- 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. - Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr. - 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. - 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. - Wendy McElroy
Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist anarchist, anarcho-capitalist, and individualist feminist. Among feminists, she distinguishes herself as being sex-positive: defending the availability of pornography and condemning anti-pornography feminism campaigns. She has also voiced criticism of sexual harassment policies, particularly the zero-tolerance policies common to grade schools, … - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - Walter Block
Walter Block (born 1941) is a leading free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School. - Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist of the 19th century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced out of business by the United States government. - Stephan Kinsella
Norman (N.) Stephan Kinsella (born 1965) is an American intellectual property lawyer and libertarian legal theorist. His electronically-published works are primarily published on his blog and websites associated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and anarcho-capitalist organizations. Born in Prairieville, Louisiana, he attended Louisiana State University where he earned Master of Science (MS) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in electrical engineering, … - Robert Lefevre
Robert LeFevre was a libertarian businessman and radio personality. - John Hospers
John Hospers (born 9 June 1918) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Hospers earned advanced degrees from the University of Iowa and Columbia University and taught in the fields of philosophy and aesthetics. Early in his career he taught philosophy at Brooklyn College and at California State University, Los Angeles. Hospers' books include: "Meaning and Truth in the Arts" (1946), … - Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. The lifelong bachelor contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, metaphysics, religion, politics, rhetoric, biology, sociology, and psychology. - Gene Callahan
Gene Callahan is an American economist and writer. He is an adjunct scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a charter member of the Michael Oakeshott Association, and is the author of two books, "Economics for Real People" and "PUCK". Callahan has written for "Reason", "The Freeman", "The Free Market", "Slick Times", "Java Developer's Journal", "Software Development", "Dr. - P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University. He confesses that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a complete "volte-face". He emerged as a political observer and humorist with definite libertarian, sometimes conservative, … - 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. - Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 or 1872 - August 19, 1945) was an influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. - 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, … - 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", … - William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology. His popular essays gave him a wide audience for his "laissez-faire": advocacy of free markets, anti-imperialism, and the gold standard. - Richard Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the Faculty Director for Curriculum, and the Director, Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Beginning in 2007, he is a visiting professor of law at New York University Law School. - Tibor R. Machan
Tibor Richard Machan, Ph.D. (born 18 March 1939), professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Pacific Research Foundation in San Francisco. - Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886, De Smet, Dakota Territory – October 30, 1968, Danbury, Connecticut) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. Although her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, is now the better known writer, Lane's accomplishments remain remarkable. - 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 ] - Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorov was a U.S. thinker and member of the Old Right, a group of libertarian ideologists who were minarchist, anti-war, anti-imperialist, and (later) anti-New Dealers. In November 1944, Chodorov established a four-page monthly broadsheet called "analysis", described as "an individualistic publication—the only one of its kind in America." Attracting a modest subscriber base, the magazine merged with the conservative weekly "Human Events" in 1951. - Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Chris Matthew Sciabarra (b. February 17, 1960) is scholar and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. The main topics in his books are Objectivism, Libertarianism, and dialectics particularly concerned with Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, and Murray Rothbard. He is a Visiting Scholar at New York University where he also earned his PhD and undergraduate degrees-the former under the supervision of Bertell Ollman. - Thomas Woods
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (born 1972) is an American historian and author. - Richard Ebeling
Richard M. Ebeling (born 1950, New York City) is an American libertarian author, and president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) based in Irvington, New York. He has written and edited numerous books, including the three-volume "Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises". His most recent work is "Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom". - Joseph Salerno
Joseph T. Salerno is an Austrian School economist in the United States. - David D. Friedman
David Director Friedman (born February 2, 1945) is a libertarian writer and economist who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community with the publication of his book "The Machinery of Freedom" (1973, revised 1989). He has also authored the books "Price Theory" (1986), "Law's Order" (2000) and "Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life" (1996). - 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, … - Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux is an anarcho-capitalist philosopher, author, actor and host of Freedomain Radio which discusses the logic of personal and political liberty. Molyneux is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, and studied playwriting at the National Theatre School in Montreal. He also holds an undergraduate degree in History from McGill University, as well as a Masters Degree in History from the University of Toronto. - Samuel Edward Konkin III
Samuel Edward Konkin III (aka SEK3) (July 8, 1947 - February 23, 2004) was the author of "The New Libertarian Manifesto" and a proponent of the political philosophy which he called agorism. Agorism is a leftward evolution of anarcho-capitalism, and subset of market anarchism. In the 1970s and 1980s, he had an apartment in a building on 7th Street in Long Beach, California, as did several libertarian science fiction fans including J. Neil Schulman, … - Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen and Benjamin Barber present two different perspectives on the role of market liberalization and cultural diversity and representation. Tyler Cowen advocates working within a liberal market paradigm, using UNESCO as a 'marketing tool' for cultural representation and has a positive trade-enhancing vision towards culture. - Carlo Lottieri
Carlo Lottieri is an Italian libertarian philosopher. He studied Philosophy in Genoa and Sociology in Geneva (Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Européennes) and Paris, where he obtained a D.E.A. and a Ph.D. at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne). His thesis was written under the direction of Raymond Boudon and his topic was "Idéologie et science dans la sociologie politique de Gaetano Mosca". - Isabel Paterson
Isabel Paterson (b. January 22 1886, Manitoulin Island, Canada - d. 1961) was a journalist, author, political philosopher, and a leading literary critic of her day. Along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson, she is one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism. Paterson's best known work, her 1943 book "The God of the Machine", a treatise on political philosophy, economics, and history, … - Robert P. Murphy
Robert P. "Bob" Murphy (born 23 May 1976) is an Austrian School economist and free market-oriented author. - Jan Narveson
Jan Narveson (born 1936) is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. An anarcho-capitalist and contractarian, Narveson's form of libertarianism is deeply influenced by the thought of Robert Nozick, David Gauthier and Anthony de Jasay. Along with Nozick's "Anarchy, State and Utopia", Narveson's "The Libertarian Idea" (1988) stands as one of the most important works of libertarian theory. - Ilana Mercer
Ilana Mercer is a libertarian writer, born in South Africa to Rabbi Ben Isaacson and raised in Israel after the family was forced to flee because of her father's anti-apartheid views. She has lived in Canada and currently resides in the United States. She writes or has written for WorldNetDaily, Free-Market News Network, Front Page Magazine, Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Orange County Register, The American Spectator, … - Israel Kirzner
Israel Meir Kirzner (Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School. - George H. Smith
George Hamilton Smith (born February 10, 1949 in Japan, the son of a U.S. serviceman and his wife who were stationed there) is a libertarian author and educator. He grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for several years before leaving without a degree. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1971, Smith (through the intercession of Roy A. Childs, …
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