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daniel d'amico , peter leeson , edward stringham austrian school james greif , murray rothbard m. buchanan , david d. friedman , avner firebrick adam smith award united states bruce l. benson
 economics law , commercial law , criminal justice , free-market environmentalism , austrian school , polycentric law , private florida state university 18 march 1949 e pbe162 bruce l. benson university of montana , texas a & m
bruce l. benson

bruce l. benson -lrb- born march 18 , 1949 -rrb- received his ph.d. from texas a&m university in 1978 and is chair of the department of economics , devoe l. moore professor , distinguished research professor and courtesy professor of law at florida state university .
he is an american academic economist who is widely recognized as an authority on law and economics and a major exponent of anarcho-capitalism legal theory .
he is the recipient of the 2006 adam smith award , the highest honor bestowed by the association of private enterprise education .
he is a senior fellow at the independent institute and has recently been a fulbright senior specialist in the czech republic , visiting professor at the university de paris pantheonon assas , a property-and-environment-research-center julian simon fellow , and visiting research fellow at the american institute for economic research .
