Scott S. Powell
Scott Powell has enjoyed a career split between theory and practice with thirty-five years of experience as an entrepreneur and founder of two companies. He has been a media fellow and visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution for six years, and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute since 2012. He has taught international economics at the graduate school level, been a guest on over 300 national radio and TV shows, and published over 450 articles on subjects that include the US Constitution, law, economics, business, domestic and foreign policy, culture, and religion in the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, USA Today, Barron’s Financial, The Federalist, American Spectator, American Thinker, Townhall, and dozens of other newspapers and journals in the US, Japan, and Europe.
Scott’s book, Covert Cadre, was hailed by National Review as “the most important book of the 1988 election year.” Powell has been called on twice to provide expert witness testimony regarding presidential cabinet nominations—once for the Senate Armed Services Committee and some years later for the Select Committee on Intelligence at the time of a controversial nominee for CIA Director—who ended up withdrawing his nomination.
Following the 2008 mortgage and banking collapse, he wrote the editorial in Barron’s Financial about what happened and why regarding moral failings that led to the Great Recession.
Scott Powell graduated from the University of Chicago with honors (BA and MA) and received his PhD in political and economic theory from Boston University, writing his dissertation on the determinants of entrepreneurial activity and economic growth. This is his fourth book.
