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Advancing the Scholarship of Liberty in the Tradition of the Austrian School

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June 29, 2004 by Walter Block

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My memo on graduate schools and Austrian economics has been update, and I’ve also worked on another memo that concerns other social sciences:

Both are permanent links from the fellowship page.

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Jim Waddell June 29, 2004 at 9:45 am: One school that is worth examining for inclusion on the list is the University of Rochester (NY), both for its progam in economics as well as the William E. Simon shool of Business Administration.

I graduated from Simon (MBA, not PhD, though they do offer PhDs) in 1996. The professors were generally free-market in orientation. The Chicago school viewpoint was very common, in fact a number of professors at Roshester are Chicago PhDs, among them Ron Hansen, Gregg Jarrell, former dean Charles Plosser, G. William Schwert, Jerold Warner, and Ross Watts. I am not aware of any Austrians on the faculty, but it is a possibility.

http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/faculty/faculty_directory.aspx(Link)

I don’t know much about the PhD program in economics, other than that if features Walter Oi, who testified in favor of ending the military draft back in the early 1970s.

http://www.econ.rochester.edu/People.html
Academic Freedom March 4, 2006 at 2:33 pm: Walter Williams is convincing me not to go to George Mason University’s Economics program.

This former department chairman held any economics professor *under suspicion* for not supporting his simplistic free market views. (See *A dynamite economics department* article.) Now he hates Jay Bennish for discussing US policies’ international problems.

I argue with left and right teachers because I want to think.

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