Campbell professor emeritus honored for lifetime achievement

     Dr. William H. Peterson, the Burrows T. and Mabel L. Lundy Emeritus Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University, has received the 2005 Gary G. Schlarbaum Award ($10,000 prize) for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Human Liberty from the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala. The Mises Institute is the leading scholarly center for research and teaching in the Austrian school of economics, as well as an important research center for classical liberalism and libertarianism.
     Peterson received a master’s degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. During his academic career, he served as assistant to the dean, associate professor and professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University, where he was a colleague and friend of Ludwig von Mises. Peterson was also the Scott L. Probasco Jr. Professor of Free Enterprise and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Tennessee and a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, where he continues to serve as adjunct professor.
     Peterson has published articles in the “Harvard Business Review, “The Freeman,” “The Free Market,” “Washington Times,” “New York Times,” and the “Christian Science Monitor,” among others. For 14 years his column, “Reading for Business,” appeared in the “Wall Street Journal.” He is the author of book, “The Great Farm Problem,” and has published entries to McGraw-Hill’s “Encyclopedia of Economics.” In addition, Peterson has appeared as a guest commentator on the national PBS Television “Nightly Business Report,” and he currently contributes a column to the “Investor’s Business Daily.”




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