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2 unusual facts about Austrian School


Austrian School

Economists of the Hayekian view are affiliated with the Cato Institute, George Mason University, and New York University, among other institutions.

Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie

The initial editor of Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie was Hans Mayer, a third-generation member of the Austrian School.


Alexander Gerschenkron

Alexander Gerschenkron (in Russian Александр Гершенкрон, * 1904 in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † 26 October 1978 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor in Harvard, trained in the Austrian School of economics.

Free banking

The free banking movement got its modern start in 1977 with The Denationalization of Money, by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, who advocated that national governments stop claiming a monopoly on the issuing of currency, and allow private issuers like banks to voluntarily compete to do so.


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