Mario Rizzo

Dr. Mario J. Rizzo is a Distinguished Affiliated Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is also a Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Austrian Economics Program at New York University, the Co-Director of the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU Law School, the Director of the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy in the Department of Economics, and the Chairman of the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes. 

Previously, he was a fellow in law and economics at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. He earned his PhD and Masters in Economics from the University of Chicago and his BA from Fordham University.

Rizzo's major fields of research include law and economics, ethics and economics, as well as Austrian economics. He has been the director of at least fifteen major research conferences, the proceedings of which have often been published. He is the author of many articles in law journals as well as in more traditional economic outlets. Some of his notable works include Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019) coauthored with Glen Whitman and The Economics of Time and Ignorance (Routledge, 1996) coauthored with Gerald P. O'Driscoll, later re-issued and expanded as Austrian Economics Re-Examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance (Routledge, 2014).