Professor emeritus Twight recognized in The Independent Review

The Independent Review is a quarterly academic journal on the study of political economy, and the recognition comes in the magazine's Winter 2025/26 issue to mark the book's 50th anniversary. Twight also served as a co-editor of the Independent Review during her career.

"It is a great honor for any scholar to have their work be subject to a symposium, and especially see the work's relevance 50 years after its initial publication," said Allen Dalton, professor emeritus for the Department of Economics. "Charlotte's 'America's Emerging Fascist Economy' warned of how the basic private property, profit-tested betterment economy of America was being increasingly twisted to serve the interests of nationalistic and monopolistic interests. It is a warning that we need, now more than ever, to heed."

Twight's research shed light on how governments expand their power by intentionally increasing the "transaction costs" of public resistance. Through her theory of political manipulation, she revealed how the state uses complexity and dependency to gradually erode individual liberty.

In December 2003 the Brandt Foundation established Boise State's first named professorship for tenured or tenure-track faculty, selecting Twight as the Brandt Professor of Free Enterprise Capitalism. The professorship includes funding for the annual Brandt Foundation Lectures, which bring distinguished speakers to the university. Twight retired in spring 2018.

"As the Brandt Professor of Free Enterprise Capitalism, Charlotte was a tireless advocate for the principles of Private Property, Individual Responsibility and Limited Government," said Bob Rathbone, Chairman of the Brandt Foundation Board of Trustees.

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