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David Gordon

gordonbw1.gifDavid Gordon is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in intellectual history. He is the author of Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice, The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Critics of Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and co-editor of H.B. Acton's Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of The Mises Review, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, The International Philosophic Quarterly, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, and The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. You can reach him at dgordon@mises.org.


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Walter Block

Walter Block earned his PhD in Economics at Columbia University. He is an author, editor, and co-editor of many books which include Defending the Undefendable; Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective, Lexicon of Economic Thought, Economic Freedom of the World 1975-1995; Rent Control: Myths and Realities; Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity; Theology, Third Word Development and Economic Justice; Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard; Religion, Econonomics, and Social Thought; and Economic Freedom: Toward a Theory of Measurement.

Dr. Block has written more than 500 articles for various non-refereed journals, magazines and newspapers, and is a contributor to such journals as The Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Libertarian Studies, The Journal of Labor Economics, Cultural Dynamics, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is currently a professor and chair of economics, college of business administration, at Loyola University. You can reach him at wblock@loyno.edu. See also WalterBlock.com

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Distinguished Fellow, Mises Institute;
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
hoppe@mises.com; www.HansHoppe.com

Personal: born 1949, in Peine (Germany)
Degrees:
1974 Diplom (equiv.: M.A.) in Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet (Frankfurt/M, Germany)
Dr. phil. (equiv.: PhD) in Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet (Frankfurt/M, Germany)
1981 Dr. phil.habil. ('Habilitation') in the Foundations of Sociology and Economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet (Frankfurt/M, Germany)

Education:

1968-1975 Studies in Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, Statistics, and History at Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, and Goethe-Universitaet, (Frankfurt/M, Germany)

Employment:

1986-pres.Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2009-present, Professor Emeritus; 1986-1992, Associate Professor);
1987-pres. Senior Fellow, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama;
1995-pres. Editor, The Journal of Libertarian Studies. An Interdisciplinary Review;
1995-2000. Co-Editor, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics(formerly, The Review of Austrian Economics)
1982-1986 Heisenberg Research Fellow, German National Science Foundation (DFG)
1985-1986 Ludwig von Mises Fellow, Center for Libertarian Studies, New York
1984-1985 Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy
1982-1984 Privatdozent, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
1980-1982 Visiting Professor, Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany
1978-1980 Habilitation Scholar, German National Science Foundation
1976-1978 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1974-1976 Research Fellow and Lecturer, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt/M.

PUBLICATIONS

| Selected/Online Hoppe Publications at www.HansHoppe.com |

| Online Translations/non-English Versions of Hoppe Publications|

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Books (authored):

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Main Papers Published in Refereed Journals

Shorter Papers, Notes, Replies, and Reviews in Refereed Journals & Magazines of Opinion

  • The Idea of a Private Law Society, LewRockwell.com, August 1, 2006
  • Does the State Resolve or Create Conflict?, Mises.org, March 16, 2006
  • Reflections on State and War, LewRockwell.com, November 22, 2006 (talk delivered in Auburn, Alabama, on the occasion of Professor Hoppe's receiving the Mises Institute's 2006 Gary G. Schlarbaum Liberty Prize, delivered on October 27, 2006, at "Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom," the Mises Institute Supporter's Summit; speech available in MP3 audio from Mises Media)
  • The Paradox of Imperialism, Mises.org, November 20, 2006 (excerpted from Professor Hoppe's Schlarbaum Award Acceptance Speech, delivered on October 27, 2006, at "Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom," the Mises Institute Supporter's Summit; speech available in MP3 audio from Mises Media)
  • A Note on Preference and Indifference in Economic Analysis, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Winter 2005): 87-91
  • The Rise and Fall of the City, Mises.org, Nov. 23, 2005 (an extract of chapter 9 of Democracy: The God That Failed)
  • The Intellectual Incoherence of Conservatism , Mises.org, March 4, 2005 (Italian translation; German translation)
  • Why Bad Men Rule, LewRockwell.com, Nov. 8, 2004
  • From Nation to Household: The Middle American Illusions of Sam Francis (and Pat Buchanan) (unpublished)
  • Von der Unmöglichkeit des Sozialismus
  • "Geordnete Anarchie, Eigentum, Vertrag, und Staat. Naturrechtliche Anmerkungen," Erwaegen, Wissen, Ethik, 13, no. 3, 2002
  • Democracy: The God That Failed, LewRockwell.com, Nov. 12, 2001 (discussion of Democracy: The God That Failed); Slovakian translation; Czech translation; Polish translation.
  • Hans-Hermann Hoppe on War, Terrorism, and the World State, Interview by Mark Grunert, Le Québécois Libre, No. 115, Dec. 7, 2002; Dutch translation by Aschwin de Wolf.
  • On Free Immigration and Forced Integration, LewRockwell.com, 1999; Dutch translation
  • Reviving the West(review of Pat Buchanan's The Death of the West), LewRockwell.com, Apr. 13, 2002: Italian translation, "Ridare vita all'Occidente", traduzione di Filippo Franceschetto.
  • "L'ordine naturale, lo Stato et il problema della immigrazione," Federalismo & Liberta, Vol. 8, no. 1/2, 2001.
  • "Government, Money, and International Politics" (previously unpublished). Korean translation, Emerge, no. 9, 2000; Polish translation
  • "Goethe for the Millenium," Wall Street Journal Europe, December 30, 1999. Italian translation in: La Padania & Enclave, 2000.
  • "What Made Germany Great. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Kleinstaatereiand Culture," Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Vol. 10, No. 8, August 1999; reprinted in: The Free Market, October 1999; Dutch translation.
  • "The Western State as Paradigm", Society, Vol. 35, 5, 1998.
  • "The Private Property Order. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe", Austrian Economics Newsletter, Spring 1998. Italian translation in: Elites(forthcoming).
  • Editorial, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, 1, 1998 (with Walter Block and Joseph Salerno).
  • "The Trouble With Classical Liberalism", Rothbard Rockwell Report, vol.ix, no.4, April 1998.
  • "Where the Right Goes Wrong", Rothbard Rockwell Report, vol. viii, no.4, April 1997.
  • "The Meaning of the Mises Papers", Free Market, April 1997.
  • "The Mises Archive: A Treasure Uncovered", Wall Street Journal, January 30, 1997.
  • "Einwanderungsfreiheit oder erzwungene Integration? - Eine liberale Antwort auf das Einwanderungsproblem", Criticon, November 1996.
  • The Failure of America's Foreign Wars. Edited by Richard Ebeling and Jacob Hornberger. "A Book Review", The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, November 1996.
  • Editorial, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol.9, 2, 1996 (with Walter Block and Joseph Salerno).
  • Editorial,Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol.12, 1, 1996 (with Walter Block, David Gordon, and Joseph Salerno).
  • "Down with Democracy", Enterprise and Education. The Association of Private Enterprise Newsletter, Summer1995. Reprinted in: Rothbard-Rockwell Report, February 1996. French translation; Slovak translation, 2001; Dutch translation, 1998; Swedish translation; Czech translation; Polish translation; Spanish translation ( 2, 3).
  • Editorial, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol.11, 2, 1995 (with Walter Block, David Gordon, and Joseph Salerno).
  • Editorial, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol.8, 2, 1995 (with Walter Block, and Joseph Salerno).
  • "Free Immigration or Forced Integration," Chronicles, July 1995. Also published in: Thomas Fleming, ed., Immigration and the American Identity(Rockford, Ill.: Rockford Institute, 1995) [above]; and in Salisbury Review, June 1995. German translation in: Schweizer Monatshefte, November 1998. French translation.
  • "Hoehere Bildung, Sozialismus, und die Zukunft der Demokratie. Kommentar zu Don Lavoie", Reflexion, No.34, May 1995.
  • "Murray Rothbard. R.I.P.", Free Market, March 1995.
  • "Murray Newton Rothbard. March 2, 1926 - January 7, 1995", Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol.6, 1, 1995.
  • "Ein Liberalismus von unerhoerter Radikalitaet. Zum Tode von Murray N. Rothbard", Neue Zuercher Zeitung, January 14, 1995.
  • "Nationalism and Secession," Chronicles, November 1993 Also published in Salisbury Review, June 1993. Frenchtranslation at http://www.liberalia.com/esperer.htm ; German translation in Schweizer Monatshefte, May 1993.
  • "A Note on Socialism and Slavery", Chronicles, August 1993.
  • " The Four Step Health Care Solution", Free Market, April 1993.
  • "Money, Method, and the Market Process. Essays by Ludwig von Mises. A Review", Austrian Economics Newsletter,No.1, 1994
  • "Le rationalisme autrichien a l'age du declin du positivisme", Revue des Etudes Humaines, December 1991.
  • "The Bungling of German Reunification", Free Market, July 1991.
  • "Economie et Sociologie des Impots", Revue des Etudes Humaines, July 1990.
  • "The Collapse of Socialism and the Future of Eastern Europe", Kwasny Economics, Vol.2, 6, October 1989. Reprinted in Sound Money Investor, January/February 1990.
  • "On the Indefensibility of Welfare Rights. Reply to Conway", Austrian Economics Newsletter, No.3, 1989.
  • Man, Economy, and Liberty. "Review Essay", Review of Austrian Economics, Vol.4, 1989.
  • "European Economic Integration and the ECU", Austrian Economics Newsletter, No.1, 1989. Translated into Romanian in: Cotidianul, September 6, 1996, (alternativasupplement).
  • "Intimidation by Argument - Once Again. Reply to Lomasky", Liberty, Vol.3, 2, November 1989.
  • "Demonstrated Preference and Private Property. Reply to Osterfeld", Austrian Economics Newsletter, No.1, 1988.
  • "Utilitarians and Randians vs. Reason",Liberty, Vol.2, 2, November 1988; the article is a reply to a Symposion on Hoppe's Rights Theory, in the same issue of Liberty, with comments by Murray N. Rothbard, David Friedman, Leland Yeager, David Gordon, Douglas Rasmussen, et. al., on the previous article: "The Ultimate Justification of the Private Property Ethic" (next entry);
  • "The Ultimate Justification of the Private Property Ethic", Liberty, Vol.2, 1, September 1988.
  • "The Justice of Economic Efficiency", Austrian Economics Newsletter, No.1, 1988.
  • "Why Socialism Must Fail", Free Market, July 1988. Translated into Portuguese in Visao, February 1, 1990. Reprinted in Enterprise. Institute for Saskatchewan Enterprise, Vol.1, 2, 1990.
  • "The Intellectual Cover for Socialism", Free Market, February, 1988. Reprinted in Sound Money Investor, July 1988. Translated into Romanian in Cotidianul, March 18, 1997; Spanish translation.
  • "Staatsausgaben fuer produktive Arbeitsplaetze? Ueber die Wirkungen von Beschaeftigungsprogrammen", Orientierungen zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik, No.14, 1982
  • "Sicherheits- und Entfaltungswuensche", Neue Gesellschaft, No.12, 1977.
  • "Beeinflussungsfaktoren der Konfliktbereitschaft bei Metallarbeitern", Sozialer Fortschritt, No.2, 1977 (with Juergen Schumacher).
  • "Wirtschaftliche Rezession, Konfliktbereitschaft, und Reformbestrebungen in der Arbeitnehmerschaft", Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, No.6, 1976 (with Manfred Murck, Klaus Arzberger, und Juergen Schumacher).

Translations:

  • Friedrich August Hayek, "On Ludwig von Mises", Austrian Economics Newsletter, No.4, 1988. Translation of Hayek's introduction to Ludwig von Mises, Erinnerungen(Stuttgart:G.Fischer, 1978); from the German. Reprinted in: The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Vol. 4 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1992).
  • Richard von Strigl, Capital and Production(Auburn, Al.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1995). Translation of Strigl's Kapital und Produktion(Wien: J.Springer, 1934) from the German (with Margaret Rudelich Hoppe).
  • Karlheinz Weissmann, "The Epoch of National Socialism", Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 12, No.2, 1996; from the German (with Margaret Rudelich Hoppe).

Paper and Lecture Invitations (since 1990):

Scholarly Conferences:

  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL, March 2002
  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL, March 2001
  • Europe: the Last Leviathan, Milan, Italy, December 2000
  • The Rise & the Fall of the State, Auburn, AL, October 2000
  • Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, NV, April 2000
  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, AL, March 2000
  • The History of Liberty, Auburn, AL, January 2000
  • Liberalism and Modernity, Milan, Italy, October 1999
  • Austrian Economics and Financial Markets, Toronto, Canada, September 1999
  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Al., April 1999
  • Fifty Years of Mises' Human Action, Auburn, Al., February 1999
  • Reassessing the Presidency, Warm Springs, Georgia, October 1998
  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Al., April 1998
  • An Austrian Critique of the Twentieth Century, Ludwig von Mises Institute 15th Anniversary Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1997
  • Mont Pelerin Society Regional Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, September 1997
  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn University, Auburn, Al., April 1997
  • The Intellectual Legacy of the Habsburg Empire, Budapest, Hungary, December 1996
  • The Case Against the FED, Jekyll Island, Georgia, September 1996
  • Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama, January 1996
  • Money, Banking, and the Dangers of International Control, Houston, Texas, September 1995
  • The State in East and West, Capetown, South Africa, September 1995
  • Values and the Social Order, Seoul, South Korea, August 1995
  • The Crisis of the Welfare State, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1995
  • Secessionism, Charleston, South Carolina, April 1995
  • The Legacy of Friedrich Hayek, Cannes, France, September 1994
  • Market, Nation, and the State, Sintra, Portugal, May 1994
  • The Costs of War, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1994
  • The Evils of the Welfare State, Chicago, Illinois, April 1993
  • Contending with Hayek, Zurich, Switzerland, October 1992
  • Values and the Social Order, Seoul, South Korea, August 1992
  • Money and the Federal Reserve, Jekyll Island, Georgia, April 1992
  • The Political Economy of Bureaucracy, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virgina, October 1991
  • Southwestern Economics Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 1991
  • The Economics of Desocialization, Washington D.C., April 1990

University Lectures:

  • University of Paris II, Pantheon, Paris France, March 2003
  • Yale University, New Haven, Conn., March 2003
  • University of Rome (LUISS), Rome Italy, November 2002
  • University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, November 2002
  • Washington University, St. Louis, Ms., March 2002
  • University Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 2001.
  • University of Milan, Italy, October 1999.
  • Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, September 1997.
  • University of Bucarest, Bucarest, Romania, July 1997.
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1997
  • Economic University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, December 1996
  • University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 1995
  • University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, June 1995
  • University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, June 1994
  • University of Trier, Trier, Germany, June 1994
  • University Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 1993
  • University of Trier, Trier, Germany, June 1993
  • University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, June 1992
  • Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 1992
  • Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 1991
  • Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, June 1991
  • Goethe University, Frankfurt/M., Germany, June 1991
  • Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, April 1990

Instructional Conferences:

  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn, Al., August 2003
  • Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Man, Economy, and State, Auburn, Al. 2003
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn, Al., August 2002
  • Rothbard Graduate Seminar, The Ethics of Liberty, Auburn, Al., July 2002
  • History of Liberty Conference, Auburn, Al., May 2002 Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn, AL, August 2001
  • History of Liberty Conference, Auburn, AL, July 2001
  • Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Auburn, AL, June 2001
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn University, Auburn,AL, August 2000
  • Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, June 2000
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, Al., August 1999
  • Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Auburn University, Auburn, Al., July 1999
  • Summer University in Economics and Philosophy, Liberalni Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, June 1999
  • Summer University in Economics and Philosophy, Hayek Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, June 1999
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, Al., August 1998
  • Summer University in Economics and Philosophy, Liberalni Institute, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, June 1998
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, Al., June 1997
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, August 1996
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, July 1995
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Claremont College, Claremont, California, July 1994
  • Grant's Russian Experience, Moscow, Russia, July 1994
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Claremont College, Claremont, California, July 1993
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, July 1992
  • Summer University in Austran Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, July 1991
  • Summer University in Austrian Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, July 1990

Others:

  • Liberalni Institut, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2003
  • Libertarian World Convention, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2003
  • Libertarian Spring Convention, Cracow, Poland, March 2003
  • CIDAS, Torino, Italy, December 2002
  • In Honor of Gianfranco Miglio, Como, Italy, November 2002
  • Libertarian Supper Club, Sestrie, Italy, November 2002
  • Scholarship of Libery Conference, Auburn, Al., October 2002
  • What Motivates America: From Republican Liberty to World Empire, Liberales Institut, Zuerich, Switzerland, June 2001
  • Money, State, and International Politics, Center for a New Europe, Brussels, Belgium, June 2001
  • Mises Institute Supporters Meeting, Newport Beach, CA, February 2001
  • The Failure of Democracy, La Stampa Press Club & Il Circolo, Milan, Italy, July 2000
  • The Ethics of Liberty, Liberales Institut, Zuerich, Switzerland, June 2000
  • The Impossibility of a Minimal State, Sonoma Forum, Sonoma, CA, May 2000
  • The Impossibility of a Minimal State, Free Exchange, San Francisco, CA, May 2000
  • Security Production - Public or Private?, Liberales Institut, Zurich, Switzerland, June 1999
  • Security Production - Public or Private?, Institut Euro, Paris, France, June 1999
  • Libertarian World Convention: The Transformation of Eastern Europe, Berlin, Germany, August 1998
  • The Failure of Democracy, Liberalni Institut, Prague, Czechia, June 1998
  • Fifteen Great Austrian Economists, Mises Institute, Auburn, Al., June 1998
  • Mises Institute Supporters Meeting, Palm Beach, Ca., February 1998
  • Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Annual Meeting, San Mateo, Ca., February 1998
  • Deutsches Unternehmerinstitut & German-American Chamber of Commerce, Auburn, Al., October 1997
  • Mises Institute Supporters Meeting, Newport Beach, Ca., January 1997
  • Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Annual Meeting, San Mateo, October 1996
  • John Randolph Club, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 1996
  • St.Louis Discussion Club, Annual Convention, St.Louis, March 1996
  • Mises Institute Supporters Meeting, San Francisco, February 1996
  • Center for Libertarian Studies, Burlingame, California, November 1995
  • John Randolph Club Meeting, San Mateo, California, November 1995
  • Liberales Institut, Zurich, Switzerland, June 1995
  • Mises Institute Weekend at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1995
  • Rothbard-Rockwell Report, San Mateo, California, March 1995
  • Mises Institute Supporters Meeting, San Francisco, California, February 1995
  • John Randolph Club Meeting, Washington, DC, October 1994
  • Liberales Institut, St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 1994
  • Nevada Policy Research Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1994
  • Mises Institute Weekend at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1994
  • Instituto Naumann, Brazilian Lecture Tour, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia, and Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 1993.
  • Liberales Institut, Zurich, Switzerland, June 1993
  • Mises Institute Weekend at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1993
  • Randolph Club Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, December 1992
  • Mises Institute Weekend at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1992
  • Randolph Club Meeting, Washington, DC, January 1992
  • Privatization Seminar, Police Academy of Germany, Muenster-Hilltrup, June 1991
  • Economic Consulting Seminar, Vienna, Austria, August 1990

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Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Dr. Hülsmann is a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France. He has edited six books and is the author of The Ethics of Money Production (German translation: Ethik der Geldproduktion), of Ordnung und Anarchie, and of Mises:The Last Knight of Liberalism. He has translated several renowned economics books into German and written many articles in English, French, and German. He is a contributor to scholarly journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, The Independent Review, Procesos de Mercado, and the Journal of Markets and Morality, as well as to magazines and newspapers such as La Tribune (France), Finanz und Wirtschaft (Switzerland), Le Temps (Switzerland), Wiener Zeitung (Austria), and eigentümlich frei (Germany). Professor Hülsmann is the director of the Austrian Research Seminar in Paris. You can reach him at jgh@guidohulsmann.com, and visit his website, www.guidohulsmann.com.

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Yuri Nicholas Maltsev

maltsevbw.gifYuri Maltsev received his MA in history and social sciences at Moscow State University and his PhD in economics at the Institute for Labor Research in Moscow. Some of his major achievements include consulting on Central and Eastern European economic, trade and political issues, as well as appearing on national television and radio programs. Dr. Maltsev has an impressive publishing record which consists of five monographs, contributions to sixteen books, seventy-three articles (including co-authored materials) in American, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, and Taiwanese journals, magazines, and newspapers. He currently is a professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. You can reach him at ymaltsev@carthage.edu

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Mark Thornton

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Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. He has served as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas. Mark served as Assistant Superintendent of Banking and economic adviser to Governor Fob James of Alabama (1997-1999) and he was awarded the University Research Award at Columbus State University in 2002. His publications include The Economics of Prohibition (1991), Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (2004),  The Quotable Mises (2005), The Bastiat Collection (2007), and An Essay on Economic Theory (2010). He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and received his PhD in economics from Auburn University.

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Ralph Raico

Ralph Raico is professor of European history at Buffalo State College and a specialist on the history of liberty, the liberal tradition in Europe, and the relationship between war and the rise of the state. Among many articles, he is author of "World War I: The Turning Point" and "Rethinking Churchill" in the 2nd edition of The Costs of War (edited by John V. Denson). He is the recipient of the 2000Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty

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Herbener, Jeffrey M.

herbener.gifJeffrey M. Herbener is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is a professor at Grove City College. You can reach him at jmherbener@gcc.edu

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Thomas DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzoThomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland, and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of ten books, on subjects such as antitrust, group-interest politics, and interventionism generally.

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Joseph Salerno

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George Reisman

Dr. George Reisman earned his PhD in Economics at New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises. He is the author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. He has contributed articles to academic journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, and The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He has also contributed articles to publications such as The Orange County Register, Barrons, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily News, The Buffalo News and The Free Radical.

Dr. Reisman is Pepperdine University Professor Emeritus of Economics and serves as the President of The Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics and Psychology . You can reach him at greisman@pepperdine.edu. Read his book Capitalism in pdf format at The Jefferson School's wesbite and his news commentaries on his blog.

Reisman's recommended, Mises University 2006

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Recommended Readings

Charles Holt Carroll, Organization of Debt into Currency. Edited with an Introduction by Edward C. Simmons. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1964. This is a brilliant series of essays written between 1855 and 1879 showing how a fractional reserve monetary system causes depressions. Argues forcefully for a 100-percent-reserve gold standard throughout.

Carl Menger, Principles of Economics. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950; reprint ed., Grove City, Pennsylvania: Libertarian Press, 1994. See pp. 257-271.

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, 4th ed. rev. San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1996. See especially Chapters X-XIII, XVII-XX, XXXI.

---, Planning For Freedom, 4th ed. enl. Grove City, Pennsylvania: Libertarian Press, 1980. See especially Chapters IV-VI, X, XIV.

---, The Theory of Money and Credit. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953; reprint ed., Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 1971; reprint ed., Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, The Liberty Fund, 1981.

George Reisman, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1996. See especially pp. 141-144 and Chapters 12, 13, and 19.

Murray Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles, 2nd ed. enl., Scholar's Edition, Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004. See especially Chapters 3 and 11.

---, What Has Government Done to Our Money? Novato, California: Libertarian Publishers, 1978; reprint ed., Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990.

Hans Sennholz, Age of Inflation. Belmont, Massachusetts, 1979; reprint Grove City, Pennsylvania, Libertarian Press.

Jesús Huerta de Soto, Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles.Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006.

Andrew Dickson White, Fiat Money Inflation in France. Edited by Henry Hazlitt. Irvington-On-Hudson, New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 1959.

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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. is chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, editor of LewRockwell.com, and author of The Left, the Right, and the State. Send him mail.

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Peter G. Klein

 

Peter G. Klein is Executive Director and Carl Menger Research Fellow of the Peter KleinMises Institute and Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he also directs the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and he holds adjunct faculty positions with the Truman School of Public Affairs and the Norwegian School of Economics. His research focuses on the economics of organization, entrepreneurship, and corporate strategy, with applications to diversification, innovation, food and agriculture, economic growth, and vertical coordination. Klein has authored or edited five books and has published over 70 academic articles, chapters, and reviews. See here for his complete vita and here for his website at the University of Missouri.

 

He taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, and the Copenhagen Business School, and served as a Senior Economist with the Council of Economic Advisers. He is also a former Associate Editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. He lectures regularly at the Mises University and other Mises Institute events.

 

Klein received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He co-founded the popular management blog Organizations and Markets.

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Thomas E. Woods

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Thomas E. Woods, Jr., senior fellow in history at the Mises Institute, holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

His books include the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery), 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Lexington), and The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era (Columbia University Press), as well as well as Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush (July 2008) and We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing From 1812 to Now (September 2008). He is also the editor of The Political Writings of Rufus Choate and of a 2003 edition of Orestes Brownson's 1875 classic The American Republic.

Woods's writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, Modern Age, American Studies, Catholic Social Science Review, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, Catholic World Report, The Freeman, Independent Review, Religion & Liberty, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, AD2000 (Australia), Christian Order (U.K.), and Human Rights Review. An editor of The Latin Mass magazine for 11 years ,Woods is a contributing editor of The American Conservative and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies.  A contributor to six encyclopedias, Woods is co-editor of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, an 11-volume encyclopedia.

Woods was the recipient of the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and of an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003.  He has also been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He also won the $50,000 first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards for his book The Church and the Market.

Woods has appeared on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends, and The Big Story with John Gibson, as well as on MSNBC's Scarborough Country and C-Span2's Book TV.  He has been a guest on over 150 radio programs, including Fox News Live with Alan Colmes, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, and the Michael Medved Show.

 
William H. Peterson

William Herbert Peterson is the winner of the 2005 Gary G. Schlarbaum Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Human Liberty, awarded by the Mises Institute ($10,000 prize). [Prize Announcement] He has served a crucial role as a leading public intellectual, elaborating on the insights of Mises through teaching, writing, and speaking on the relationship between free enterprise and human liberty.

Professor Peterson holds B.S. (1943) and Ph.D. (1952) degrees in economics from New York University and an M.S. degree from Columbia University (1948). During World War II, he also studied at the Harvard Business School under Navy sponsorship and attended a summer leave seminar at Oxford University.

During his academic career, Peterson has served as assistant to the dean, associate professor and professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University, where he was a colleague and friend of Ludwig von Mises; John David Campbell Professor of American Business in the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona; Scott L. Probasco. Jr. Professor of Free Enterprise and Director, Center for Economic Education, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Distinguished Burrows T. and Mabel L. Lundy Emeritus Professor of Business Philosophy, Campbell University in North Carolina; Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, where he continues to serve as Adjunct Scholar.

His experience in business and government includes service as Economist and Assistant to the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Steel Corporation, Senior Economic Advisor to the United States Department of Commerce, and economics speech writer on the campaign staff of Richard Nixon. Dr. Peterson has served as a consultant for General Electric, General Motors, Republic of the Ivory Coast, Republic of South Vietnam, Time, Union Carbide, Manufacturers-Hanover Trust, and Southern Co., among others.

An active scholar, Dr. Peterson has published articles in the Harvard Business Review, The Freeman, The Free Market, Washington Times, Challenge, Monthly Labor Review, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Dun's Review, Business Week, Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Literature, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Tokyo), Die 24t, Farmand (Oslo), Australian (Sydney), Sunday Times (London), and others. He writes Daily Articles on Mises.org, and is the author of two tributes to Ludwig von Mises: "Thoughts and Memories" and "Discovering Mises: A Turning Point." See also "The End of History?" and his Daily Article archive.

For fourteen years, he wrote a regular column for the Wall Street Journal entitled "Reading for Business." Apart from authoring monographs and books including The Great Farm Problem (1959), he contributed entries to McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Economics (1982, 1992). He has appeared as a guest commentator on the national PBS-TV show, "Nightly Business Report." He is currently a member of the "Brain Trust" contributing a column to the Investor's Business Daily.

In January 1979, Dr. Peterson was appointed to be a member of the Federal Drafting Committee of the National Tax-Limitation Committee. Led by Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman, this committee composed a draft of a constitutional amendment to limit the growth of the Federal budget.

In 1982, Dr. Peterson was sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency to lecture on supply-side economics in Rumania, East Germany, Ireland and Canada. For this effort, he won a letter of commendation from President Reagan.

In 1961, the McKinsey Foundation awarded first prize to Dr. Peterson for the best article of the year, "The Case for a North American Common Market," published in Indiana University's Business Horizons. In 1981, the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge gave Dr. Peterson the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. In 1989, the Association of Private Enterprise Education named Dr. Peterson as Distinguished Scholar. In 1990, the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge awarded him the George Washington Medal of Honor. In 1991 he was awarded an honorary degree by Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. In 1993, Campbell University conferred on him the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

An active speaker, Dr. Peterson has lectured at the University of the Americas (Mexico City), Harvard University, Princeton University, Redford University, University of Arizona, University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, Florida State, Chattanooga State, Northwood Institute, Emory & Henry College, Peace College, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Wellesley College, University of New Hampshire and at various professional and trade associations.


 
Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella is the founder and Editor of Libertarian Papers, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. He is a former partner with Duane Morris LLP and was adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law. His books include Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mises Institute, 2009); Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008); International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 2005 [2nd ed. forthcoming 2010]), and several other legal treatises, as well a numerous publications in law reviews. Kinsella's libertarian articles have appeared in journals such as The Freeman, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Reason Papers, the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, LewRockwell.com, and Mises Daily.

Kinsella received his LL.M. (international business law) from King’s College London, his JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, and his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University. His cv and legal publication may be found at his KinsellaLaw.com; libertarian publications at StephanKinsella.com.

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John C. Cochran

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Dr. John P. Cochran is currently Dean, School of Business and professor of Economics at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He served as Dean or Interim Dean since January 2004 Prior to that, Dr. Cochran served as Chair of Economics at Metropolitan State College of Denver for over 10 years. He has taught at Metro State since 1981. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Regis University and is a long-time Adjunct Scholar of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, the leading research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory and the Austrian School of economics. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1985. He is the author with Fred R. Glahe) of The Hayek-Keynes Debate: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research (Edwin Mellen Press 1999). He has published numerous scholarly articles on the refinement and development of the boom/bust theory of the business cycle as well as articles on the economics of education. In addition to his scholarly publications, Dr. Cochran provides commentary on current economic conditions in the Daily Articles at print copy: or Daily articles

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Douglas E. French

Douglas E. French is Senior Editor at Laissez-faire Books and past president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He received his master's degree under the direction of Murray N. Rothbard at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after many years in the business of banking.

He has been a major supporter of the Mises Institute

He is the author of Early Speculative Bubbles, the first major empirical study of the relationship between early bubbles and the money supply, and of Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth

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