Courses

Edward Stringham

Endowed Professor for the Study of Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Fayetteville State University

Edward P. Stringham is the Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Chair for Capitalism and Free Enterprise Studies at Fayetteville State University. He is Past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of more than two dozen articles in refereed journals including the Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, Public Choice, and the Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance.
Stringham has been discussed on more than 100 broadcast stations including CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox, Headline News, NPR, and MTV and in hundreds of newspapers worldwide, including Time magazine, 14 of the 20 highest circulating newspapers in the United States, and the highest circulating English language newspaper in the world. His work has been the subject of discussion by Entertainment Tonight’s Leeza Gibbons and inspired a cartoon by New York Times syndicated political cartoonist Jeff Danziger.
Stringham earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2002, and has won the Templeton Culture of Enteprise Best Article Award, Paper of the Year Award from the Association of Private Enterprise, Best Article Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Second Place in the Independent Institute Garvey Contest, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Liberalni Institut and the Prague School of Economics.

Blog Posts

Market demand is reforming farm ethics

March 10, 2017
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Free Markets and Capitalism

How are farm animals treated and should one care? Libertarian philosopher Loren Lomasky once gave me the most succinct argument for caring about the welfare of, at least some, animals: “You wouldn’t put your cat in a microwave, would you?” For the record, I am not vegetarian and I follow something similar to a paleo diet, which is high in animal proteins and fats. But whether or not one believes animals have rights, I am fairly confident that the last oysters I ate were unaware that their fate involved me and a bottle of champagne. As far as I know, bivalves do not even have brains. But what

We need less politics and more private governance

January 26, 2017
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Role of Government

We’ve lived through another election season, and as with every election year, the candidates competed to tell us about all the ways they were going to use the power of government to make our lives better. Unfortunately, many voters appeared quite sympathetic to the idea that government action can improve living standards and generally make markets work better. That’s the bad news. But, there are also trends at work right now that are bigger than any single election cycle, and while the candidates this year provided little reason for optimism, the voters themselves may be growing skeptical of