Image
Name
Year of birth
Year of death
Nationality
Alma mater (postgraduate)
Notes
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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 .
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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
1851
1914
Austro-Hungarian
University of Heidelberg University of Leipzig University of Jena
Wrote the three volume magnum-opus Capital and Interest .
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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.
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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 .
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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.
Joseph Schumpeter
1883
1950
Austrian
University of Vienna
Schumpeter was one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century, and popularized creative destruction , a term coined by Werner Sombart . His magnum opus is considered Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy .
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]
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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
1981
American
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Friedrich Hayek
1899
1992
Austrian
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
1899
1988
British
Gottfried von Haberler
1900
1995
Austrian
Fritz Machlup
1902
1983
Austro-Hungarian
University of Vienna
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
1902
1985
Polish
Ludwig Lachmann
1906
1990
German
University of Berlin
Lachmann's ideas continue to influence contemporary social science research. Many social scientific disciplines explicitly or implicitly build on "radical subjectivist" Austrian economics.
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Kurt Richebächer
1918
2007
German
Hans Sennholz
1922
2007
German-American
New York University University of Cologne
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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]
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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 .
Ernest C. Pasour
1932
Living
American
Michigan State University
Ralph Raico
1936
2016
American
University of Chicago
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George Reisman
1937
Living
American
New York University
Pascal Salin
1939
Living
French
Paris Dauphine University
Henri Lepage
1941
Living
French
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Walter Block
1941
Living
American
Columbia University
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Robert Higgs
1944
Living
American
Johns Hopkins University
Roger Garrison
1944
Living
American
University of Virginia
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Mark Skousen
1947
Living
American
George Washington University
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David Gordon
1948
Living
American
UCLA
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
1949
Living
German
Goethe University Frankfurt
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Joseph Salerno
1950
Living
American
Rutgers University
Randall G. Holcombe
1950
Living
American
Florida State University
Richard Ebeling
1950
Living
American
Middlesex University
Don Lavoie
1951
2001
American
New York University
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Lawrence Reed
1953
Living
American
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence H. White
1954
Living
American
UCLA
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Russell Roberts
1954
Living
American
University of Chicago
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Jesús Huerta de Soto
1956
Living
Spanish
Complutense University of Madrid
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Donald J. Boudreaux
1958
Living
American
Auburn University
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Mark Thornton
1960
Living
American
Auburn University
Peter Boettke
1960
Living
American
George Mason University
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David Prychitko
1962
Living
American
George Mason University
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Peter Schiff
1963
Living
American
University of California, Berkeley
Host of the Peter Schiff Show , and is credited for "more or less accurately" predicting the 2008 financial crisis while the "easiest criticism of macroeconomists is that nearly all failed to foresee the recession despite plenty of warning signs."
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Steven Horwitz
1964
2021
American
George Mason University
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Peter G. Klein
1966
Living
American
University of California, Berkeley
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Jörg Guido Hülsmann
1966
Living
German
Technische Universität Berlin
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Javier Milei
1970
Living
Argentinian
Belgrano University
He became widely known for his regular TV appearances where he has been critical of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández administrations.
He became a Federal Deputy in 2021 and was elected as President of Argentina in 2023 , running on the La Libertad Avanza ticket and beating Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa in a landslide, thereby becoming the first ever Libertarian head of state , anywhere in the world
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Mark Spitznagel
1971
Living
American
New York University
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Robert P. Murphy
1976
Living
American
New York University
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Christopher Coyne
1977
Living
American
George Mason University
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Peter Leeson
1979
Living
American
George Mason University
Philipp Bagus
1980
Living
German
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos