List of Austrian School economists
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Economist
An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

s aligned with the Austrian School
Austrian School
The Austrian School of economics is a heterodox school of economic thought. It advocates methodological individualism in interpreting economic developments , the theory that money is non-neutral, the theory that the capital structure of economies consists of heterogeneous goods that have...

 are sometimes colloquially called "the Austrians" even though few hold Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n citizenship, and not all economists from Austria subscribe to the ideas of the Austrian School.

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  • Benjamin Anderson
    Benjamin Anderson
    Benjamin McAlester Anderson, Jr. was an American economist in the Austrian tradition of Carl Menger.-Early life and education:...

  • William L. Anderson
    William L. Anderson
    William L. Anderson is an author and an associate professor of economics at Frostburg State University in Maryland. He is also an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy as well as for the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama....

  • William Barnett II
  • Walter Block
    Walter Block
    Walter Edward Block is a free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School of economics.-Personal history and education:...

  • Peter Boettke
    Peter Boettke
    Peter J. Boettke is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Boettke was born in Rahway, New Jersey to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to Pennsylvania to attend Thiel College in Greenville and later Grove City College. He became interested in...

  • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
    Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
    Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of the Austrian School of economics.-Biography:...

  • Donald J. Boudreaux
    Donald J. Boudreaux
    Donald J. Boudreaux is professor of economics at George Mason University. He served as chairman from August 2001 and stepped down in August 2009. He previously served as president of the libertarian think tank Foundation for Economic Education, a post he accepted in May 1997...

  • Gene Callahan
  • Tony Carilli
  • Christopher Coyne
  • Daniel D'Amico
  • Gregory Dempster
  • Thomas DiLorenzo
    Thomas DiLorenzo
    Thomas James DiLorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola University Maryland. He is an adherent of the Austrian School of Economics. He is a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and an associated scholar of the Abbeville Institute...

  • Richard Ebeling
    Richard Ebeling
    Richard M. Ebeling is an American libertarian author, and was president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 2003 to 2008....

  • Karel Engliš
  • Marc Faber
    Marc Faber
    -Background:Faber was born in Zürich and schooled in Geneva, Switzerland, where he raced for the Swiss National Ski Team. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics magna cum laude...

  • Antal E. Fekete
    Antal E. Fekete
    Antal E. Fekete, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, is a proponent of the gold standard and critic of the current monetary system.His theories fall into the school of economic thought led by Carl Menger...

  • Frank Fetter
    Frank Fetter
    Frank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian School. Fetter's treatise, The Principles of Economics, contributed to an increased American interest in the Austrian School, including the theories of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich...


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  • Roger Garrison
    Roger Garrison
    Roger Garrison is a professor of economics at Auburn University, Alabama and adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute....

  • David Gordon
    David Gordon (philosopher)
    David Gordon is a libertarian philosopher and intellectual historian influenced by Rothbardian views of economics. He is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and editor of "The Mises Review."...

  • Gottfried von Haberler
    Gottfried Haberler
    Gottfried von Haberler was an economist. He worked in particular on international trade....

  • Friedrich Hayek
    Friedrich Hayek
    Friedrich August Hayek CH , born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought...

  • Henry Hazlitt
    Henry Hazlitt
    Henry Stuart Hazlitt was an American economist, philosopher, literary critic and journalist for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times...

  • Robert Higgs
    Robert Higgs
    Robert Higgs is an American economic historian, economist combining the insights from the Public Choice, Institutional and Austrian schools of economics, and a classical liberal or libertarian in political and legal theory and public policy...

  • Randall G. Holcombe
    Randall G. Holcombe
    Randall Gregory Holcombe is an American economist, the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He argued that private defense agencies could form cartels and oppress people without fear of competition.-References:...

  • Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an Austrian School economist of the anarcho-capitalist tradition, and a Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.-Academic career:...

  • Steven Horwitz
    Steven Horwitz
    Steven Horwitz is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Horwitz was born in Detroit, Michigan to Ronald and Carol Horwitz. He was raised in Oak Park, Michigan and graduated from Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan in 1981. He graduated cum laude with an A.B...

  • William Harold Hutt
    William Harold Hutt
    William Harold "Bill" Hutt was an English economist who described himself as a classical liberal, although some identify him more closely with the Austrian School.-Early life:...

  • Ubiratan Iorio
  • Israel Kirzner
    Israel Kirzner
    Israel Meir Kirzner is a leading economist in the Austrian School.-Early life:The son of a well-known rabbi and Talmudist, Kirzner was born in London, England and came to the United States via South Africa.-Education:After studying with the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1947-48 and...

  • Peter G. Klein
    Peter G. Klein
    Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the...

  • Ludwig Lachmann
    Ludwig Lachmann
    Ludwig Lachmann was a German economist who became a member of and important contributor to the Austrian School.-Education and career:...

  • Don Lavoie
    Don Lavoie
    Don C. Lavoie was an Austrian school economist. He worked at the Cato Institute. He wrote two books on the problem of economic calculation. His first book on this subject was Rivalry and Central Planning . This book stressed the importance of the process of competitive rivalry in markets...

  • Henri Lepage
  • Peter Leeson
    Peter Leeson
    Peter T. Leeson is BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University He authored The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, a book in which he uses rational choice theory to examine the economic conditions and incentives that influenced pirate...

  • Roderick Long
    Roderick Long
    Roderick Tracy Long is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University and libertarian anarchist blogger. He also serves as a senior scholar for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, an editor of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, director and president of the Molinari Institute, and an advisory panel...

  • Fritz Machlup
    Fritz Machlup
    Fritz Machlup was an Austrian-American economist. He was notable for being one of the first economists to examine knowledge as an economic resource....

  • Carl Menger
    Carl Menger
    Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility, which contested the cost-of-production theories of value, developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.- Biography :Menger...

  • Ludwig von Mises
    Ludwig von Mises
    Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...

  • Robert P. Murphy
    Robert P. Murphy
    Robert P. "Bob" Murphy is an Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist.-Education and personal life:Murphy completed his Bachelor of Arts in economics at Hillsdale College in 1998. He then moved back to his home state of New York to continue his studies at New York University. Murphy earned...

  • Gary North
  • Frederick Nymeyer
    Frederick Nymeyer
    Frederick Nymeyer was an industrialist from South Holland, Illinois, and a vocal advocate of early libertarianism and Austrian economics.Nymeyer founded the Libertarian Press and was largely responsible for bringing the economic writings of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk to the United States...

  • Ernest C. Pasour
    Ernest C. Pasour
    E. C. Pasour, Jr. is an economist and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He received a Ph.D...

  • David Prychitko
    David Prychitko
    David L. Prychitko is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Prychitko was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to Harry and Joanne Prychitko. He is of Ukrainian and Italian descent. He was raised in Worth, Illinois, and is a 1980 graduate of Alan Shepard High School...


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  • Ralph Raico
    Ralph Raico
    Ralph Raico is an American historian, libertarian, and specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He is currently a professor of history at Buffalo State College and a senior faculty member at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Raico was a student of Ludwig von Mises and...

  • Lawrence Reed
    Lawrence Reed
    Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education , headquartered in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, a position he has held since September 1, 2008. Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan based free-market...

  • George Reisman
    George Reisman
    George Gerald Reisman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics . He is also the author of an earlier book, The Government Against the Economy , which was praised by F.A...

  • Kurt Richebächer
    Kurt Richebächer
    Dr. Kurt Richebächer was an international banker and economist. He considered himself a follower of the Austrian School of Economics and was best known for his newsletter, "The Richebächer Letter," which at various times also circulated as "Currencies & Credit Markets."Dr...

  • Lew Rockwell
    Lew Rockwell
    Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.-Life and work:...

  • Jim Rogers
    Jim Rogers
    James Beeland Rogers, Jr. is an American investor, author, and occasional financial commentator. He is currently based in Singapore. Rogers is the Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc...

  • Murray Rothbard
    Murray Rothbard
    Murray Newton Rothbard was an American author and economist of the Austrian School who helped define capitalist libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the...

  • Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
    Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
    Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan was an Austrian economists of Polish-Jewish origin born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian tradition under Hans Mayer in Vienna...

  • Russell Roberts
    Russell Roberts (economist)
    Russell Roberts is a professor of economics at the George Mason University Mercatus Center. Roberts founded and directed the Management Center at the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis...

  • Joseph Salerno
    Joseph Salerno
    Joseph T. Salerno is an Austrian School economist in the United States. A professor at Pace University, Salerno is an active scholar in the areas of banking and monetary theory, comparative economics, and the history of economic thought.-Early life:...

  • Pascal Salin
    Pascal Salin
    Pascal Salin is a libertarian French economist, professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine and a specialist in public finance. He is a former president of the Mont Pelerin Society ....

  • Joseph Schumpeter
    Joseph Schumpeter
    Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian-Hungarian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.-Life:...

  • Hans Sennholz
    Hans Sennholz
    Hans F. Sennholz was an economist of the Austrian school of economics who studied under Ludwig von Mises. After serving in the Luftwaffe in World War II, he took degrees at the universities of Marburg and Köln. He then moved to the United States to study for a Ph.D. at New York University...

  • Jesús Huerta de Soto
    Jesús Huerta de Soto
    Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester is a leading Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. He received doctoral degrees in Law and Economic and Business Sciences , both from Complutense University of Madrid, and an MBA from Stanford...

  • Mark Thornton
    Mark Thornton
    Mark Thornton is an American economist of the Austrian School. Thornton has been described by the Advocates for Self-Government as "one of America's experts on the economics of illegal drugs." Thornton has written extensively on that topic, as well as on the economics of the American Civil War,...

  • Lawrence H. White
    Lawrence H. White
    Lawrence H. White is an Economics Professor at George Mason University who teaches graduate level Monetary Theory and Policy. He is considered an authority on the history and theory of free banking...

  • Friedrich von Wieser
    Friedrich von Wieser
    Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser was an early member of the Austrian School of economics. Born in Vienna, the son of Privy Councillor Leopold von Wieser, a high official in the war ministry he first trained in sociology and law...


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