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.

Walter Block
Walter Block speaking in May 2016
Born
Walter Edward Block

(1941-08-21) August 21, 1941
New York City, U.S.
EducationColumbia University
Academic career
FieldPolitical economy, environmental economics, transport economics, political philosophy
School or
tradition
Austrian School
Doctoral
advisor
Gary Becker, William Landes
InfluencesLudwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, H.L. Mencken
ContributionsEvictionism
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