Authors :: Studia Humana

Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. His publications include The Economics of Prohibition (1991), Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (2004), The Quotable Mises (2005), The Bastiat Collection (2007), An Essay on Economic Theory (2010), The Bastiat Reader (2014), and The Skyscraper Curse and How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Crisis of the Last Century (2018).
Dr. Thornton served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies and several other academic journals. He has served as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas. Mark served as Assistant Superintendent of Banking and economic adviser to Governor Fob James of Alabama (1997-1999), and he was awarded the University Research Award at Columbus State University in 2002. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and received his PhD in economics from Auburn University. In 2014, he debated in opposition to the "War on Drugs" at Oxford Union.
Dr. Thornton has been featured in American Spectator, Barron's, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, Forbes, Investors' Business Daily, Le Monde, New York Post, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Economic Times (India), Financial Times (Norway), and Tejarat-e-Farda (Iran). He has also had regular multiple appearances on Russia Today and Press TV.
His editorials and interviews have appeared in the following leading regional newspapers: Apple Daily (Hong Kong), Atlanta Constitution, Birmingham News, Business Alabama, Chicago Sun-Times, Houston Chronicle, Mobile Press Register, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, Montgomery Advertiser, New York Post, Orange County Register, Richmond Times Dispatch, Tampa Tribune, and the Washington Times.
His commentary appears regularly in the Mises Daily and the Mises Wire. He also appears regularly on "Boom-Bust," "RT," "Butler on Business," "Tom Woods Show," "Thom Hartmann Show," "Scott Horton Show," "Press TV and "Freedom Works."

Eduardo Blasco

Eduardo Blasco is a master’s student at the London School of Economics. Eduardo holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a bachelor of Laws from the Univeristy of Valencia. Eduardo is interested in the biggest challenges to anarcho-capitalism, such as private justice and private defense. Eduardo is a self-proclaimed (Walter) Blockean. Eduardo writes for the Instituto Juan de Mariana.

Mike Holmes

Mike Holmes was raised in Helena Montana and moved to Houston Texas in 1969 to attend Rice University. He graduated with a BA in economics/philosophy and received a Master’s Degree in Accounting. He resides there after retiring in 2019 from a long accounting career. The Houston area was a major incubation site of the early libertarian movement. Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul was elected in the late 70s from the Houston suburb of Lake Jackson. Paul is considered the most important modern libertarian political officeholder to date.
Holmes was one of two Texas delegates to the founding Libertarian Party convention in June 1972. He was later a founding member of the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) in 1991. He served as founding Treasurer of the Republican Liberty Federal Campaign Fund PAC (1992-2001). Holmes edited the party newspaper Libertarian Party News (1984-85) and subsequently, American Libertarian (independent newspaper, 1986-1988). He also served as Senior Editor of the RLC’s Republican Liberty (1991-2000). He occasionally contributes to websites Antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com.

Sukrit Sabhlok

Sukrit Sabhlok is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University Law School, where he is completing a thesis on the legality of Western Australia's unilateral secession from the Australian federation. Between 2012 to 2015, Sukrit was editor of the Journal of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom. In addition, he has authored articles for Indian Link, the Centre for Independent Studies, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Foundation for Economic Education. He also contributed the foreword to the book Mencken's Conservatism.

Anthony J. Cesario

Anthony J. Cesario is an undergraduate student studying economics at Loyola University, New Orleans.

David Iglesias

David Iglesias is an undergraduate student studying economics at Loyola University New Orleans.

Pedro J. Caranti

Pedro J. Caranti is a native of Argentina and he currently lives and works in Chicago, IL at an inner-city mentoring program. He received a BA in Economics from the University of Dallas in 2018 after completing his Senior Thesis on the School of Salamanca and being awarded with Economics Award for the Class of 2018.

Leith B. Edgar

Free inquirer L.B. Edgar currently studies free enterprise at Loyola University New Orleans, (also known as Social Justice University) in Louisiana. An enthusiastic practitioner of praxeology, he prefers voluntary social and economic relationships to the alternative systems abounding the world over.

Milton Kiang

Milton Kiang is a former Canadian and Hong Kong lawyer, having lived in Hong Kong for 13 years. He currently resides in Vancouver, Canada and runs an executive resume service for senior management called Channel Resume, https://www.channelresume.ca/

Lucas Maciel Bueno

Lucas Maciel Bueno was born in Brazil, on February 18th, 2004. He is a high school student, currently attending Hammond High School (2019-2020), in Columbia, MD, USA. Lucas started studying the Austrian School of Economics and Libertarianism in 2018. He is interested in the libertarian legal theory, in Hoppe's Argumentation Ethics, and Kinsella's estoppel. With his studies, he wants to bring libertarian ideas to his country, which is dominated by statist culture.