Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research, and Contributing Editor at Law & Liberty. The author of 17 books—including The Commercial Society (Rowman & Littlefield), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (Edward Elgar), Becoming Europe (Encounter), Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (Regnery), and most recently, The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World (Encounter), as well as over 700 essays, articles, reviews, and opinion-pieces—he writes regularly on political economy, finance, classical liberalism, American conservatism, Western civilization, and natural law theory. Two of his books have been shortlisted for Conservative Book of the Year and one has been shortlisted for the Hayek Prize. He is an Affiliate Scholar at the Acton Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize by The Lynde and Harry Bradely Foundation. This Prize honors scholars and practitioners whose accomplishments reflect the Bradley Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. He can be followed on Twitter @drsamuelgregg.