Background
Powell, Benjamin was born on May 22, 1978 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Eric Powell and Ruthanne Bergholm.
Powell, Benjamin was born on May 22, 1978 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Eric Powell and Ruthanne Bergholm.
Bachelor of Science, University Massachusetts, Lowell, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2003.
He formerly held positions at Suffolk University, San Jose State University, the Mercatus Center, and the American Institute for Economic He now teaches at Texas Technical University. Sweatshops Powell"s academic interest in sweatshops dates back to at least 2004, when he wrote a working paper along with David Skarbek for the Independent Institute looking at how sweatshop jobs compared with the other jobs available to people who took them. The working paper was later published as an article for the Journal of Labor Powell also wrote an article for Human Rights Quarterly, responding to the argument by Arnold and Hartman (2006) that activists should encourage sweatshop employers to voluntarily work toward improving the conditions of sweatshop workers.
Powell has since written journal articles on sweatshops for the Journal of Business Ethics and Comparative Economic Studies and has also written about sweatshops based on his research in other venues, such as EconLib, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, and Dallas Morning News.
He has also summarized his arguments in a 3-minute video for LearnLiberty. Powell"s forthcoming book builds on his deacde of research on the subject.
Powell has been interviewed about the subject by The Freeman, the magazine of the Foundation for Economic Education. Economic and political systems Powell has studied the economics of anarchy.
He wrote a journal article along with Ryan Ford and Alex Nowrasteh comparing Somalia before and after it transitioned to anarchy, that also served as a basis for a number of shorter pieces by him about Somalia and anarchy for more mainstream audiences.
Powell"s work has been discussed and cited by Tom Woods, Arnold Kling, and Peter Leeson. Powell has also co-authored with Edward Stringham a paper on public choice theory and its implications for the economics of anarchy.
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Powell"s work on sweatshops has been reviewed by Elise Amyx at the Values & Capitalism blog, John Miller at TripleCrisis, and Kevin Carson at the Center for a Stateless Society.
Executive board member Association Private Enterprise Education, since 2006.
Married Lisa Frye, July 5, 2003.