Question: Facts: - era: contemporary philosophy - influences: ayn rand - region: western philosophy - school tradition: libertarianism - birth date: 18 march 1939 - name: tibor r. machan - nationality: budapest , hungarian american - image: tibormachan italy06.jpg - birth place: hungary - alma mater: uc university -lrb- ma 1966 -rrb- claremont mckenna college -lrb- ba santa 1965 -rrb- barbara -lrb- ph.d. 1971 -rrb- new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of tibor r. machan .
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tibor richard machan -lrb- ; born 18 march 1939 -rrb- is a hungarian american philosopher .a professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at auburn university , machan held the r. c. hoiles chair of business ethics and free enterprise at the argyros school of business & economics at chapman university in orange , california until december 31 , 2014 .he has been a research fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university , an adjunct scholar at the cato institute , and an adjunct faculty member of the ludwig von mises institute .machan is a syndicated and freelance columnist ; author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and more than forty books , among them the recent '' why is everyone else wrong ? ''-lrb- springer , 2008 -rrb- .he is senior contributing editor at '' the daily bell '' .though he can be broadly classified as a libertarian on many important issues , machan rejects any division of libertarianism into '' left wing '' and '' right wing '' .he holds that , by its nature , libertarianism is about political liberty for all individuals to do whatever is peaceful and non-aggressive .machan is a minarchist .