Gary Lee Wolfram is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. degree in Economics. He has served as Senior Economist for the Michigan State Senate Republican Policy Staff, Deputy State Treasurer of Taxation and Economic Policy for the State of Michigan, and Chief of Staff and Senior Economist for Congressman Nick Smith (7th District of Michigan).
Dr. Wolfram has taught at the University of California, Davis, Mount Holyoke College, Washington State University, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is now the George Munson Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College and is the author of Towards a Free Society: An Introduction to Markets and the Political System, “The Newest Threats to Classical Liberal Arts Curriculum,” “Private Colleges Under Siege,” “The Role of Government in Regulation of Monopoly,” “Welfare Reform in Michigan,” “Resolved: That Government Should Play a Significant Role in the Funding of the Arts - Negative,” and “Does Anyone Really Want the State to Set Prices?”
Click on How Government Endangers Independent Education to read Dr. Wolfram’s article about the threat to independent education, published by the CATO Institute.
He is President of the Hillsdale Policy Group, a public policy consulting firm, a Trustee of Lake Superior State University, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Dumont Policy Institute, the Board of Scholars of the Mackinac Center, and the National Board of Scholars of the Buckeye Institute.
Dr. Wolfram has been honored with the Distinguished Economics Professor Award by the UM-D Organization of Economics Students.
Gary Lee Wolfram is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. degree in Economics. He has served as Senior Economist for the Michigan State Senate Republican Policy Staff, Deputy State Treasurer of Taxation and Economic Policy for the State of Michigan, and Chief of Staff and Senior Economist for Congressman Nick Smith (7th District of Michigan).