Author: Lawrence ReedLawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed is President Emeritus and Humphreys Family Senior Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Reed served as president of FEE from 2008-2019 after serving previously as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to that, he was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught Economics full-time and chaired the Department of Economics at Northwood University in Michigan from 1977 to 1984. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978). He holds two honorary doctorates, one from Central Michigan University (Public Administration—1993) and Northwood University (Laws—2008). He is a native of Pennsylvania and a 30-year resident of Michigan, and now resides in Newnan, Georgia.