American Economist, political scholar, and Libertarian candidate for President (1996, 2000)

Author of numerous books, including ''How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World'' (1973, 1998) [ISBN 0965603679], ''Why Government Doesn't Work'' (1995) [ISBN 0965603601], ''The Great Libertarian Offer'' (2000) [ISBN 0965603695], and ''Fail-Safe Investing'' (2000) [ISBN 031226321X]

His website includes a lot of very insightful (IMO) articles about the policies of the US government.  It can be found at http://www.harrybrowne.org/.