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Svetozar (Steve) Pejovich is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and professor of law and economics at the University of Donja Gorica in Montenegro. In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Pejovich has written eight books, edited nine books, and published about one hundred articles in academic and popular journals. In 1957, he left his native Yugoslavia to seek freedom and a professional career in the West. He lives in Texas with his wife Susan, the principal harp of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.