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Dr. Paul Cwik is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and the BB&T Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Mount Olive. He earned a BA from Hillsdale College, an MA from Tulane University, and a PhD from Auburn University, where he was a Mises Research Fellow. He has taught at several colleges and universities, including Auburn University, Campbell University, and Walsh College. He co-chairs the Austrian Economics Forum, a student discussion group at NCSU. Dr. Cwik has presented academic papers at the Southern Economic Association, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, the Prague Conference on Political Economy, the Austrian Scholars Conference, the BB&T Conferences on the study of capitalism, and the Austrian Economics Research Conference. He has published in academic journals that include Economic AffairsThe Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsNew Perspectives on Political Economy: A Bilingual Interdisciplinary Journal, and Business Ethics: A European Review. He is also a reviewer of Essays in Economic and Business History and The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He has also published in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and his dissertation has been cited by The Wall Street Journal (February 2006).