D. T. Armentano is Professor of Economics at the University of Hartford. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. His teaching areas include antitrust economics and law, government regulation of business, energy economics, money and banking and business and society in the MBA program. He has lectured widely to business and academic audiences, both in the United States and abroad. He has authored many books on economics, the most recent of which is Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure. He serves on the advisory boards for the Center For the Defense of Free Enterprise and the Council for a Competitive Economy. Dr. Armentano was a recipient of the 1980 Leavey Foundation Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education presented by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
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