Walter Block

Walter Block
Walter Block speaking in May 2016
Born
Walter Edward Block

(1941-08-21) August 21, 1941 (age 83)
New York City, U.S.
EducationBrooklyn College (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Academic career
FieldPolitical economy, environmental economics, transport economics, political philosophy
School or
tradition
Austrian School
Doctoral
advisor
Gary Becker, William Landes
InfluencesLudwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, H.L. Mencken
ContributionsEvictionism
Signature

Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist.[1] He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a former senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.[2]

  1. ^ "About Walter Block". Archived from the original on December 29, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  2. ^ "Mises Institute Faculty Listing". Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2013.