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Ross B. Emmett is Director of the Center for the Study of Economic Liberty and Professor of Economic Thought in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, positions held since 2018. He also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Economics. Previously, Emmett was Professor of Political Economy and Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy at James Madison College, Michigan State University from 2009 to 2018, and Associate Professor there from 2003 to 2009. Earlier appointments include John P. Tandberg Chair & Associate Professor of Economics at Augustana University College (1997-2003), Associate Professor (1994-1997) and Assistant Professor (1989-1994) at the same institution, and Assistant Professor of Business (1982-1984) and Instructor of Business (1981-1982) at Trinity Western University. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manitoba in 1989, with the dissertation “The Economist as Philosopher”: Frank H. Knight and American Social Science during the Twenties and Early Thirties, which received the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Award from the History of Economics Society in 1992. Additional degrees include an I.M.B.A. in Business with concentration in International Finance & Banking from the University of South Carolina (1981) and a B.A. in History cum laude from Old Dominion University (1978).