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[edit]

Name	Year of Birth	Year of Death	Nationality	Alma Mater (Postgraduate)	Notes
Benjamin Anderson	1886	1949	United States	Columbia University	According to Mises, Anderson was "one of the outstanding characters in this age of the supremacy of time-servers."^[1]
Walter Block	1941	Living	United States	Columbia University
Peter Boettke	1960	Living	United States	George Mason University
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk	1851	1914	Austria-Hungary		Wrote the three volume magnum-opus Capital and Interest
Donald J. Boudreaux	1958	Living	United States	Auburn University
Gene Callahan	1959	Living	United States	Cardiff University
Christopher Coyne	1977	Living	United States	George Mason University
Thomas DiLorenzo	1954	Living	United States	Virginia Tech
Richard Ebeling	1950	Living	United States	Middlesex University
Marc Faber	1946	Living	Swiss	University of Zurich
Antal E. Fekete	1932	Living	Hungarian Canadian
Frank Fetter	1863	1949	United States	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.
Roger Garrison	1944	Living	United States	University of Virginia
David Gordon	1948	Living	United States	UCLA
Gottfried von Haberler	1900	1995	Austrian
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."^[2]
Henry Hazlitt	1894	1993	United States		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.^[3]
Robert Higgs	1944	Living	United States	Johns Hopkins University
Randall G. Holcombe	1950	Living	United States	Florida State University
Hans-Hermann Hoppe	1949	Living	German	Goethe University Frankfurt
Steven Horwitz	1964	Living	United States	George Mason University
William Harold Hutt	1899	1988	English
Ubiratan Iorio	1946	Living	Brazil	Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Israel Kirzner	1930	Living	United States	New York University	Kirzner's major work is in the economics of knowledge and entrepreneurship and the ethics of markets.
Peter G. Klein		Living	United States	University of California, Berkeley
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.
Don Lavoie	1951	2001	United States	New York University
Henri Lepage	1941	Living	French
Peter Leeson	1979	Living	United States	George Mason University
Fritz Machlup	1902	1983	Austria-Hungary	University of Vienna
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.
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.
Robert P. Murphy	1976	Living	United States	New York University
Frederick Nymeyer
Ernest C. Pasour		Living		Michigan State University
David Prychitko	1962	Living	United States	George Mason University
Lawrence Reed	1953	Living	United States	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
George Reisman	1937	Living	United States	New York University
Kurt Richebächer	1918	2007	German
Murray Rothbard	1926	1995	United States	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]
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan	1902	1985	Polish
Russell Roberts		Living	United States	University of Chicago
Joseph Salerno		Living	United States	Rutgers University
Pascal Salin	1939	Living	French	Paris Dauphine University
Hans Sennholz	1922	2007	German-American	New York University University of Cologne
Jesús Huerta de Soto	1956	Living	Spain	Complutense University of Madrid
Mark Spitznagel	1971	Living	United States	New York University
Mark Thornton	1960	Living	United States	Auburn University
Lawrence H. White		Living	United States	UCLA
Friedrich von Wieser	1851	1926	Austria-Hungary	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.