Hunter Lewis

Hunter Lewis is author of twelve books, including The Secular Saints: And Why Morals Are Not Just Subjective, Economics in Three Lessons & One Hundred Economic Laws, Where Keynes Went Wrong, and Crony Capitalism in America 2008-2012, and has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Times of London, The Atlantic and many other magazines and web sites including Mises.org and LewRockwell.com. Lewis is also co-founder of Against Crony Capitalism, co-founder and CEO of investment firm Hunter Lewis LLC, and co-founder and former CEO of global investment firm Cambridge Associates LLC. He has served on boards and committees of fifteen not-for-profit organizations, including environmental, teaching, research, and cultural organizations, as well as the World Bank.

Articles

Crony Capitalism in Scientific Research

02/07/2019 Power & Market Hunter Lewis

My wife and I read a quirky newsletter you won’t find online called the Belly of the Beast. It is the source of this startling but then again not surprising information: Academic researchers publish 2...

“FDA Approval” is a Monopolist’s Scheme to Limit Competition

08/13/2018 Power & Market Hunter Lewis

Charging the price of an expensive car for a garden-variety amino acid, one we eat every day. A year ago, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) approved a “drug” called Endari to treat sickle cell...

These Eight Words Helped Cause the Great Depression

07/09/2018 Mises Wire Hunter Lewis

Can the entire story of the worst economic disaster in American history really be told from just eight words in a political party’s platform? In this case, yes. Here are the fateful words that...

Publications

Crony Capitalism in America

01/11/2016 Hunter Lewis

When private interests need a political favor, they know whom to call. When politicians need money, they also know whom to call. The people involved try to keep most of it concealed behind closed doors. This is the system that prevailed in Russia

Free Prices Now! Fixing the Economy by Abolishing the Fed

01/11/2016 Hunter Lewis

Free Prices Now! begins by asking why the human race is still so poor. How can it be that billions still lack even enough to eat? It then provides the answer. A prosperous society is a cooperative society. Cooperation in turn depends on trust. And

Where Keynes Went Wrong

10/01/2009 Hunter Lewis

Hunter Lewis’s book Where Keynes Went Wrong was the greatest literary surprise of 2009, a welcome relief from a slew of awful books on economics appearing in the popular press. Lewis’s book is thoroughly Austrian, a recapitulation of Hazlitt’s

Media

Crony Capitalism

01/28/2014 Hunter Lewis

Interviewed by Merlin Rothfeld and John O’Donnell, Hunter Lewis discusses the major problem facing government and big business, and outlines some of the areas where there is significant corruption.

Crony Capitalism Revisited (Is Keynesianism What We Think It Is?)

03/11/2012 Hunter Lewis

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture. Recorded March 9, 2012, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. Audio version of this lecture includes a Question and Answer period.