Steven Horwitz
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Former Senior Affiliated ScholarFormer Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, Ball State UniversityFormer Director, Institute for the Study of Political Economy, Miller College of Business, Ball State UniversityFormer Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute
Steven Horwitz was a senior affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise at Ball State University, and director of the Insitute for the Study of Political Economy at Ball State University. Horwitz was also a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute in Canada and a distinguished scholar at the Foundation for Economic Education. He completed his MA and PhD in economics at George Mason University and received his A.B. in economics and philosophy from The University of Michigan.
Steven is the author of three books, Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (Westview, 1992), Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000), and Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and American economic history. His work has been published in professional journals such as History of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal, and The Cambridge Journal of Economics.
For a list of his past publications, view Steven's personal website.
Latest Work
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Walmart, Katrina, and Disaster Response
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Mercatus Scholars on Barriers to Entry and Occupational Licensing
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Breaking Down the Barriers: Three Ways State and Local Governments Can Improve the Lives of the Poor
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Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America
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Alienation and Rationality—The Retreat of Postwar Socialism
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Lady Pecunia at the Puching Office: Two Poems on Early Modern Monetary Reform
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Book Chapter: Meaningful Change Comes From the Shop Floor
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Entangled Political Economy
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The Dangers of Deflation
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Entangled Political Economy
Latest Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Video Mercatus Original Video
Walmart, Katrina, and Disaster Response
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Mercatus Scholars on Barriers to Entry and Occupational Licensing
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Housing Housing
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Breaking Down the Barriers: Three Ways State and Local Governments Can Improve the Lives of the Poor
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Alienation and Rationality—The Retreat of Postwar Socialism
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Lady Pecunia at the Puching Office: Two Poems on Early Modern Monetary Reform
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Books Books
Book Chapter: Meaningful Change Comes From the Shop Floor
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Entangled Political Economy
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Dangers of Deflation
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Entangled Political Economy
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How capitalism and the bourgeois virtues transformed and humanized the family
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On Not Doing Due Diligence
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Expertise and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
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Experts and Epistemic Monopolies
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The Great Recession and its Aftermath from a Monetary Equilibrium Theory Perspective
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The Great Recession and Its Aftermath from a Monetary Equilibrium Perspective
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Why Inflation Matters
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What is so Austrian about Austrian Economics?
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The Sensory Order and Organizational Learning
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The House That Uncle Sam Built
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Latest Work
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Steven Horwitz on Libertarian Cosmopolitanism
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Effective or not, there's a cost to TSA scanners
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Inflation Concerns Unlikely to Lead to Higher Interest Rates
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Steven Horwitz on Inequality, Consumption, & Happiness
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TSA security measures will cause more deaths
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