Background
Stringham, Edward Peter was born on January 18, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Stringham, Edward Peter was born on January 18, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from College of the Holy Cross and his Doctor of Philosophy from George Mason University.
He is the Davis Professor of Economic Innovation at Trinity College. He has also held faculty positions at Fayetteville State University and Texas Technical University. He has been the editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise since 2006.
Additionally, he served as the President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education from 2006 to 2007.
A year later, in 2006, he published a study together with Bethany Peters titled "Number Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers" (with the Reason Foundation). Foreign this seeming controversial statement he made numerous television appearances.
In 2009 and 2010 he published the related "The Catastrophe of What Passes for Alcohol Policy Analysis" and he gave testimony before the Connecticut legislature on alcohol restrictions. Stringham has appeared on dozens of media outlets including Consumer News and Business Channel, Fox News, Music Television, and National Public Radio.
He has edited Anarchy, State and Public Choice (2006) and Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice (2007). The article entitled "Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion and Public Choice" was co-authored with Bryan Caplan and appeared in Review of Political Economy.
He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.