The following bio is that of an event speaker or guest author. This person is not directly affiliated with the John Locke Foundation.
Robert Whaples, Professor of Economics, has taught at Wake Forest University since 1991. He is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and co-editor of The Independent Review, a quarterly journal which publishes scholarship at the intersection of economics, political science, history, law and philosophy. He has recently co-edited four books – Future: Economic Peril or Prosperity?, The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History, The Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History, and The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists. Another book he edited, on the political economy of Pope Francis, will be published next year. He is also book review editor for EH.Net, which runs a website dedicated to making economic and business history accessible to the public. He teaches Introduction to Economics at WFU, as well as courses in the economics of entrepreneurship, environmental/natural resource economics and current economic issues. His course Modern Economic Issues (2007), which includes 36 thirty-minute lectures, is available on CD and DVD from The Teaching.