Hillsdale College is a private,conservative,self-described Christian,liberal arts college in Hillsdale,Michigan. It was founded in 1844 by members of the Free Will Baptists.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland,Michigan,is the largest U.S. state-based free market think tank in the United States. The Mackinac Center conducts policy research and educational programs. The Center sponsors MichiganVotes.org,an online legislative voting record database which provides a non-partisan summary of every bill and vote in the Michigan legislature. Mackinac Center scholars generally recommend lower taxes,reduced regulatory authority for state agencies,right-to-work laws,school choice,and enhanced protection of individual property rights;they avoid socially conservative issues such as reproductive or marriage rights.
Arthur Betz Laffer is an American economist and author who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–1989). Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve,an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue for government. In certain circumstances,this would allow governments to cut taxes,and simultaneously increase revenue and economic growth.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. Fellowship appointments do not require the approval of Stanford tenure committees. It is widely described as a conservative institution,although its directors have contested its partisanship.
Willard Mitt Romney is an American politician,businessman,and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election,losing to incumbent Barack Obama.
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.
Richard M. Ebeling is an American libertarian author who was the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008. Ebeling is currently the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel in Charleston,South Carolina.
Robert Glenn Hubbard is an American economist and academic. He served as the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business from 2004 to 2019,where he remains the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. On September 13,2018,he announced that he would retire from his position after his contract expired on June 30,2019. Hubbard previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1991 to 1993,and as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003.
The Romney family is prominent in U.S. politics. Notable Romney family members include George W. Romney (1907–1995),the 43rd Governor of Michigan (1963–1969),and his son,Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney was 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007),Republican nominee for President of the United States in 2012,and is currently U.S. Senator for Utah. George W. Romney's father was Gaskell Romney (1871–1955),and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt (1876–1926). Anna's grandfather was the renowned early Latter-day Saint apostle Parley Parker Pratt.
Larry Paul Arnn is an American educator and writer. He has served as the twelfth president of private college Hillsdale College in Hillsdale,Michigan,since May 2000. He is a political conservative who has been influenced by the thought of Leo Strauss and Strauss’student and Arnn’s teacher Harry V. Jaffa.
The Mitt Romney presidential campaign of 2008 began on January 3,2007,two days before Mitt Romney left office as governor of Massachusetts,when he filed to form an exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission to run for President of the United States as a Republican in the 2008 election. Subsequently,on February 13,2007,he formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. He did so at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn,Michigan,as an emblem of American ingenuity.
George Romney ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election.
Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist who is a former Senior Advisor and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019. He has written several books and coauthored Dow 36,000,published in 1999,which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward. Shortly thereafter,the dot-com bubble burst,causing a massive decline in stock market prices,though the Dow was soon to recover. It finally did reach 36,000 as the Covid pandemic receded in late 2021.
The 2012 United States presidential election was the 57th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 6,2012. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate,incumbent Vice President Joe Biden,were re-elected to a second term. They defeated the Republican ticket of businessman and former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Narayana Rao Kocherlakota is an American economist and the Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. Previously,he served as the 12th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis until December 31,2015. Appointed in 2009,he joined the Federal Open Markets Committee in 2011. In 2012,he was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.
Steven M. Sheffrin is an economist who focuses on property tax limitations in the United States. He is the Director Emeritus of Tulane University’s Murphy Institute and a professor of economics. Sheffrin is an expert in state taxation and served as a member on Louisiana's state Task Force on the Structural Changes in Budget and Tax Policy in 2016.
The 2012 presidential campaign of Gary Johnson,the 29th governor of New Mexico,was announced on April 21,2011. He declared his candidacy for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. On December 28,2011,Johnson withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination,and declared his candidacy for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. The 2012 Libertarian National Convention was held during the first weekend of May 2012. On May 5,2012,after promoting his libertarian-oriented political positions to delegates,Johnson received the most votes at the convention and became the official 2012 Libertarian presidential nominee. On November 6,2012,Johnson received just under 1% of the popular vote in the general election,amounting to more than 1.2 million votes,more than double what the Barr/Root ticket received in 2008. This was the most successful result for a third-party presidential candidacy since 2000,and the best in the Libertarian Party's history by vote number at the time. Johnson ran again in 2016 and received nearly four times his 2012 vote total.
Lanhee Joseph Chen is an American policy advisor,attorney,and academic. Chen serves as the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution,director of domestic policy studies and lecturer in the public policy program at Stanford University,and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.
Betsey Ayer Stevenson is an economist and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Additionally,she is a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich,a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and servers on the board of the American Economic Association. The Obama Administration announced her appointment as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers,a post she served from 2013 through 2015. She previously served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under Secretary Hilda Solis from 2010 to 2011. Previously,she was an Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy,at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
