Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse joined Stanford University’s Hoover Institution as a Research Fellow in 1997. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She writes about the family and the free society. Her book, Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work shows why the family is the necessary building block for a free society and why so many modern attempted substitutes for the family do not work. She was a founding member of the Academic Advisory Boards of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, the Institute for Justice and the Women’s Freedom Network. She currently lives in Vista CA, where she pursues her primary vocation as wife and mother, combined with an avocation of writing and lecturing. She and her husband are the parents of an adopted child, a birth child, and two foster children.