Rational Conduct

Dr. Richard Ebeling is one of the leading professors in the Austrian economic tradition and former president of Foundation for Economic Education.  Linked below he is interviewed by The Daily Bell.  What’s exciting is the quote below.  He will be a professor at Northwood University, where I attend school.  This isn’t the first time I had heard this, but the second time I heard it confirmed.  Last time was by Sheldon Richman at a FEE seminar a couple weeks back.  Very exciting, indeed.

Check it out:

Daily Bell: Why did you decide to return to teaching?

Dr. Ebeling: Teaching in the classroom has always been my first love. I more or less set for myself a five-year horizon to work at FEE, and then see about returning to higher education. So this past academic year, 2008-2009, I have been a visiting professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. I’ve also been serving as a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, for which I’ve written a variety of commentaries about the causes of the current economic crisis, and the wrongheadedness of many of the government policies implemented to supposedly end it.

This coming autumn of 2009, I take up a new, permanent position as a professor of economics at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. Northwood is a serious and well-respected business school devoted to the principles of freedom and the free market [emphasis mine]. They have a fine faculty and excellent students. I’m looking forward to joining their very worthwhile mission of helping to train and prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs and businessmen, all of whom are introduced to the ideas of individual freedom, free markets, the rule of law, and limited, constitutional government. Among the courses I’ve been asked to teach each year is Austrian Economics, which I will very much enjoy.