient of the 2006 Adam Smith Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute and has recently been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the Czech Republic, visiting professor at the university de Paris Pantheonon Assas, a Property-and-Environment-Research-Center Julian Simon Fellow, and visiting research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.
Education
Benson received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1978.
Publications
Benson is the author of four books, co-editor of another, author of over 125 peer-reviewed academic articles, author of over 65 chapters in edited books and has presented numerous scholarly papers. He has written some of the leading libertarian law and economics perspectives on regulation, criminalization, commercial law, and Native American law. His books include:American Antitrust Law in Theory and in Practice, Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1989, 265 plus xiii pages.The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State, San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1990, 397 plus viii pages.The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994, 265 plus viii pages.To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice, New York: New York University Press, 1998, 372 plus xxvii pages; with a foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang, director, Center for Studies in Criminology, University of Pennsylvania. Edited Series: "Political Economy of the Austrian School" series, Mario Rizzo, general editor.Justicia Sin Estado Self Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans, an edited volume, Stanford University Press, 2006, 332 plus xv pages.