From the Washington Times (scroll down):
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is only the most recent native Austrian to make waves in American policy circles.
The “liberty” philosophies of the late F.A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises and other modern philosophers of the “Austrian School” of economics — being icons of the American center-right — helped guide the coalition on the heels of the 1976 elections into a governing bloc that continues today.
(The story of the Austrian School begins in the 15th century, when the followers of St. Thomas Aquinas, writing and teaching at the University of Salamanca in Spain, sought to explain the full range of human action and social organization).
Now, with the help of another Austrian economist, Gunther Fehlinger, these pioneers’ labors, having helped transform the American conservative grass roots and intellectual base, are making their way full circle to Europe just as that continent escalates its own supra-nationalist revolution into a growing European Union.
