Steven Horwitz

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.