Dr. Murray Sabrin joined the faculty of the Anisfield school of Business of Ramapo College of New Jersey in 1985 and retired on July 01, 2020, as Professor of Finance. Over his career he taught several courses including Corporate Finance, Securities and Investments, and Financial History of the United States. On January 25, 2021, the board of trustees awarded Dr. Sabrin Emeritus status for his scholarship and professional contributions during his 35-year career.
In 2007, the Sabrins made a $250,000 gift to Ramapo College to establish the Sabrin Center for Free Enterprise in the Anisfield School of Business (www.ramapo.edu/sabrincenter), and they made a $50,000 donation to establish the Sabrin Center study room in the Peter F. Mercer Learning Commons that is scheduled to open in the fall 2021.
Dr. Sabrin is considered a “public intellectual” for writing essays about the economy for The Record, Star-Ledger, Trenton Times, and the Asbury Park Press. He has been a frequent guest on New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut talk radio shows and on national podcasts. His essays have also appeared in Commerce Magazine, Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Privatization Review among other scholarly and popular publications.
Recently, Dr. Sabrin’s book, Universal Medical Care: From Conception to End-of-Life: The Case for a Single Payer System, was published, outlining his vision for a single payer approach where the individual or family is in charge of their medical decisions. The “individual” single-payer system is based on restoring the doctor-patient relationship as well as other reforms. Sabrin is the author of Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty, a blueprint to create a tax-free America in the 21st century, and Why the Federal Reserve Sucks: It Causes Inflation, Recessions, Bubbles and Enriches the One Percent, which is available on Amazon.
In 2003, Dr. Sabrin was invited to serve as a founding trustee of the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative (BVMI) located in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he served until 2008.
Murray Sabrin arrived in America from West Germany at the age of two with his parents and older brother on August 06, 1949, and became a U.S. citizen in June 1959. His parents were the only members of their respective families to survive the Holocaust. The Sabrin family moved from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to the Bronx in 1953, where they lived until 1977; then he and his wife Florence moved to New Jersey, where they have lived until they moved to Florida in June 2021.
Dr. Sabrin was graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1964. He has a BA in history, geography, and social studies education from Hunter College; an MA in social studies education from Lehman College; and a PhD in economic geography from Rutgers University. Sabrin is only one of two individuals who had the honor of having the late Austrian school economist, historian, and philosopher Murray N. Rothbard serve as a member of his dissertation committee. His dissertation, “The Spatial Incidence of Inflation in the United States 1967–1971: An Economic-Geographic Perspective,” was reviewed by a University of Chicago professor who stated, “You are to be congratulated on the theoretical and critical depth of your thesis.”
In 1997, he was the New Jersey Libertarian Party’s nominee for governor and made political history when he raised sufficient funds to participate in the state’s matching fund program, which required him to participate in three debates with the two major party candidates. He also has sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.