Dr. P. J. Hill

Dr. P. J. Hill has been on the Business/Economics faculty at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois since 1985, having taught previously at Purdue, the University of Iowa, and Montana State University. He is also a Senior Associate of PERC (Political Economic Research Center), a think tank located in Bozeman Montana, which analyzes environmental and resource issues from a market perspective. Hill received his bachelor's degree from Montana State University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Hill's research and publications have been concentrated in four areas, property rights theory, U.S. institutional and constitutional history, environmental policy, and religion and economics. He has authored numerous articles and his books include The Birth of a Transfer Societ with Terry Anderson (Hoover Press, 1980), Growth and Welfare in the American Past, with Douglas C. North and Terry Anderson (Prentice Hall, 1983, and Eco-Sanity: A Common Sense Guide to Environmentalism, with Joseph Bast and Richard Rue (Madison Books, 1994). Dr. Hill also served as an advisor to the Bulgarian government in its transition to a market economy and had edited a book on privatization around the world.