1. Jeffrey Albert Tucker is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin.
23 Facts About Jeffrey Tucker
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Jeffrey Tucker is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research affiliate of the Blockchain Innovation Hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technogy, and an Acton Institute associate.
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Jeffrey Tucker studied economics as an undergraduate at Texas Tech University and Howard Payne University, where he first encountered the literature of the Austrian School.
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Jeffrey Tucker later enrolled as a graduate student in economics at George Mason University.
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Jeffrey Tucker was said to have helped Rockwell write the newsletters.
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From 1997 to 2011, Jeffrey 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.
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The SPLC report said Jeffrey Tucker was listed as a founding member on the league's website, but that Jeffrey Tucker denied being a member.
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In late 2011, Jeffrey Tucker was hired by Addison Wiggin as publisher and executive editor of Laissez Faire Books, and worked in that capacity until 2016.
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Jeffrey Tucker was appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2013, speaking at FEE's seminars and writing for its publication The Freeman.
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Jeffrey Tucker became Editorial Director of the American Institute for Economic Research in late 2017.
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In 2013, Jeffrey Tucker wrote a primer about the cryptocurrency Bitcoin called "Bitcoin for Beginners", in which he described it as solving the problems of double spending and single point of failure.
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Jeffrey Tucker has been interviewed on the subject by Reason at the 2013 Freedom Fest and Fox Business Channel.
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In 2018, Jeffrey Tucker endorsed Liberland, a micronation claimed on a disputed sandbank between Croatia and Serbia that accepts the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum.
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Jeffrey Tucker has appeared as a speaker at conferences on Austrian school economics, and libertarianism including FreedomFest conferences, events of the Free State Project, and the 2016 and 2018 Libertarian Party national convention.
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In 2013, Jeffrey Tucker founded and became the CEO of Liberty.
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Jeffrey Tucker blogged in opposition to social distancing measures and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, framing them as subservience to "arbitrary and ignorant authority".
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In 2020, Jeffrey Tucker helped organize the Great Barrington Declaration, signed at AIER, which advocated the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.
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In 2021, Jeffrey Tucker founded the nonprofit Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, a think tank that opposes various measures against COVID-19, including masking and vaccine mandates.
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Senior roles were given to Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, two of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which Jeffrey Tucker helped to organize.
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Jeffrey Tucker has referred to war as an "alluring illusion" and has been critical of American interventionist foreign policy.
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Formerly a Southern Baptist, Jeffrey Tucker is a convert to traditionalist Catholicism.
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Jeffrey Tucker was managing editor of the Church Music Association of America journal Sacred Music from 2006 to 2014.
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Jeffrey Tucker 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.