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Lew Rockwell Awarded the Prestigious Roland Baader Award

Lew Rockwell Awarded the Prestigious Roland Baader Award
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The Institute of Austrian Asset Management has awarded Lew Rockwell with the prestigious 2018 Roland Baader Award, for his contributions to Austrian economics. 

From a translation of the IfAAM press release:

The Institute for Austrian Asset Management (IfAAM) announces that the journalist Llewellyn Harrison (Lew) Rockwell Jr. receives the "ROLAND BAADER Award 2018". The ceremony will take place on 2 June 2018 at the 9th Hamburg Mark Banco Anlegertagung in the Historisches Museum Hamburg.

Without the journalistic and entrepreneurial commitment of Lew Rockwell, the Austrian School of Economics or the Austrian School of Economics would be just a footnote in the history of ideas today. His contribution to the popularization of this tradition of thinking and to the preservation and further development of their approaches can hardly be overestimated. In a hostile academic and journalistic environment marked by statists and fellow travelers in the United States and Europe, Rockwell proved courageous in uncomfortable positions. He personally acted alongside Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard, his most important student in the US, who entrusted Rockwell with their intellectual heritage.

In the name of Ludwig von Mises, with the consent and co-operation of his wife, Rockwell founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 1982, which he developed into the world's leading center of the Austrian School. The institute was founded in deliberate contrast to "think tanks", which cut back on principles for the purpose of influencing politics, and universities that are increasingly dominated by careerists and thinkers. The Mises Institute utilized he Internet to address a wide audience, especially young readers. A large part of the scientific writings of the Austrian School are made freely available in a comprehensive digital library worldwide. Without the work of the Mises Institute , the rediscovery of the Austrian School would hardly have happened. All over the world, interested people can find the ideas and approaches of this almost forgotten tradition via the internet.

In 1999, Rockwell launched LewRockwell.com, one of the oldest and most successful weblogs for the Austrian School, and became a model for many publicists. He proved that a journalist can reach a mass audience, even without the mainstream media, thanks to the internet.

In his work, which does not shy away from simple language, popular themes, and sharp words on the zeitgeist, he made for the US, what succeeded Roland Baader in German-speaking countries. This makes Lew Rockwell an obvious and deserving winner of the Roland Baader Award. 

Learn more about the IfAAM here. 

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