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Paul Cwik and Shawn Ritenour trace what happened to the Austrian school after Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser — as it spread beyond Vienna and produced a generation of thinkers most students never encounter. Philip Wicksteed, the Unitarian minister who dispensed with the supply curve; William Smart, who gave English readers Böhm-Bawerk; Herbert Davenport and Frank Fetter, the core of the American school; and Richard von Strigl, the last Austrian in Vienna. Then the harder question: why that flourishing stalled, and what it took to revive it.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2026.
Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.
0:00 Intro: Austrian Economists You May Not Know
1:14 Carl Menger, the Fountainhead
3:22 Böhm-Bawerk and Wieser
8:19 The Lesser-Known Austrians: An Overview
10:09 Knut Wicksell and Franz Čuhel
11:07 Philip Wicksteed
16:01 William Smart
18:17 Herbert J. Davenport
30:07 Frank Fetter
32:45 Richard von Strigl
35:37 The Demise of the Austro-American School
40:22 Marshall's Rise and the Rebirth of Austrian Economics
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Paul Cwik and Shawn Ritenour trace what happened to the Austrian school after Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser — as it spread beyond Vienna and produced a generation of thinkers most students never encounter. Philip Wicksteed, the Unitarian minister who dispensed with the supply curve; William Smart, who gave English readers Böhm-Bawerk; Herbert Davenport and Frank Fetter, the core of the American school; and Richard von Strigl, the last Austrian in Vienna. Then the harder question: why that flourishing stalled, and what it took to revive it.
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2026.
Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.
0:00 Intro: Austrian Economists You May Not Know
1:14 Carl Menger, the Fountainhead
3:22 Böhm-Bawerk and Wieser
8:19 The Lesser-Known Austrians: An Overview
10:09 Knut Wicksell and Franz Čuhel
11:07 Philip Wicksteed
16:01 William Smart
18:17 Herbert J. Davenport
30:07 Frank Fetter
32:45 Richard von Strigl
35:37 The Demise of the Austro-American School
40:22 Marshall's Rise and the Rebirth of Austrian Economics
Find free books, daily articles, podcasts, lecture series, and everything about the Austrian School of Economics at https://Mises.org.
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Apple Podcasts ► podcasts.apple.com/us/artist/mises-institute/1280664810
Rumble ► rumble.com/c/c-2212754
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Podcasts ► mises.org/podcasts
