Lawrence W. Reed
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| Born | September 29, 1953 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution | Foundation for Economic Education |
| Field | Public Policy |
| School or tradition |
Austrian School |
| Alma mater |
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (M.A.) Grove City College (B.A.) |
| Influences |
F.A. Hayek Ludwig von Mises Henry Hazlitt Frédéric Bastiat |
Lawrence W. (Larry) Reed (born September 29, 1953) is president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan based free-market think tank. To date, he remains Mackinac’s president emeritus.
Reed was born and raised in Pennsylvania, United States.
He has cited the 1968 event between the Czechs and the Soviets known as the "Prague Spring", as the genesis for his interest in liberty and freedom, and has referred to the Czech cause as a “flowering of liberty.” As a result of interactions with FEE in his teen years, Reed became exposed to the ideas of F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and others from the Austrian school of economics.
In 1982, he was the Republican candidate for U. S. Congress in Michigan’s 10th district.
Reed holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Grove City College (1975) and a Master of Arts degree in History from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1978).
From 1977 to 1984 he taught economics at Midland, Michigan’s Northwood University, serving as chairman of the Department of Economics from 1982 to 1984. While at Northwood, Reed designed the university's dual major in Economics and Business Management and founded its annual "Freedom Seminar."
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