Our People
Executive Director

Benjamin Powell is the executive director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.
Associate Managing Director

Charles Long is the associate managing director of the Free Market Institute and an instructor of applied business economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.
Faculty

Kevin Grier is Gordon Tullock Professor of Political Economy at the Free Market Institute and a professor of political science in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Robin Grier is a professor of economics at the Free Market Institute and a professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Gordon W. Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources.

Andrew Young is the director of graduate students and a research fellow at the Free Market Institute. He is also a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

Adam Martin is Political Economy Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and an associate professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Gordon W. Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources.

Jamie Bologna Pavlik is a research fellow at the Free Market Institute and an associate professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Gordon W. Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources.

Alexander William Salter is Comparative Economics Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

Bryan Cutsinger is a research assistant professor at the Free Market Institute and an assistant professor of economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University. He is also the assistant director for Free Market Institute programming at Angelo State University.

Edwar Escalante is a research assistant professor at the Free Market Institute and an assistant professor of economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University.
Faculty Affiliates

Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of internal medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and a faculty affiliate at the Free Market Institute.

Justin Tosi is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas Tech University and a faculty affiliate at the Free Market Institute.
Research Assistants

Gor Mkrtchian is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Henry Moncrieff is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Silvio Simonetti is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Towhid Mahmood is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Vincent Miozzi is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

João Pedro Bastos is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Elisha Denkyirah is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Jordan Hillman is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Florence Muhoza is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Jedediah Pida-Reese is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Luisa García Carrión is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Vicente Moreno Casas is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Adam Swisher is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Peter Yakobe is a research assistant at the Free Market Institute and a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Administrative Staff

Amanda Smith is the administrator for student and public programming at the Free Market Institute.

Paula Yeager is the administrator for research programming at the Free Market Institute.
For a listing of past research staff and past Ph.D. Fellows, please visit the Free Market Institute Alumni page.
Free Market Institute
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Address
Texas Tech University - Box 45059 - Lubbock, TX - 79409-5059 -
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Email
free.market@ttu.edu