Murray Sabrin (born December 21, 1946) is a professor of
finance
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...
in the Anisfield School of Business at
Ramapo College and a
perennial candidate for public office in
New Jersey.
Family, education, and affiliations
Sabrin was born in
Bad Wörishofen,
Germany on December 21, 1946. His parents, being of
Jewish ancestry, were among the only people in his family to survive
the Holocaust.
Sabrin has said "during World War Two, my father, a Jewish resistance fighter in Lithuania, fought for his freedom and his life with a gun. I'm alive today because of him." Sabrin arrived in the U.S. with his older brother and parents in August 1949 and became a
United States citizen in 1959.
He lived with his wife, Florence, in
Fort Lee, New Jersey.
He moved to
Florida in 2021.
Sabrin has a
Ph.D. in
geography from
Rutgers University, an
M.A. in social studies education from
Lehman College
Lehman College is a public college in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehma ...
and a
B.A. in history, geography and social studies education from
Hunter College
Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
.
[ ] He has worked in commercial real estate sales and marketing, personal
portfolio management, and economic research.
Sabrin is the former executive director of the Center for Business and Public Policy at Ramapo College,
[ ] and is the author of ''Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty''.
Policy advocacy and opinion writing
Sabrin's articles have appeared in ''
The Record
The Record may refer to:
Music
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'' (
), ''
The Star Ledger'', ''Trenton Times'', and ''
Asbury Park Press
The ''Asbury Park Press'' is a daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey and has the third largest circulation in the state. It has been owned by Gannett since 1997.
Its reporting staff has been awarded numerous national hon ...
''. His essays have also appeared in ''
Commerce Magazine
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...
'', ''
Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business'', ''Privatization Review'', and
LewRockwell.com. Sabrin is a contributing columnist for NJBIZ
and writes a column on the economy for ''
START-IT magazine''. He is a regular columnist for ''NJVoices''
and ''USADaily''.
["Sabrin's Curriculum Vitae"](_blank)
, ''MurraySabrin.com'', Accessed March 5, 2008.
He is writing a book on politics, the economy and culture titled ''Velvet Fascism: How the Political Elites Transformed America''.
Political career
Sabrin was the 1997
Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey, and the first
third party candidate to receive
matching funds
Matching funds are funds that are set to be paid in proportion to funds available from other sources. Matching fund payments usually arise in situations of charity or public good. The terms cost sharing, in-kind, and matching can be used interc ...
and participate in three official debates.
He garnered 5% of the vote in
the election, and the race went to
Christine Todd Whitman
Christine Temple Whitman (née Todd; born September 26, 1946) is an American politician and author who served as the 50th governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001 and as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration o ...
. In 2008 Sabrin ran as a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for the
United States Senate representing
New Jersey, where he faced Republican state Senator
Joseph Pennacchio and former Republican Congressman Dick Zimmer. Promoting
limited government and
nonintervention
Non-interventionism or non-intervention is a political philosophy or national foreign policy doctrine that opposes interference in the domestic politics and affairs of other countries but, in contrast to isolationism, is not necessarily opposed t ...
ism, he received endorsements from the
Republican Liberty Caucus and
U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, activist, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, as well ...
. He garnered 14% of the vote, behind Zimmer (46%) and Pennacchio (40%). He sought the Republican nomination to the same seat in 2014, but lost to
Jeff Bell.
In January 2018, he announced his intention to
run for the U.S. Senate again, this time under the
New Jersey Libertarian Party.
Political positions
Abortion
Sabrin is
anti-abortion
Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in respons ...
.
During the
2014 election, he wrote a letter criticizing Senate candidate Brian Goldberg on his pro-choice position.
Foreign policy
Sabrin is an outspoken supporter of a
non-interventionist foreign policy.
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References
External links
New Jersey-based regional website*
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1946 births
Living people
20th-century American economists
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American economists
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American columnists
American male non-fiction writers
American people of German-Jewish descent
American political writers
Candidates in the 2018 United States Senate elections
Economists from New Jersey
Jewish American writers
Libertarian economists
Lehman College alumni
New Jersey Libertarians
New Jersey Republicans
Non-interventionism
People from Fort Lee, New Jersey
Ramapo College faculty
Rutgers University alumni
Writers from New Jersey
21st-century American Jews
Candidates in the 1997 United States elections
Candidates in the 2014 United States elections
Candidates in the 2008 United States elections