Donald Charles Lavoie was an American economist of the Austrian School.
10 Facts About Don Lavoie
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Don Lavoie was influenced by Friedrich Hayek, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michael Polanyi and Ludwig Lachmann.
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Don Lavoie wrote two books on the problem of economic calculation.
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Don Lavoie then earned a PhD in economics in 1981 from New York University under Israel Kirzner.
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Don Lavoie's thesis was entitled Rivalry and central planning: a re-examination of the debate over economic calculation under socialism.
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Don Lavoie joined the faculty of the economics department of George Mason University as an assistant professor in 1981.
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Don Lavoie knew the importance for organizations of new ways of cultivating interactive learning environments in order to enhance communicative processes.
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Don Lavoie showed the fundamental nature of social learning processes, whether in market exchanges, in verbal conversations, or in hypertext-based dialogue.
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Don Lavoie's effort drew criticism from several members of the Austrian School associated with the Mises Institute, especially Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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Don Lavoie was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the spring of 2001.