-      Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk (12.Feburary 1851 –27.August 1914)

He made important contributions to the development of Austrian economics.

-      Freidrich Hayek (8.May 1899 – 23.March 1992)

He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 with Gunnar Myrdal and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. He is seen as one of the most important economists of the 20^thcentury.

-      Rudolf Hilferding (10.August 1877 – 11.February1941)

The Austrian Marxist economist was the first to propose organized capitalism. Furthermore, he was defending Marxagainst fellow Austrian economists.

-      Leopold Kohr (5.October 1909 – 26.February 1994)

He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1983.  Leopold Kohr believed in anarchism.

-      Carl Menger (28.February 1840 – 26.Feburary1921)

The Austrian economist is very famous for founding the Austrian school of economics and for contributing tothe theory of marginal utility.

-      Ludwig von Mises (29.Septmeber 1881 – 10.October1973)

Mises is seen as one of the leaders of the Austrian school of economics. He taught classical liberalism. The Ludwigcon Mises Institute is named after him.

-      Oscar Morgenstern (24.January 1902 – 26.July1977)

Together with John von Neumann, he found the mathematical field of the game theory. Morgenstern received a three-year fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation and stayed in the USA in order to become a member of the faculty of the Princeton University.

-      Joseph Schumpeter ( 8.February 1883 – 8.January1950)

The economist and politicalscientist was one of the most influential economist of the 20^thcentury. He wrote an immense amount of works and taught at various schools including the Harvard University.

-      Othmar Spann (1.October 1878 – 8.July 1950)

The conservative economist based most of his views on 19^th century Romantic ideas.

-      Friedrich von Wieser (10.July 1851 – 22.July 1926)

He was the successor of Carl Menger.