The Influence and Significance of Human Action after 75 Years

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Paul F. Cwik is a professor of economics and finance at the University of Mount Olive and a fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Austrian Business Cycle Theory: An Introduction.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo is president of the Mises Institute. He is the author or coauthor of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln, How Capitalism Saved America, Lincoln Unmasked, Hamilton’s Curse, Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth about Government, The Problem with Socialism, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics.

David Gordon is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and the of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-libertarian View, and Resurrecting Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H. B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Jeffrey M. Herbener is chairman and professor of economics at Grove City College. He is the editor of two books—The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises and The Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest, which has been translated into Chinese—and scores of articles in popular and scholarly venues including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, and the Journal of Libertarian Studies. He is a senior fellow and holds the Peterson-Luddy Chair at the Mises Institute, and is a fellow of the Institute for Faith and Freedom at Grove City College.

Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University and a senior fellow of the Independent Institute and the James Madison Institute, as well as a research fellow at the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University. He is vice president of the Mont Pelerin Society and the author of twenty books and over two hundred articles published in academic and professional journals. From 2000 to 2006, he served on Florida governor Jeb Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas and a distinguished senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann is a professor of economics at the University of Angers, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He is the author of Abundance, Generosity, and the State (2024), Krise der Inflationskultur (2013), The Ethics of Money Production (2008), and Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007).

Peter G. Klein is W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair, professor of entrepreneurship, and chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He is adjunct professor of strategy and management at the Norwegian School of Economics and senior academic advisor for the Mises Institute. His research focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship and business organization, with applications to innovation, regulation, and economic growth. Klein has authored or edited five books and has published over seventy-five academic articles, chapters, and reviews.

Robert P. Murphy is senior fellow of the Mises Institute and chief economist at infineo. He is the author of Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America’s Most Famous Keynesian, Chaos Theory, Lessons for the Young Economist, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, and Understanding Bitcoin (with Silas Barta), among others. He is also host of The Human Action Podcast and The Bob Murphy Show.

Jonathan Newman is the Henry Hazlitt Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. His research focuses on Austrian economics, inflation, business cycles, and the history of economic thought.

Patrick Newman is an assistant teaching professor of economics at the University of Tampa and a fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849 (2021) and Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929 (2025). He is also the editor of Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty: The New Republic, 1784–1791 (2019) and The Progressive Era (2017).

Shawn Ritenour is professor of economics at Grove City College and a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Foundations of Economics: A Christian View and The Economics of Prosperity: Rethinking Economic Growth and Development.

Joseph T. Salerno received his PhD in economics from Rutgers University. He is professor emeritus of economics in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York City. He is the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the academic vice president of the Mises Institute, where he serves on the board of directors. He is the author of Money: Sound and Unsound (Mises Institute, 2010) and has published numerous articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and scholarly books, including Oxford Economic Papers, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the Journal of Institutional Economics, the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, and the Review of Austrian Economics. He has testified before the US Congress several times.

Timothy D. Terrell is T. B. Stackhouse Professor of Economics at Wofford College and a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He is also senior associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. His research focuses on regulatory and environmental policy issues.

Mark Thornton is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute and was the Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics from 2021 to 2023. 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). He also hosts the Minor Issues and Unanimity podcasts.