Jeffrey Tucker

While studying at George Mason, Tucker attended a journalism program in Washington, D.C., where he became a volunteer at the Washington office of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.[8]

In the late 1980s, he went to work for Ron Paul,[8] as an assistant to editor Lew Rockwell, who produced political and investment newsletters on behalf of the former congressman. In 2008, during Paul's campaign for President, those newsletters became the topic of a controversy about racially charged comments some of them contained.[9][10][11]

From 1997 to 2011 Tucker worked for the Mises Institute, of which Rockwell was a co-founder, as editorial vice president and editor for the institute's website, Mises.org. From 1999 to 2011 he also contributed scholarly efforts and humorous essays to LewRockwell.com.[8]

In late 2011 he was hired by Addison Wiggin as publisher and executive editor of Laissez Faire Books,[12][13] and worked in that capacity until 2016. As of 2017, he remains a contributor to LFB.

Tucker was appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2013,[14] speaking at FEE's seminars and writing for its publication The Freeman. From 2015 to 2017, he was FEE's Director of Content.[15][16]

Tucker became Editorial Director of the American Institute for Economic Research in late 2017.[1]

In 2013, Tucker began writing about the information-based cryptocurrency Bitcoin.[17] He has been interviewed on the subject by Reason,[18] Forbes,[19] Fox Business Channel,[20] and RT.[21] Tucker's 2015 book Bit by Bit is devoted to Bitcoin and other products of the "information economy". In 2018 he became a research affiliate of the Blockchain Innovation Hub, a study center at RMIT University.[3]

Tucker has appeared as a speaker at numerous conferences on Austrian school economics, and libertarianism,[22] including FreedomFest conferences,[23] events of the Free State Project, and the 2016 and 2018 Libertarian Party national convention.

In 2013, Tucker founded and became the CEO (under the title "Chief Liberty Officer") of Liberty.me, a "social network and online publishing platform for the liberty minded", which launched a successful Indiegogo fundraising campaign in 2013 and began operation in 2014.[2]

• Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty (2017): Addresses that the threat of collectivism comes from the right as well as the far left
• Henry Hazlitt: Giant For Liberty (with Llewellyn H. Rockwell and Murray N. Rothbard, 1994, Ludwig von Mises Institute, ISBN 978-0-945466-16-1): an annotated bibliography of the works of Henry Hazlitt. A Foundation for Economic Education review described the book, which "includes citations of a novel, works on literary criticism, treatises on economics and moral philosophy, several edited volumes, some 16 other books and many chapters in books, plus articles, commentaries, and reviews," as "an apt eulogy of Henry Hazlitt."[30]
• Sing Like a Catholic (2009, Church Music Association of America, ISBN 978-1-60743-722-2): essays on church music
• Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo (2010, Ludwig von Mises Institute, ISBN 978-1-933550-89-3)
• It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes (2011, Ludwig von Mises Institute, ISBN 978-1-61016-194-7)
• Hack Your Shower Head: and 10 Other Ways to Get Big Government out of Your Home (2012, Laissez Faire Books, ISBN 978-1-62129-063-6)
• A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age (2012, Laissez Faire Books, ISBN 978-1-62129-041-4): on the effects of small business regulation
• Liberty.me: Freedom Is a Do-It-Yourself Project (2014, Liberty.me, ISBN 978-1-63069-032-8)
• Bit by Bit: How P2P is Freeing the World (2015, e-book)
• Advice for Young, Unemployed Workers (2015, pamphlet, Foundation for Economic Education, ISBN 978-1-57246-039-3)

Four of Tucker's books have been published in Spanish translations, including the following:[31]

• Milagros del sector privado y crímenes del sector público (2014, ISBN 978-84-7209-638-7)
• Una bella anarquía (2014, ISBN 978-1-909870-15-4)

He has written for, among others, Journal of Libertarian Studies, The Wall Street Journal, The Journal of Commerce, National Review, The Freeman, Catholic World Report, Crisis, Sacred Music, Newsweek, and Chronicles.