Benjamin Powell

Benjamin Powell’s Followers (18)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Benjamin Powell



Benjamin Powell is the Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a Visiting Professor in the Rawls College of Business. He is the North American Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, and a senior fellow with the Independent Institute. He earned his B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

Professor Powell is the author of Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press: 2014), editor of Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford University Press: 2008) and co-editor of Housi
...more

Average rating: 4.06 · 1,023 ratings · 169 reviews · 95 distinct works
Out of Poverty: Sweatshops ...

4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Economics of Immigratio...

4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Making Poor Nations Rich: E...

by
3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Essential Worm Bin for ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Rate this book
Clear rating
Economic Freedom and Prospe...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Erichthonius and the Three ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1906 — 38 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Socialismo amargo: Dois eco...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Miracle on Kildare Street: ...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Poems from the Heart

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
Greek Inscriptions from Cor...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Benjamin Powell…
Quotes by Benjamin Powell  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Buy American and helping sweatshop workers are conflicting goals.”
Benjamin Powell, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy

“As economist Christopher Coyne said about Bono, there is a difference between singing about poor people and actually helping them.”
Benjamin Powell, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy



Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Benjamin to Goodreads.