Dr. Ross B. Emmett is the director of the Center for the Study of Economic Liberty and professor of political economy at Arizona State University. He previously served as professor of political economy and political theory & constitutional democracy at James Madison College at Michigan State University.

A historian of economic thought, his work is concerned with the constitutional political economy of a free society and the enhancement of the bourgeois virtues that support it. He is currently writing a biography of the Chicago economist Frank H. Knight, co-authoring a book on T. Robert Malthus’ contributions to constitutional political economy, and planning a book on the history of the relation of economics and Christian theology since the 1830s.