Dwight R. Lee is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and the former William J. O'Neil Endowed Chair in Global Markets and Freedom and is currently a senior fellow at the O'Neil Center in the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego, and has taught at the University of Georgia, Washington University, George Mason University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University of Colorado, and San Diego State college.