George Leef

George Charles Leef (born February 4, 1951) is the director of research of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

Biography

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Carroll University in 1973 and a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1977.^[1][2][3] He was a faculty member at Northwood University, where he taught business law, economics, and logic. He was later a vice-president at the John Locke Foundation and director of the Pope Center until the Pope Center became an independent nonprofit in 2003.

Leef is the author of Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement and editor of Educating Teachers: The Best Minds Speak Out. From 1996 through 2012, he was the book review editor of The Freeman, a libertarian journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education.^[4] He has published articles and book reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Regulation,^[5] Christian Science Monitor,^[6] The Cato Journal,^[7] and other publications.

Leef describes himself as a libertarian who is skeptical about governmental programs and policies that aim at improving the welfare of the people, seeing that they so often turn out to benefit only a few people at the expense of the many. He frequently elaborates on his views about education and public policy on his Forbes page,^[8] where he has been a contributor since 2013, and he blogs at Phi Beta Cons.^[9]

Books, articles and interviews

• Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement. Jameson Books. 2006. ISBN 9780915463978. OCLC 61437120.
• Educating Teachers: The Best Minds Speak Out
• Pope Center Articles by George Leef
• George C. Leef in The Freeman
• George Leef in the Carolina Journal
• George Leef in the National Review
• George Leef at Minding the Campus
• The Overselling of Higher Education
• Professors Have Freedom of Speech
• George Leef on Health Care
• George Leef Talks to Andy Nash about Higher Education
• George Leef on the Legal Profession
• George Leef on Higher Education Reform
• George Leef on Unauthorized Practice of Law Prohibitions
• George Leef at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
• George Leef at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
• George Leef on the Relation Between Capitalism and the Constitution of the United States

References

1. "The Staff of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy". Retrieved 2012-05-07.
2. "George C. Leef". The Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
3. "George Leef". Carolina Journal. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
4. "Archive for George C. Leef". The Foundation for Economic Education. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
5. "Look What the Brits Have Done!" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-04-16.
6. "The US Doesn't Need More College Grads". Retrieved 2015-04-16.
7. "Prevailing Wage Laws: Public Interest or Special Interest Legislation?" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-04-16.
8. George Leef. "George Leef - Freedom, Not Force". Forbes.
9. "George Leef". National Review Online.