1926 to 1995
Murray N. Rothbard
Economics, history, political philosophy, and law, across thirty years of writing. He arrived at the Institute he co-founded having already rebuilt economic theory once. Eighteen major works · 1962 to 2014
Eighteen of the twenty-seven titles the Institute lists, plus the periodicals he edited and more than a thousand articles. His bibliography runs to sixty-two pages.
The Six
The people who built this
A hundred and fifty years of argument, carried by six men. Everything they wrote is on this site, in full, free.
What is Austrian economics?1840 to 1921
Carl Menger
Started it. His Principles of 1871 answered the water and diamonds problem and founded the school doing it.
His work1851 to 1914
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Menger’s student. Worked out why production takes time, why time has a price, and what interest actually is.
His work1881 to 1973
Ludwig von Mises
Built the system. Human Action is the full statement, and his calculation argument of 1920 ran for seventy years.
His work1894 to 1993
Henry Hazlitt
Took it to the public. Wrote Economics in One Lesson, which has never been out of print.
His work1899 to 1992
Friedrich Hayek
Explained what a price is doing. London, then Chicago, then the Nobel Prize in 1974.
His work1926 to 1995
Murray Rothbard
Rebuilt economic theory on Austrian foundations in Man, Economy, and State, and co-founded this Institute.
His workThe bars are lifespans on one scale, 1840 to 1995. Menger died five years before Rothbard was born. The school reached him through the men in between.
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