Powell, Benjamin: - Benjamin Powell is a Professor of Economics at Rawls College of Business Administration and the Executive Director at the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute He is the co-author of Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press 2020) and the Amazon best-selling Socialism Sucks: Two Economist Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World (2019). His research on sweatshops has been reported in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.