AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS MOVEMENT --- ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROMELew Rockwell: Chairman of the Mises Institute, a Roman Catholic and has a degree in English from Tufts University . He served as Ron Paul's congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982. He has maintained a working relationship with Paul over the years, as a contributing editor to "The Ron Paul Investment Letter"; as a consultant to Paul's 1988 Libertarian Party campaign for President of the United States ; and as vice-chair of the exploratory committee for Paul's aborted run for the 1992 Republican Party nomination for president. His site LewRockwell.com has many anti-Lincoln articles
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/lincoln-arch.htmlThomas E. Woods: Holds a Bachelor's Degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University . Woods is a convert to the Roman Catholic Church and author of The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. He was associate editor of The Latin Mass Magazine, which advocates traditional Catholicism, for eleven years. His 2005 book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, is the basis for The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization, a thirteen-episode television series airing on EWTN in 2008. The series examines the Church's influence on law, morality, science, and scholarship.
Walter Block: Block earned his Ph.D. degree in economics from Columbia University and wrote his dissertation on rent control. Block now holds the Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans . From 1979 to 1991, he was the Senior Economist with the Fraser Institute, and, from 1998 to 2002, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute. In addition to his faculty position at Loyola, Block is also a Senior Faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. Block credits his "conversion" to libertarianism to personal meetings with Ayn Rand while he was an undergraduate student. Block self-identifies as a "devout atheist".
Murray Rothbard: Attended Columbia University , where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics in 1945 and a Master of Arts degree in 1946. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics in 1956 at Columbia under Joseph Dorfman. He’s credited as being the founder of Anarcho-capitalism. In 1989, Rothbard left the Libertarian Party and began building bridges to the post-Cold War anti-interventionist right, calling himself a paleolibertarian. He was the founding president of the conservative-libertarian John Randolph Club and supported the presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan in 1992, saying “with Pat Buchanan as our leader, we shall break the clock of social democracy.” However, later he became disillusioned and said Buchanan developed too much faith in economic planning and centralized state power.
