Mark Thornton
| Mark Thornton | |
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Mark Thornton
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| Born | June 7, 1960 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Field | Economic history, political economy, prohibitionism, history of economic thought |
| School or tradition |
Austrian School |
| Influences | Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Mark Thornton is an American economist of the Austrian School. He has written on the topic of prohibition of drugs, the economics of the American Civil War, and the "Skyscraper Index". He is a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute.
Thornton grew up in Geneva, New York in an Irish Catholic family of entrepreneurs who were "Democrat in politics".
Thornton received his B.S. from St. Bonaventure University (1982), and his Ph.D. from Auburn University (1989). Thornton taught economics at Auburn University. He formerly taught at Columbus State University and is now a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, where he is book review editor for its Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He has written about prohibition-related issues.
Thornton's first book, The Economics of Prohibition, was praised by Thornton's supervisor at the Mises Institute, its vice-president Murray Rothbard, who is quoted on the book cover of the 2007 edition as writing: "Thornton's book... arrives to fill an enormous gap, and it does so splendidly...This is an excellent work making an important contribution to scholarship as well as to the public policy debate." Reviewer David R. Henderson of the Hoover Institution wrote, "Thornton’s book contains much valuable information on prohibition and cites many sources. But the economically literate book on prohibition that makes a case for legalization has yet to be written."
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