List of Austrian School economists

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The economists aligned with the Austrian School are sometimes colloquially called "the Austrians" even though few hold Austrian citizenship, and not all economists from Austria subscribe to the ideas of the Austrian School.

Austrian economists

Image Name Year of Birth Year of Death Nationality Alma Mater
(Postgraduate)
Notes
CarlMenger.png Carl Menger 1840 1921 Austrian Jagiellonian University 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.
1Bawerk.png Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk 1851 1914 Austro-Hungarian Wrote the three volume magnum-opus Capital and Interest.
1wieser.jpg Friedrich von Wieser 1851 1926 Austro-Hungarian University of Vienna Wieser held posts at the universities of Vienna and Prague until succeeding Menger in Vienna in 1903, where, with brother-in-law Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, he shaped the next generation of Austrian economists including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter in the late 1890s and early 20th century.
Frank fetter.jpg Frank Fetter 1863 1949 American University of Halle 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 Hayek.
Ludwig von Mises.jpg Ludwig von Mises 1881 1973 Austrian University of Vienna He published his magnum opus Human Action in 1949. Mises had a significant influence on the Libertarian movement that developed in the United States in the mid-20th century.
Benjamin anderson.jpg Benjamin Anderson 1886 1949 American Columbia University According to Mises, Anderson was "one of the outstanding characters in this age of the supremacy of time-servers."[1]
Henry hazlitt.jpg Henry Hazlitt 1894 1993 American 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, and he has been recognized as a leading interpreter of economic issues from the perspective of American conservatism and libertarianism.[2]
Frederick Nymeyer 1897  ? American
Friedrich Hayek portrait.jpg Friedrich Hayek 1899 1992 British University of Vienna In 1974, Hayek shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and... penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."[3]
William harold hutt.jpg William Harold Hutt 1899 1988 British
Gottfried von Haberler 1900 1995 Austrian
Fritz Machlup 1902 1983 Austro-Hungarian University of Vienna
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan 1902 1985 Polish
80px Ludwig Lachmann 1906 1990 German Lachmann's ideas continue to influence contemporary social science research. Many social scientific disciplines explicitly or implicitly build on "radical subjectivist" Austrian Economics.
Kurt Richebächer 1918 2007 German
80px Hans Sennholz 1922 2007 German-American New York University
University of Cologne
MurrayBW.jpg Murray Rothbard 1926 1995 American Columbia University 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."[4][5][6] Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the American libertarian movement.[7]
Israel Kirzner.jpg Israel Kirzner 1930 Living American New York University Kirzner's major work is in the economics of knowledge and entrepreneurship and the ethics of markets.
Antal E. Fekete 1932 Living Hungarian Canadian
Ernest C. Pasour 1932 Living American Michigan State University
Ralph raico.gif Ralph Raico 1936 Living American University of Chicago
80px George Reisman 1937 Living American New York University
Pascal Salin 1939 Living French Paris Dauphine University
Henri Lepage 1941 Living French
80px Walter Block 1941 Living American Columbia University
80px Robert Higgs 1944 Living American Johns Hopkins University
RogerGarrison.jpg Roger Garrison 1944 Living American University of Virginia
Marc Faber 1946 Living Swiss University of Zurich
Mises brasil institute conference, ubiratan iorio.jpg Ubiratan Iorio 1946 Living Brazilian Fundação Getúlio Vargas
80px Mark Skousen 1947 Living American George Washington University
Antony Peter Mueller 1948 Living German University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
David Gordon 1948 Living American UCLA
Hans-Hermann-Hoppe.jpg Hans-Hermann Hoppe 1949 Living German Goethe University Frankfurt
Randall G. Holcombe 1950 Living American Florida State University
Richard Ebeling 1950 Living American Middlesex University
Don Lavoie 1951 2001 American New York University
80px Lawrence Reed 1953 Living American Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence H. White 1954 Living American UCLA
Russell Roberts 1954 Living American University of Chicago
Jesús Huerta de Soto 1956 Living Spanish Complutense University of Madrid
Donald J. Boudreaux 1958 Living American Auburn University
80px Gene Callahan 1959 Living American Cardiff University
Markthornton.gif Mark Thornton 1960 Living American Auburn University
Peter Boettke 1960 Living American George Mason University
Dr. David Prychitko.jpg David Prychitko 1962 Living American George Mason University
80px Steven Horwitz 1964 Living American George Mason University
80px Mark Spitznagel 1971 Living American New York University
Robert P. Murphy Head Shot 1.jpg Robert P. Murphy 1976 Living American New York University
Chris Coyne (Economist).jpg Christopher Coyne 1977 Living American George Mason University
80px Peter Leeson 1979 Living American George Mason University
80px Peter G. Klein  ? Living American University of California, Berkeley
Joe salerno.jpg Joseph Salerno  ? Living American Rutgers University

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References

  1. Thornton, Mark. "Who is Benjamin Anderson?" Mises.org [1]
  2. George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (1976) pp. 418–20.
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  6. F. Eugene Heathe. Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. SAGE. 2007. p. 89
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