Benjamin A. Rogge, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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economist
Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1920
Date of Death: 17-Nov-1980
Profession: economist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Benjamin A. Rogge
- Benjamin A.
- Rogge (June 18, 1920 – November 17, 1980) was an American economist, college administrator, and libertarian writer, speaker and foundation advisor.
- Rogge received an A.B.
- degree from Hastings College and an M.A.
- from the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
- Rogge received his PhD in economics from Northwestern.
- At Wabash College, Rogge taught in the summer Institute for Professional Development, in addition to his usual teaching in economics.
- Rogge co-authored an economics principles textbook with John Van Sickle.
- One strength of the text is the account that it gives of Joseph Schumpeter's process of creative destruction.
- Rogge helped organize a series of lectures by Milton Friedman at Wabash that were eventually developed into Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom book.
- Much later, Rogge participated in a brainstorming session for Friedman's Free to Choose television series.
- Liberty Fund was founded with money from Pierre Goodrich, who sought advice from Rogge during the Fund's early years.
- Rogge served for many years as a Liberty Fund trustee.
- Thomas Sowell gives Rogge credit for encouraging him to write a book on economics and race.
- Rogge also was a frequent presenter at the seminars of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).
- FEE's founder, Leonard Read, thought of Rogge as Read's eventual successor, an outcome prevented by Read outliving Rogge.
- An extended (but somewhat grainy) video clip of a Rogge FEE lecture on "Competition and Monopoly" on YouTube illustrates the dry wit that made him a popular speaker.
- Rogge attended 13 meetings of the influential international Mont Pelerin Society.
- Rogge helped produce, and narrated, a documentary on Adam Smith that was funded by Liberty Fund.
- Rogge wrote the introduction to a collection of quotations from Adam Smith.
- A collection of Rogge's speeches, often on topics in economics or education, was published under the title Can Capitalism Survive? Wabash College, where he taught for many years, established a speaker series in his honor.
- Rogge's archives are mainly housed at the Hoover Institute on the campus of Stanford University.
- A posthumous collection of Rogge's speeches and essays has appeared under the title A Maverick's Defense of Freedom.
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