Bio
Dr. Richard M. Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. Among the courses he has taught are “Market Ethics in Modern Society” and “The Economics of Conflict.”
Dr. Ebeling is recognized as one of the leading members of the Austrian School of Economics and is the author of For a New Liberalism (American Institute for Economic Research, 2019), Austrian Economics and Public Policy: Restoring Freedom and Prosperity (Future of Freedom Foundation, 2016); Monetary Central Planning and the State (Future of Freedom Foundation, 2015); as well as the author of Political Economy, Public Policy, and Monetary Economics: Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Tradition (Routledge, 2010) and Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom (Edward Elgar, 2003).
He is also the editor of the three-volume, Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises (Liberty Fund, 2000, 2002, 2012), the co-editor of When We Are Free (Northwood University Press, 2014), an anthology of essays devoted to the moral, political and economic principles of the free society, and co-author of the nine-volume, In Defense of Capitalism (Northwood University Press, 2010-2019).
Prior to his appointment at The Citadel, Dr. Ebeling was professor of economics at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan (2009-2014). He served as president of the Foundation for Economic Education (2003-2008), was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillside College in Hillsdale, Michigan (1988-2003), and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Dallas in Texas (1984-1988).
Dr. Ebeling served as president of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics in 2020. In 2022, he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree from Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, one of the leading institutions of higher learning in Latin America, for his contributions to the Social Sciences. And in 2023, Dr. Ebeling was bestowed with a Knighthood in the Military Order of the Principality of Sealand, the smallest micro-nation in the world off the east coast of Great Britain.
He lives with his wife, Anna, and their standard poodle “Duke Ellington” in Mt. Pleasant.
Degrees
Ph.D., Middlesex University in London, England
M.S., Rutgers University
B.S., California State University