Editors and Contributors

EDITORS

JÖRG GUIDO HÜLSMANN (jgh@guidohulsmann.com) is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Management of the University of Angers, France; a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute; and the author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007), The Ethics of Money Production (2008), and Abundance, Generosity, and the State (2024).

STEPHAN KINSELLA (nskinsella@gmail.com) is an attorney and libertarian writer in Houston, and author of Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023), Against Intellectual Property (2008); Trademark Practice and Forms (2001–2013), and International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution (2020).

CONTRIBUTORS

PHILIPP BAGUS is professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, a Fellow of the Mises Institute, an IREF scholar, and the author of numerous books including In Defense of Deflation and The Tragedy of the Euro.

JEFFREY F. BARR practices law in Las Vegas, Nevada. He studied under Murray Rothbard and Hans Herman-Hoppe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

CANER (JAY) BAYKAL lives and works in Bodrum, Turkey.

HARDY BOUILLON teaches philosophy at the University of Trier; is Hayek Institute Endowed Guest Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; and is a Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin. His books include Government: Servant or Master? (1993), Libertarians and Liberalism (1997), and Ordered Anarchy (2007).

JUAN FERNANDO CARPIO was Professor of economics at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (www.jfcarpio.com). He has translated the works of Hans-Hermann Hoppe and George Reisman into Spanish.

FERNANDO FIORI CHIOCCA is the founder and editor of Instituto Rothbard.

EMILY HOPPE DALTON, Professor Hoppe’s daughter, lives with her family in California.

JEFF DEIST is former President of the Mises Institute and currently general counsel for Monetary Metals.

Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo was a university economics professor for forty-one years, including twenty-eight years at Loyola University Maryland. He is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

DAVID DÜRR is Professor of Law emeritus, University of Zürich/Switzerland, and Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, SwissLegal-Group.

DEANNA L. FORBUSH is an attorney with Fox Rothschild. She lives with her husband, Doug French, in Las Vegas.

DOUG FRENCH received his Masters degree in economics from the University of Nevada Las Vegas under Murray Rothbard with Professor Hoppe serving on his thesis committee. He resides in Las Vegas with his wife, Deanna Forbush.

ALESSANDRO FUSILLO is an attorney in Italy and president of the Italian Libertarian Movement.

SEAN GABB, an English libertarian and conservative, is a novelist and Director of the Centre for Ancient Studies, an academy that teaches Greek and Latin.

CARLOS A. GEBAUER is a German lawyer and author.

NIKOLAY GERTCHEV holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He works for an international organisation in Brussels, Belgium and teaches financial sector regulation in the Master Law and Finance at the University of Angers, France.

OSCAR GRAU is a musician and piano teacher, working in the family business. He is a popularizer of libertarian ideas and economic science and is editor of the Spanish section of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s official website.

ROBERT GRÖZINGER lives and works in the United Kingdom.

TIM HAFFNER is a retired law enforcement and reserve military officer that was introduced to Austrian economics while serving in combat in the Middle East, and now consults on political risk and international security affairs.

JEFFREY M. HERBENER is professor of economics and chairman of the economics department at Grove City College. He is a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Institute and associate editor of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

NICK HOPPE, Professor Hoppe’s son, lives with his family in Austria.

DR. GÜLÇIN IMRE HOPPE lives in Istanbul.

DAVID HOWDEN is Professor of Economics, Saint Louis University—Madrid Campus.

LEE IGLODY, an attorney in Las Vegas, completed his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with honor under the guidance of Professors Murray N. Rothbard and Hans-Herman Hoppe at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

KARL-FRIEDRICH ISRAEL is a professor at Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France.

THOMAS JACOB studied economics at Zurich University, was a Swissair airline pilot and now works in the insurance sector. In 1981 he became a Randian Minarchist and in 1990 a Hoppean Anarchist. He has four children and lives with his wife and the two younger ones in Zurich, Switzerland.

GREGORY MORIN, Ph.D., Chemistry, owns and operates a manufacturing firm in Georgia (US). He is a chemist by training and an armchair economist by passion. He and his wife Joy are longtime supporters of the Mises Institute and the Property and Freedom Society. He currently serves on the board of the Mises Institute.

ANTONY P. MUELLER holds a doctorate in economics from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen and Nürnberg (FAU) and teaches currently at the Mises Academy in São Paulo, Brazil.

ROBERT NEF is married to Annelies Nef-Nyffeler and father of two sons and grandfather of five grandchildren.

DR. THORSTEN POLLEIT is Honorary Professor for Economics at the University of Bayreuth and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland.

OLIVIER RICHARD lives and works in Switzerland.

LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL, JR., is founder and chairman of the board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, and editor of LewRockwell.com.

MATTEO SALONIA is a historian currently teaching at the University of Nottingham Ningbo (China), and a Visiting Scholar at Benedictine College (Kansas). His academic publications include the 2017 book Genoa’s Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic.

JOSEF ŠÍMA teaches at Metropolitan University Prague. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics and his M.A. in Finance and International Politics at the University of Economics, Prague.

RAHIM TAGHIZADEGAN is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition, having taught at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany. Author of over fifteen books, he is the founder of the private university scholarium, where the Austrian School can be studied in its original interdisciplinary form. He is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), entrepreneur, and investor. Originally from Iran, he has grown up in Austria and studied in Switzerland and the US.

MARK THORNTON is the Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. 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), An Essay on Economic Theory (2010), The Bastiat Reader (2014), and The Skyscraper Curse and How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Crisis of the Last Century (2018).

ANDREAS TÖGEL lives and works in Austria.

FRANK VAN DUN taught philosophy of law at the Universities of Ghent and Maastricht. He is the author of numerous works on the philosophy of law from a natural law and libertarian perspective.

PETER WONG is a perpetual traveller and financial columnist. His former roles include chairman of a free-market think tank and chief economist at a boutique hedge fund in Hong Kong.