Victor V. Claar

Victor V. Claar, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, where he holds the BB&T Distinguished Professorship in Free Enterprise. He is also an Affiliate Scholar in Economics at the Acton Institute, and a member of both the Mont Pelerin Society and the Philadelphia Society.

In addition to being a Fulbright Scholar, Professor Claar has a long, impressive record of publications including his influential book, Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices, now in its tenth printing and recently translated into Chinese. One reviewer said of the book's authors, "they demonstrate an impressive breadth of vision [and] deftly move from the big picture and macroeconomics to the care for the individual and restoring hope for the least of these."

While you may have heard that economics was once dubbed the "dismal science," Professor Claar's work demonstrates that this field is quite the opposite, especially when it does what Professor Claar does: combine sobering analysis and Christian principles to offer a vision of hope.