1906 - 1990

Nationality:
German

Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond

Groups

• The Austrian School of Economics

Lachmann was a German born member of the Austrian school of economics founded by Carl Menger and Boehm-Bawerk. He studied at the London School of Economics in the 1930s, taught at the University of Wiwatersrand in South Africa and wrote seminal material on Austrian capital theory.

Titles:

• Author: Capital and its Structure
• Author: Capital, Expectations, and the Market Process
• Author: The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics (1976)
• Author: New Directions in Austrian Economics

Quotations:

• Ludwig Lachmann and the free market as a leveling process in the distribution of wealth (1956)

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