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This is a list of notable economists aligned with the Austrian school who are sometimes colloquially called "the Austrians". This designation applies even though few hold Austrian citizenship; moreover, 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
	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.
	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.
	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	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	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	1886	1949	American	Columbia University	According to Mises, Anderson was "one of the outstanding characters in this age of the supremacy of time-servers."
	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.
	Frederick Nymeyer	1897	1981	American
	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."
	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.
	Kurt Richebächer	1918	2007	German
	Hans Sennholz	1922	2007	German-American	New York University University of Cologne
	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." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the American libertarian movement.
	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
	George Reisman	1937	Living	American	New York University
	Pascal Salin	1939	Living	French	Paris Dauphine University
	Henri Lepage	1941	Living	French
	Walter Block	1941	Living	American	Columbia University
	Robert Higgs	1944	Living	American	Johns Hopkins University
	Roger Garrison	1944	Living	American	University of Virginia
	Mark Skousen	1947	Living	American	George Washington University
	David Gordon	1948	Living	American	UCLA
	Hans-Hermann Hoppe	1949	Living	German	Goethe University Frankfurt
	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
	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
	Mark Thornton	1960	Living	American	Auburn University
	Peter Boettke	1960	Living	American	George Mason University
	David Prychitko	1962	Living	American	George Mason University
	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 financial crisis of 2007–2010 while the "easiest criticism of macroeconomists is that nearly all failed to foresee the recession despite plenty of warning signs."
	Steven Horwitz	1964	2021	American	George Mason University
	Peter G. Klein	1966	Living	American	University of California, Berkeley
	Jörg Guido Hülsmann	1966	Living	German	Technische Universität Berlin
	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
	Mark Spitznagel	1971	Living	American	New York University
	Robert P. Murphy	1976	Living	American	New York University
	Christopher Coyne	1977	Living	American	George Mason University
	Peter Leeson	1979	Living	American	George Mason University
	Philipp Bagus	1980	Living	German	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Related lists

• List of economists
• List of liberal theorists

References

1. Thornton, Mark. "Who is Benjamin Anderson?" Mises.org
2. George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (1976) pp. 418–20.
3. Bank of Sweden (1974). "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974".
4. Miller, David, ed. (1991). Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-17944-5.
5. Wendy McElroy. "Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian". Lew Rockwell. July 6, 2000.
6. F. Eugene Heathe. Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. SAGE. 2007. p. 89
7. Doherty, Brian (2008). "Rothbard, Murray (1926–1995)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 441–444. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n271. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.

Further reading

• Holcombe, Randall G., ed. (1999). The Great Austrian Economists. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 0945466048.

External links

• The Austrian Economists by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk 1891
• Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Largest professional organization of Austrian economists.

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