Dr. Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, one of the world's leading policy think tanks. He holds degrees in economics and psychology, a PhD in philosophy, and an honorary DLitt. In the 1970s he worked for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy at Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute. A former winner of the Freedom Medal of Freedom's Foundation at Valley Forge and the UK National Free Enterprise Award, he is currently Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society. Eamonn is author of many books, including introductions on the pioneering economists Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. He has recently published An Introduction to Capitalism, and Ayn Rand, An Introduction. He has also published primers on Classical Liberalism, Public Choice, Magna Carta, the Austrian School of Economics and great liberal thinkers, as well as The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Best Book on the Market. His Foundations of a Free Society won the 2014 Fisher Prize. His popular books include Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls, The Rotten State of Britain, The Alternative Manifesto, The Economics of Success, and of a series of books on IQ. He is a frequent contributor to print, broadcast and online media.
