- Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was a notable economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement. He has been called the "uncontested dean of the Austrian School of economics". The Ludwig von Mises Institute is named after him.
- Jeffrey Tucker
Jeffrey Albert Tucker is the editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank that espouses the Austrian School of economics. He is the current webmaster for Mises.org. He has also compiled an annotated bibliography of the works of Henry Hazlitt, entitled "Henry Hazlitt: Giant For Liberty", which is now in print. He is a Roman Catholic. Tucker is known both for his scholarly efforts and humorous contributions to LewRockwell.com, …
- Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . He has served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas.
- Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was a highly influential American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism. Rothbard took the Austrian School's emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion, which he termed "anarcho-capitalism." He was son of David and Rae Rothbard.
- Walter Block
Walter Block (born 1941) is a leading free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . His most recent book is Democracy: The God That Failed , and he is editor of The Myth of National Defense . His personal website is www.HansHoppe.com .
- Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Jörg Guido Hülsmann, is a German economist of the Austrian School who was heavily influenced by Ludwig von Mises. He is a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and is a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Hülsmann has translated several English-language economics books into his native tongue, German. He has written scholarly articles in German, English, and French, and his works have been translated into Italian, Slovak, Czech, …
- George Reisman
George Gerald Reisman (born January 13 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of the massive 1,050-page volume "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics" (1996). He is also the author of an earlier book, "The Government Against the Economy" (1979), contents of which are mostly subsumed in "Capitalism". Reisman was born in New York City and earned his Ph.D. from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises.
- 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 that refuted the labor theory of value developed by the classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Menger was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland (at that time Neu Sandec, Austrian Galicia). He was the son of a wealthy family of minor nobility; his father, Anton, was a lawyer.
- Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institutes quarterly journal The Independent Review . He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague.
- Sudha Shenoy
Sudha Shenoy is an economist and economic historian of Indian origin. She is one of the most notable Indian proponents of the Austrian School of economics. Shenoy's father was B. R. Shenoy, an economist who studied at the London School of Economics under Friedrich Hayek. Sudha Shenoy is a Honorary Associate in Economic History at the School of Policy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has also been a visiting faculty member at California State University, …
- Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt was a libertarian philosopher, economist, and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The American Mercury, among other publications. In childhood his family's finances were meager, his father having died when Henry was an infant, and he left college after a year and a half to become a journalist. He was credited with bringing Austrian economics to an English-speaking audience.
- Friedrich von Wieser
Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser was an early member of the Austrian School of economics. Born in Vienna the son of a high official in the War Ministry (“Freiherr” is a "title", equivalent to "baron", rather than a personal name), he first trained in sociology and law. He was the brother-in-law of another prominent Austrian school economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk.
- Joseph Salerno
Joseph T. Salerno is an Austrian School economist in the United States.
- Laurence M. Vance
Laurence M. Vance holds degrees in history, theology, accounting, and economics. In addition to regularly contributing articles and book reviews to both secular and religious periodicals, he has written and published seven books and two collections of essays, including Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State . He is also an adjunct instructor in accounting at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, FL.
- Thomas Dilorenzo
Thomas J. DiLorenzo , professor of economics at Loyola College and adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute, is the author or co-author of Underground Government (1983), Destroying Democracy (1985), The Rhetoric of Antitrust (1986), Official Lies (1992), Cancer Scam (1997), The Food and Drink Police (1999), and dozens of articles in books and scholarly journals, including the Review of Austrian Economics . He teaches at the annual Mises University.
- Lew Rockwell
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (born 14 October 1944, Boston), more commonly known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator. Rockwell is the founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, Vice President of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, and publisher of the political weblog LewRockwell.com.
- Roger Garrison
Roger Garrison is a professor of economics at Auburn University, Alabama. He is affiliated with the Austrian School of economics and wrote the book "Time and Money," which presents a graphical framework for capital-based macroeconomics and offers a critique of Keynesian graphical analysis. Dr.
- Peter Boettke
Peter J. Boettke (b. 3 January 1960) is an American economist of the Austrian School.
- Friedrich A. Hayek
At the London School of Economics, Hayek was instrumental in furthering its then-novel "continental" bent and he was highly influential on his junior colleagues (such as John Hicks ) and students (which included Abba Lerner and Nicholas Kaldor ). However, following the appearance of the General Theory by John Maynard Keynes in 1936, Abba Lerner and Nicholas Kaldor , like the rest of the economics profession, were drawn away from Hayek's orbit.
- Jeffrey Herbener
Jeffrey M. Herbener is an American economist of the Austrian School.
- Robert P. Murphy
Robert P. "Bob" Murphy (born 23 May 1976) is an Austrian School economist and free market-oriented author.
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of Austrian economics. Trained in the University of Vienna as a lawyer where he read Carl Menger's "Principles of Economics." Though he never studied under Menger, he quickly became an adherent of his theories.
- Benjamin Anderson
Benjamin McAlester Anderson, Jr. was an American economist in the Austrian tradition of Carl Menger.
- Israel Kirzner
Israel Meir Kirzner (Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School.
- Lawrence H. White
Lawrence H. White is the F.A. Hayek Professor of Economic History with the University of Missouri–St. Louis Economics department. He has held this position since August 2000 and teaches classes on American Economic History, Monetary Theory, and Money and Banking. Before coming to UMSL He held positions as Assistant Professor at New York University and Associate Professor at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
- Don Lavoie
Don C. Lavoie (April 4, 1951 - November 6, 2001) was an Austrian school economist. He worked at the Cato Institute. He wrote a book entitled "National Economic Planning: What Is Left?" (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1985). He was influenced by Friedrich Hayek, Michael Polanyi and Ludwig Lachmann. Among his students, there are a number of "contemporary Austrian" economists: Peter Boettke, David Prychitko, Steve Horwitz, Ralph Rector, …
- Gottfried Haberler
Gottfried von Haberler (1900 - May 6, 1995) was an economist. He worked in particular on international trade. Haberler was born in Austria in 1900, and was educated in the Austrian School of economics. In 1936 he moved to the United States, joining the economics department at Harvard. Here he worked alongside Joseph Schumpeter. Haberler's two major works were "Theory of International Trade" (1936) and "Prosperity and Depression" (1937).
- Roderick T. Long
Roderick T. Long (b. February 4, 1964) is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University and a libertarian political commentator. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Long currently edits the "Journal of Libertarian Studies" and is a Senior Scholar at the Austrian School Ludwig von Mises Institute, also located at Auburn. He is the founder and president of the Molinari Institute, a small think-tank, …
- Ludwig Lachmann
Ludwig Lachmann was a German economist who became a passionate member of and important contributor to the Austrian School.
- Hans Sennholz
Hans Sennholz - CNP Board of Governors; CNP Membership Roster (1984-85, 1988, 1996, 1998) Professor of Economics, Grove City College; author of Age of Inflation, Death and Taxes; Chairman, Foundation for Economic Education; V.P. Committee for Monetary Research and Eduction; Director Center for Futures Education. Dr. Sennholz was a decorated pilot in the Luftwaffe, Adolf Hitler's elite air corps. [ IRC: Western Goals Foundation ; Ethnic News Watch ]
- Richard Cantillon
Richard Cantillon (1680-1734), acknowledged by many historians as the first great economic "theorist", is an obscure character. This much is known: he was an Irishman with a Spanish name who lived in France. He is said to have speculated profitably in Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes shares, unlike so many others, during the John Law adventures, making a fortune of some twenty million livres before moving to England.
- Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author of more than 20 non-fiction books. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975. He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, among other Fortune 500 companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, …
- Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan (b. 1971) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. A great deal of his professional work has been devoted to the philosophies of libertarianism and free-market capitalism. He has published in notable journals such as "American Economic Review", "Public Choice", …
- Frank Fetter
Frank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian School.
- Jesús Huerta de Soto
Jesús Huerta de Soto is an Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. In 2005 Huerta de Soto received the CNE's Adam Smith Award for lifetime achievement
- George Selgin
George A. Selgin is a professor of Economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His principal research areas are monetary and banking theory, monetary history, and macroeconomics. Selgin is known for his research agenda in Private issue of coinage. This belongs to a the free banking and Austrian School of economics. He has co-authored with Lawrence H. White on the subject of Free Banking. Dr.
- William Smart
William Smart (10 April 1853 - 19 March 1915) was a British economist. Originally a conveyor of the thought of the Austrian School, Smart was increasingly won-over to the neoclassicalism of Alfred Marshall. Smart, eldest son of Alexander Smart and grandson of Reverend William Smart, was born in Barrhead, Scotland.
- 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.
- Steve Badera
Steve Badera is currently a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in computer and systems engineering. Steve´s area of expertise are software engineering, computer and network security, and IT/Networking. Steve also has an extensive background in Biomedical engineering and Polymer and Materials Science.