Biographies

“He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the growth of human freedom.

Hanke is Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University. His work is on the economics of water, natural resources, privatization, currency boards, dollarization, and finance. He has been a market commenter, and economic adviser to presidents and prime ministers. 

Before he revolutionized economics, Rothbard mastered the mainstream. Salerno traces Rothbard's path from neoclassical insider to Austrian iconoclast.

I became interested in the question of whether a true market in healthcare can work. I think it is a fantastically interesting subject. It has been the focus of my PhD work.

Jason Jewell is chief academic officer and vice chancellor for strategic initiatives of the State University System of Florida. He began attending Mises Institute events as a graduate student in 2002.

In this provocative and unfiltered lecture, Hoppe reflects on war, empire, the Frankfurt School, Javier Milei, and why libertarians must reject both the left and the right to defend true freedom.

J.B. Say deserves to be remembered, especially by Austrian economists, as a pivotal figure in the history of economic thought. Yet, one finds him discussed very briefly, if at all.

Dr. Fegley is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and chair of business and economics at Montreat College. In 2023, he joined the Mises University faculty, teaching on bureaucracy in the deep state, political economy of policing, and could AI and big data solve the socialist calculation problem.

Most editorialists and pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's presidency a failure, but his activities after he left office as a rousing success. The truth is that his successful deregulation efforts have left a positive and lasting legacy.

Fifty years ago today, December 11, 1974, F.A. Hayek gave his Nobel Lecture in Sweden. The conflict between what the public expects science to achieve in satisfaction of popular hopes, and what is really in its power, is a serious matter.