Biography of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914)
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (Born February 12, 1851; Died 1914) was in the right place at the right time to contribute importantly to the development of Austrian economics. Studying at the University of Vienna, he was twenty years old when Carl Menger's Principles of Economics appeared in print in 1871. His formal university training was in law (and thus he was not actually a student of Menger's), but after completing his doctorate in law in 1875, he began preparing himself both at home and abroad to teach economics in his native Austria.
Biography of Richard von Strigl (1891-1942)
The 1920s and 1930s were a glorious era in the history of the Austrian School of economics.
Biography of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)
One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises, in the course of a long and highly productiv
Biography of A.R.J. Turgot (1727-1781): Brief, Lucid, and Brilliant
ANNE ROBERT JACQUES TURGOT'S career in economics was brief but brilliant, and in every way remarkable. In the first place, he died rather young, and second, the time and energy he devoted to economics was comparatively little. He was a busy man of affairs, born in Paris to a distinguished Norman family which had long served as important royal officials. Turgot's father, Michael-Etienne, was a Councillor of the Parliament of Paris, a master of requests, and top administrator of the city of Paris. His mother was the intellectual and aristocratic Dame Magdelaine-Francoise Martineau.
Biography of Margit von Mises: 1890–1993
Margit and Ludwig von Mises were a magnificent team. Margit was unsurpassed in devotion to Mises the person in life and in perpetuating his memory and his ideas after his death.
Biography of Hans Sennholz: Teacher and Theorist
Hans Sennholz (February 3, 1922 - 23 June 2007), professor at Grove City College, was one of a handful of men in intellectual history who were able
Biography of Fritz Machlup (1902-1983)
Biography of Fritz Machlup (Dec. 15, 1902–Jan. 30, 1983), by Mark Thornton.
Biography of Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850): Between the French and Marginalist Revolutions
Claude Frederic Bastiat was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government. Perhaps the main underlying theme of Bastiat's writings was that the free market was inherently a source of "economic harmony" among individuals, as long as government was restricted to the function of protecting the lives, liberties, and property of citizens from theft or aggression. To Bastiat, governmental coercion was only legitimate if it served "to guarantee security of person, liberty, and property rights, to cause justice to reign over all."
Biography of Ludwig Lachmann (1906-1990): Life and Work
“The theory of capital lacks a simple dimension for the measurement of its subject matter.
Biography of Gottfried Haberler (1901-1995)
Gottfried Haberler was one of the first economists to make a case for the productivity of free trade in terms of the modern subjective theory of value.
Biography of Juan de Mariana: The Influence of the Spanish Scholastics (1536-1624)
The prehistory the Austrian School of economics can be found in the works of the Spanish scholastics written in the "Spanish Golden Century."
Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966): Humane Economist
“I champion an economic order ruled by free prices and markets...the only economic order compatible with human freedom.”
An American Classical Liberalism
Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of
Cheap Money, Gold, and the Federal Reserve Bank Policy
The present glut in the money markets, with excessively cheap money and its attendant evils and dangers to the credit structure of the country, is due to the concurrence of three main causes.
Myth and Truth about Libertarianism
Murray N. Rothbard Myth and Truth about Libertarianism Adobe PDF Library 4.0
The Mythology of Capital
From The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 50, Number 2 (February 1936).
Investment that Raises the Demand for Capital
From The Review of Economic Statistics, Volume 19, Number 4 (November 1937).
Reflections on the Pure Theory of Money of Mr. J.M. Keynes
From Economica, No. 33 (August 1931) and No. 35 (February 1932).