Clifford F. Thies is a Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University. He is the author, co-author, contributor and editor of more than a hundred books, encyclopaedia entries and articles in scholarly journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Private Enterprise and is a former Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation. He is a past president of the faculty senates of Shenandoah University and the University of Baltimore. He also served in the US Army and the Army Reserve.