22 Facts About Steven Horwitz

Steven G Horwitz was an American economist of the Austrian School.

Steven Horwitz was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Ronald and Carol Steven Horwitz.

Steven Horwitz was raised in Oak Park, Michigan, and graduated from Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan, in 1981.

In 1989, Steven Horwitz joined the economics department of St Lawrence University in Canton, New York.

Steven Horwitz was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1995 and to full professor in 2002.

In 2007, Horwitz was elected by the faculty to one of six campus-wide Charles A Dana Professorships.

At St Lawrence, Steven Horwitz served as the associate dean of the first year from 2001 to 2007, overseeing the university's First Year Program.

Steven Horwitz consulted with other schools on living-learning programs and on teaching research and communication skills to first-year students.

In fall 2017, Steven Horwitz joined the department of economics at Ball State University as distinguished professor of free enterprise.

Steven Horwitz was the director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy.

Steven Horwitz was a long-time faculty member at the summer seminars of the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.

Steven Horwitz was a senior affiliated scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where he had conducted research on the role of Wal-Mart and the Coast Guard in the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Steven Horwitz was a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute in Canada and had been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1996.

Steven Horwitz had contributed to Austrian economics and the history of economic thought, as well as the social thought of F A Hayek.

Steven Horwitz's "Open Letter to My Friends on the Left" in September 2008 was a widely read libertarian analysis of the mortgage crisis and has been translated into five languages.

Steven Horwitz was a frequent op-ed contributor to major newspapers and appeared on numerous radio shows as well as TV appearances on Stossel, Freedom Watch, and Smerconish on CNN.

Steven Horwitz identified himself as a bleeding-heart libertarian and was a regular contributor to the Bleeding Heart Libertarians weblog.

Outside of his professional interests, Steven Horwitz was a fan of hockey, especially the Detroit Red Wings, and classic rock, especially Rush.

Steven Horwitz wrote two scholarly articles on Rush in 2003.

Steven Horwitz was public about his treatment and raised funds for multiple myeloma research on social media and in interviews.

Steven Horwitz was married to Sarah Skwire, a senior fellow and director of communications at Liberty Fund, and they resided in Fishers, Indiana, with her two daughters.

Steven Horwitz had two children, Andrew and Rachel, from a previous marriage.