Dr. Eamon Butler, the director and co-founder of Britain's leading free-market policy think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, will be blogging weekly for American Institute for Growth. 

Eamonn is a leading author and broadcaster on economics and social issues. He discusses politics and economics with a wry sense of humor and an insightful manner.

Eamonn writes on a wide range of subjects – not just economics and finance, but politics, psychology and social affairs too.

His books include easy-to-read basic primers on important economists such as Adam Smith (author of the 1776 classic, The Wealth of Nations), Nobel laureates Milton Friedman and F A Hayek, and the leading Austrian School thinker Ludwig von Mises. He has also written a short, popular introduction to how markets work, called, appropriately if immodestly, The Best Book on the Market.

Eamonn is also co-author (with Robert S Schuettinger) of the much-acclaimed Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls, which, he says, traces the history of politicians’ economic incompetence back to the age of Hammurabi of Babylon.

The first of Eammon's weekly blogs will be posted Tuesday morning.