Benjamin Powell

Benjamin W. "Ben" Powell (born 1978) is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank in the United States.

Benjamin Powell received a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

He formerly held positions at Suffolk University, San Jose State University, the Mercatus Center, and the American Institute for Economic Research. He now teaches at Texas Tech University.

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 Research. 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 Forbes,Christian Science Monitor, and Dallas Morning News. He has also summarized his arguments in a 3-minute video for LearnLiberty. Powell's book Out of Poverty builds on his deacde of research on the subject.

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