Assistant professor of political economy at Duke University; senior scholar at The Atlas Society; senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research; president, InterMarket Forecasting, Inc. Specialist in Objectivism, capitalism, public finance, money and banking, constitutionalism. Major influences: Ayn Rand, Jean-Baptiste Say, Alexander Hamilton. Most recent books: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC DEBT (2017), WHERE HAVE ALL THE CAPITALISTS GONE? ESSAYS IN MORAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (2021). For more: www.richardsalsman.com