Academics
Austria's maverick finance minister, Karl-Heinz Grasser, first dreamed up what would eventually become the Hayek Institute Endowed Guest Professorship in 2003. His idea became a reality through the combined efforts of the Austrian Science Ministry and the Friedrich August von Hayek Institut, located in Vienna. The Hayek Endowed Professors are internationally renowned scholars placed on a rotating basis in one of Austria's universities to teach in the tradition of the Austrian School of Economics, with an emphasis on the ideas of F.A. v. Hayek and public choice.
Bruno Frey
Swiss economist and one of the world's leading welfare economists. He is best known for his critique of Homo economicus or economic man, arguing that it places excessive emphasis on extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYCharles B. Blankart
Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin since 1992, is Dr. rer. pol. of University of Basel (1969) received postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) at University of Konstanz (1976), was professor at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich, and at the Berlin Polytechnic Institute.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYKaren Vaughn
Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Former president of the Southern Economics Association and the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. She is the author of several articles on Austrian economics and a book entitled Austrian Economics in America: the Migration of a Tradition.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYSteve Pejovich
Professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. Pejovich has written numerous books and articles on economics, including Fundamentals of Economics: A Property Rights Approach and Life in the Soviet Union: A Report Card on Socialism. Dr. Pejovich received an LL.B., from the University of Belgrade and a Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYVictor Vanberg
Professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg. Author of Rules and Choice in Economics.
Hardy Boullion
Head of Academic Affairs at the Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, and Stand-In-Professor at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Former guest professorships took him to Prague, Salzburg, and Zagreb. Hardy Bouillon is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society (since 1992) and a member of many international and national societies and advisory boards.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYChristian Watrin
Professor emeritus at the University of Cologne. From 1971 to 1995 he was the director of the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne. The Institute is a stronghold of neoliberal economics. Christian Watrin has strong ties to neoliberal think tanks and foundations. President of the Mont Pelerin Society 2000-2002.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYRichard L. Stroup
Professor of economics at Montana State University. He is an expert on privatization, the environment, and Superfund. He is the coauthor of Economics: Public and Private Choice.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYThomas Stratmann
Professor at George Mason University, Department of Economics. James Buchanan Center for the Study of Public Choice. Ph.D, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1990.
ACADEMIC_EMPTYVictoria Curzon-Price
Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva and at the European Institute of the University of Geneva (1982-2008). She was appointed Director of the European Institute from 1994 to 1998, elected member of the Governing Council of the University of Geneva (2003-2007), and elected Deputy to the Parliament of the Canton of Geneva (2008-2009). She is currently on the Board of many research institutions and think tanks, and keeps up her interest in international trade, economic integration, institutional competition, and the current issues of political economy, as her publications show.