Walter Block
Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Walter Block speaking in May 2016 | |
Born | Walter Edward Block August 21, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
Education | Columbia University |
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Field | Political economy, environmental economics, transport economics, political philosophy |
School or tradition | Austrian School |
Doctoral advisor | Gary Becker, William Landes |
Influences | Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, H.L. Mencken |
Contributions | Evictionism |
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