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Mario Rizzo

Affiliation: New York University

Dr. Mario J. Rizzo is associate professor of economics and co-director of the Austrian Economics Program at New York University. He was also a fellow in law and economics at the University of Chicago and at Yale University.

Professor Rizzo's major fields of research has been law-and economics and ethics-and economics, as well as Austrian economics. He has been the director of at least fifteen major research conferences, the proceedings of which have often been published.

Professor Rizzo received his BA from Fordham University, and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

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Mario Rizzo's Latest Articles | 64

The Just Distribution of Income and Wealth

Dec 26, 2011| 

There has been a lot of talk this year, and especially during the holiday season, about the inequities in the distribution of wealth and income. But most of what... Read »

How’s Your Compulsory Holiday Giving Coming Along?

Dec 26, 2011| 

I wish people would perform the following intellectual experiment. Find out how much in federal taxes you have paid in the past year. Don’t worry about making... Read »

Hayek on the Large Corporation (aka “Breaking up Big Banks?”)

Dec 16, 2011| 

For those who enjoy trying to figure out what important thinkers might have thought about specific issues they never faced (and I am one of them!), the following... Read »

The Free Market versus Crony “Capitalism”

Dec 12, 2011| 

Nearby is a Venn diagram showing the intersection between Goldman Sachs and the federal government: people who before or after were attached to both. This is one... Read »

Sliding Toward the Individual Health Insurance Mandate: An Absurdist Analysis

Nov 17, 2011| 1

I am not an expert in US Constitutional law, but I am not totally uninformed either. And yet (or because of this) I was shocked to see the completely crazy “analysis”... Read »

The Rule of Discretion versus the Rule of Law: Soros Gets Nailed

Oct 14, 2011| 1

In a previous post I reported a Cato Institute panel discussion of Friedrich Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty (as reissued in a new edition by The University... Read »

The Führer Principle – Light

Aug 13, 2011| 

David Gergen has written a piece decrying the lack of leadership on the debt-deficit “crisis” and calling for a new Churchill. David Gergen, who saw no problem... Read »

Politically Feasible

Aug 8, 2011| 

Many years ago, the distinguished economist, William H. Hutt, wrote a pamphlet called “Politically Impossible?” He argued that economists should not seek political... Read »

A Moment of Truth in the Debt-Ceiling Impasse?

Jul 31, 2011| 

The difference between a conservative and a classical liberal/libertarian once again is manifest. The conservative wants to get the debt crisis over with even at... Read »

Healthcare as Social Planning

Jul 22, 2011| 

Although I am an advocate of voluntary birth control, I am not happy about (1) the equation of this choice with healthcare – even preventative healthcare (as... Read »

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