Gary Wolfram is President of Hillsdale Policy Group, Ltd, the George Munson Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Lake Superior State University. He is the author of Towards a Free Society: An Introduction to Political Economy and has published numerous works on public policy issues. He has served in numerous policy positions, including Michigan's Deputy State Treasurer, as a member of the Michigan State Board of Education, and Congressman Nick Smith's Washington Chief-of-Staff. Dr. Wolfram received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and has taught at the University of California at Davis, Mount Holyoke College, Washington State University, and the University of Michigan at Dearborn.