Maria Pia Paganelli is professor of Economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, and 18th century monetary theories. She wrote The Routledge Guidebook to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith and Adam Smith and Rousseau. She served as the vice president of the History of Economic Society and as the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. She is the current president of the International Adam Smith Society.

Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and coauthor of the Simon Abundance Index. He specializes in globalization and global well‐being and politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. Tupy is the coauthor, with Gale Pooley, of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet (2022) and, with Ronald Bailey, of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting (2020). Tupy received his B.A. in international relations and classics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of St. Andrews in Great Britain.

Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Research Fellow of the Law & Economics Center, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. In 2020-21 he served as the Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 130 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He has testified several times before Congress and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post.