IMPORTANT
FREE MARKET ECONOMISTS
PHOTOS
AND BIOGRAPHICAL LINKS
Ludwig
von Mises (1881-1973)
Arguably the greatest economist of the
twentieth century
About Mises
Read Human Action online.
Read Theory and History online (with a 1985 preface by Murray N. Rothbard).
Read "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" online.
Read "Liberty and Property" online.
Read "Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism" online.
Read other books and papers by Mises online.
Gordon
Tullock (1922- )
About
Tullock (George Mason University School of Law)
University
of Arizona emeritus listing
Read the Fundamentals of Rent Seeking (Locke Institute)
Israel
Kirzner (1930- )
About
Kirzner
Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992)
About Hayek
The Friedrich Hayek Scholars' Page
Read Hayek's paper “The Use of Knowledge in Society” online.
The 1974 Nobel prize in economic sciences was awarded jointly to Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich August von Hayek for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.About Hayek's Nobel
Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)
About Rothbard
James
Buchanan (1919- )
Short
Curriculum Vita
Annotated
Chronology of his Life's Work
Buchanan
Project: Personal tributes to James Buchanan and thematic essays
in honor of his 80th birthday.
The
James M. Buchanan Center at The George Mason University
School of Law
The 1986 Nobel prize in economic sciences was
awarded to James M. Buchanan, Jr. for his development of the
contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and
political decision-making. About
Buchanan's Nobel
Adam
Smith (1723-1790)
About Smith
E-Texts
of The Wealth of Nations and four other works by Smith
Read online An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Adam
Smith Institute
Ronald
Harry Coase (1910- )
Coase's
page
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. He is best
known for his fundamental insight on why firms exist, which,
according to Coase, is due to the existence of transactions costs.
This insight was labeled "Coase Theorem" by economist
George Stigler. Coase also applied the concept of transaction costs
to public goods. Coase challenged the long held view of the necessity
of government intervention by looking at Pigou's example of the
cattle rancher's cows destroying neighboring crops under the
assumption of zero transactions costs. In reality, transactions costs
are never zero, and thus, courts would still be needed. His Nobel speech may be found at this
page. He says there "My life has been interesting, concerned with academic affairs and on the
whole successful. But, on almost all occasions, what I have done has
been determined by factors which were no part of my choosing. I have
had "greatness thrust upon me"." Also, "I wrote
another article, The Problem of Social Cost, in which I expounded my
views at greater length, more precisely and without reference to my
previous article. This article, which appeared early in 1961, unlike
my earlier article on The Nature of the Firm, was an instant success.
It was, and continues to be, much discussed. Indeed it is probably
the most widely cited article in the whole of the modern economic
literature."
Pages for other famous law and
economics personalities:
Robert Cooter: Cooter's
page
Thomas Ulen: Ulen's page
Richard Epstein: Epstein's
page
William Landes: Landes's
page
Richard Posner: Posner's
page
Milton
Friedman (1912- )
Autobiography
Friedman's
biography page
Many details and links about Friedman
A few Friedman quotations
Free to Choose: Online sources for his work
Friedman foundation bibliography
Testimonial and photo
Friedman's
Nobel page
The 1976 Nobel prize in economic
sciences was awarded to Milton Friedman for his achievements in the
fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for
his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. About
Friedman's Nobel
Armen
A. Alchian (1914- )
Alchian's
page
Robert
W. Fogel (1926- )
Fogel's
University of Chicago page
The 1993 Nobel prize in economic
sciences was awarded jointly to Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North
for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic
theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and
institutional change. About
Fogel's Nobel
Charles
Rowley (1939- )
About
Rowley
George
Mason University Page
Robert
Tollison (1942- )
About
Tollison
More about
Tollison
Thomas
Sowell (1930- )
About Sowell
Read Sowell's "Social Dogmas and Pseudoscience" in Forbes
Interview
with Sowell
Julian L. Simon (1932-1998)
Writings of Simon
Simon resources
Walter
E. Williams (1936- )
About Williams
George
Mason University Page
Some
favorite columns
Carl
Menger (1840-1921)
About
Menger
Spaniards prior to Menger on the notion of subjectivism, Jesus Huerta de Soto on Juan de Mariana
OTHER CHAMPIONS OF LIBERTY
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Leader against tyranny and
oppression.
Beloved General of the South during the War Between
the States.
About
Lee
Biography
and more
Lee's
apotheosis
Thomas
J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863)
One of the greatest
Americans who ever lived and a valiant Christian.
Fought as Lee's
"right hand" against tyranny and oppression.
Southern
Lt. General during the War Between the States.
About Jackson
Another biography
Jackson and VMI
Stonewall Jackson resources (VMI)
Entry in the Dictionary of American Biography
Jackson's Biography, papers, books
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Classically liberal political philosopher and, ironically, a slaveholder.
A great American and the third President of the United States.
About Jefferson
Read online the Declaration of Independence or its U.S. government edition
Read online the Magna Carta (forerunner to the Declaration of Independence)
John
Locke (1632-1704)
English political philosopher
About
Locke
More
about Locke
Locke
bibliography
The
Locke Institute
Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)
A true friend of liberty. American
columnist and political commentator.
About
Hazlitt (LvMI)
Short
biography of Hazlitt (FEE)
George
Mason (1725-1792)
A great antifederalist thinker
About
George Mason
More
about Mr. George Mason 
George
Mason University Home Page
Public
Policy
Graduate
Economics
Former International
Commerce and Policy Program (GMU) "Chile
and The Global Economy" (Study Abroad) Info: Dr.
Ken Button and Dr.
John Cobin, trip
leaders. Also see info on the ICP
Page.
James
Longstreet (1821-1904)
Fought under Lee against tyranny and
oppression. (He was a southern General during the War Between the
States.)
About
Longstreet
Another
biography
The
Longstreet Chronicles
John
Adams (1735-1801)
A great American and the second President of
the United States.
A socially conservative yet classically
liberal political thinker.
About
John Adams
Claude
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
French political philosopher and
antifederalist.
About
Bastiat - his CV
Short
biography of Bastiat (FEE)
Read
his famous book The Law
OTHER PHOTO AND BIOGRAPHICAL LINKS
Idea Channel taped conversations with economists
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