Gary Libecap Named Wesson Fellow at the Hoover Institute

Gary Libecap, Anheuser Busch Professor of Economics, Law, and Entrepreneurship has been named the Robert Wesson Fellow at The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

Each year, the Hoover Institute bestows fellowships on one of the most highly distinguished groups of people in the world. The institutes limited named fellowships are reserved for those at the top of their field and considered to be significant contributors to the Hoover philosophy and mission.

The Hoover Institute is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economyboth domestic and foreignas well as international affairs. Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who later became the thirty-first president of the United States, the Institution originated as a specialized collection of documents on the causes and consequences of World War I. The collection grew rapidly and soon became one of the largest archives and most complete libraries in the world devoted to political, economic, and social change in the twentieth century.

With its world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society.

A remarkably varied and distinguished group of people at the Hoover Institution collect, study, debate, refine, and disseminate ideas. Approximately one hundred scholars explore ideas that shape positive change in public policy. Their distinction is recognized through membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as recipients of the Nobel Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and other prestigious awards.

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is hard to match for sheer intellectual firepower.
                                                              — The Economist

The work of the Hoover Institution was an indispensable part of winning the Cold War for freedom.... Now, in the post-Cold War world, it is equally important to shore up our system's defenses by studying the threats it faces. Hoover has a vital contribution to make to this."

                        — Lady Margaret Thatcher, Honorary Fellow

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