Todd Myers

Contributor

Dr. Todd Myers is chair and professor of political economy at Grossmont College and lecturer for the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics at San Diego State University. Before joining academia, Dr. Myers worked in economic development, publishing, state government, and educational and national security consulting.

He began his career as a Ronald Reagan Fellow serving a mentorship under the direction of the Honorable Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. He has served on the educational advisory council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, as a Henry Salvatore Fellow with the Heritage Foundation, and a Lehrman Fellow with Princeton’s James Madison’s Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

He currently serves on the San Diego Center for Economic Education’s advisory board. Dr. Myers has research interests in international political economy and political thought.

Liberal Heritage and ‘Political Philosophy: The Basics’

Bas van der Vossen's 2024 book on political philosophy is an excellent, if incomplete, primer for the interested everyman.

Liberal Heritage and ‘Political Philosophy: The Basics’

Justifying Liberalism in Singapore

"At the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, the advocates of human liberty will need to contend with meritocratic technocracy if liberty is to be preserved. Singapore is at the…

Justifying Liberalism in Singapore

Deescalate Conflict in Ukraine

"Only the stupidest of blunders could bring the Americans fully on to team Ukraine, and Ukrainians suffering from the aftermath of Euromaidan understand the fruits of political positioning without the…

Deescalate Conflict in Ukraine

The Green Economy, Interethnic Conflict, Corporate Mining, and West Papua

"It is strange how President Biden and other world leaders' desires to save the planet from global warming can be the impetus for local environmental crises that are more immediate…

The Green Economy, Interethnic Conflict, Corporate Mining, and West Papua

In Search of Humility

"Our lack of humility about what we can know and the worth of our value judgments in transforming reality is a problem in public life. Just about everyone would be…

In Search of Humility

How to Compete with the Chinese

"Will the search for technological supremacy lead us to embrace China's vision of governance by a technologically sophisticated bureaucracy, and what does that mean for individual rights and dignity?" ~…

How to Compete with the Chinese

Russia’s Africa Policy: Geopolitics and Commercial Interests

"The United States must find robust relationships built upon mutual benefits that are in accordance with our values and the values of our current and potential partners. We must mind…

Russia’s Africa Policy: Geopolitics and Commercial Interests

The Curse of Resources, Coups, and Business

"Unruly ambitions degrade the institutions and norms that would contribute to successful negotiations with multinational firms and investors essential for the development of the economy." ~ Todd Myers

The Curse of Resources, Coups, and Business

The Logic of Civic Irresponsibility and the War on Terror

"Perhaps Coyne and Hall's book is a step in the social learning necessary to take a step back from policies that have made us poorer and less secure by educating…

The Logic of Civic Irresponsibility and the War on Terror

The Tigray War and the National Interests of Ethiopia and the United States

"Voluntary exchange is the path to wealth. War and predation are the paths to poverty and perdition. The peoples of Ethiopia must choose, for no one else can generate the…

The Tigray War and the National Interests of Ethiopia and the United States