Steven Horwitz

1964–2021

Nationality: American

Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond

Steven Horwitz (1964 - 2021) was a Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise and Director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy in the Department of Economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University. He was also an Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center, a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, and the economics editor at Cato Institute’s libertarianism.org. He authored four books, the most recent being Austrian Economics: An Introduction. He wrote extensively on Hayek and Austrian economics, monetary theory and history, and American economic history, and was a frequent guest on radio and cable TV programs.