MISES - Key Persons
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- Founder of the Austrian School
In this excerpt from his brilliant Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, Guido Hülsmann illustrates how Carl Menger's experience as a financial journalist led to his developing the revolutionary foundations of the Austrian school of economics.
Christopher A. Hartwell is Professor of Financial Systems Resilience at Bournemouth University (UK), Professor of...
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- Media and Content Producer
David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and editor of the Mises Review.
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- Chief Economist
- Honorary Professor
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- Economist at Grove City College
Dr. Tracy Miller, an economist at Grove City College was a graduate student of Gary Becker at the University of Chicago. Dr. Miller provides a sketch of Becker's contributions as well as some personal ...
Eric Maskin has made some extravagant claims for the significance of Paul Samuelson.
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- Author
- Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University
Gary M. Galles is a Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University and an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is also a research fellow at the Independent Institute, a member of the Foundation for Economic Education faculty network, and a member of the Heartland Institute Board of Policy Advisors.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a compelling figure: bold in his arguments, unstinting in his criticisms, and razor sharp with language and definitions. This interview goes in depth on a variety of subjects, many of which he seldom discusses publicly.
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- Author, Journalist, Editor, Reviewer, Economist, Has Gained Renown in at Least Three Areas
Henry Hazlitt, author, journalist, editor, reviewer, economist, has gained renown in at least three areas: as a popularizer of sound economic thinking, as a critic of John Maynard Keynes, and as a contributor to moral philosophy.
James Champlin, a 19th-century critic of protectionism, anticipated many of the free-trade insights of the Austrian school.
James Fenimore Cooper, America's first great national novelist, widely influenced our literature and Americans' sense of history in the 19th century. However, Cooper also wrote about political issues, particularly in The American Democrat (1838), whose themes reflect America's founders,...
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- Network and Systems Administrator
John Maynard Keynes's supporters still insist that he was a mild and benign liberal. In truth, Keynes supported the blood-soaked Soviet regime and called himself a socialist.
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- Academic Vice President and Provost
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Vice President, Operations
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, and editor of LewRockwell.com.
Louis Michael Spadaro, Ph.D., the founding dean of the Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration, died on May 3 at his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He was 94. Spadaro, a New York City native, joined the Fordham faculty in 1939, and as professor and dean he founded the Graduate School of Business Administration at Lincoln Center. "Dr. Spadaro pioneered the first years of the Graduate School of Business Administration, and his legacy lives on in the achievements of our students, the success of our faculty and the growth of our programs and global reach," said GBA Dean Howard P. Tuckman, Ph.D. Spadaro was an alumnus of City College of New York and New York University, where he earned his doctorate in economics and became part of the Austrian School of Economics, a movement that included notable free-market libertarian theorists such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Hans Sennholz and Murray Rothbard.
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- Scholar, Teacher, and Hero
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- Research Fellow at the Reason Foundation
Marius Gustavson is a research fellow at the Reason Foundation, where he examines economic issues, including...
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- Senior Fellow
- Peterson - Luddy Chair
Mark Thornton is the Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, and has authored seven books and is a frequent guest on national radio shows.
Mark Thornton explains why there's nothing natural, real, or sustainable about the current Yellen boom.
Mark Thornton joins Ryan and Tho on Radio Rothbard to take a closer look at the state of the US dollar and how price...
Milton Friedman died today at the age of 94. His passing is a milestone. Friedman stood out as a leading figure in the fight for limited government and personal freedom in the mid twentieth century.
Of course, libertarianism has in some ways developed beyond the writings of Friedman. Today...
Per Bylund, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Johnny D...
Richard Cobden knew that free trade was the natural result of self-ownership and voluntary arrangements, which produce justice by preventing government-sponsored robbery of some by others. He recognized that it broke down privilege and barriers hindering economic progress and replaced them with mutual benefits. In a world far too distant from that ideal, we should remember his wisdom that "the emancipation of commerce" would be "a beacon for other nations" that would expand liberty, better protect property, and lead to peace, the trifecta that best enables economic and moral progress. As Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman said, celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of Cobden's birth:
Cobden spent his life in pulling down those artificial restrictions and obstructions…not merely to commerce, but also to peace and good will, and mutual understanding; yes, and obstructions to liberty and good government at home.…[H]e exploded the economic basis of class government and class subjection.
Hunt Tooley teaches History at Austin College. He is the author of ...
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- Editorial and Content Manager
Toshio Murata was a student of Mises in New York, and translated Human Action into Japanese. He is almost single-handedly responsible for creating an Austrian/Misesian movement in Japan. Marc Abela of Mises Japan sends us this update, along with some...
William Faulkner (1897-1962) was the third American to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This was in 1949 and...