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Ralph Raico is an American Historian , Libertarian , and specialist in European Classical Liberalism and Austrian Economics . He is currently a professor of history at Buffalo State College and a senior faculty member at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute . Raico was a student of Ludwig Von Mises and learned German at Mises' suggestion. Raico translated Mises' '' Liberalismus '' into English. Raico was the editor of the New Individualist Review , along with Ronald Hamowy , a journal initially sponsored by the University Of Chicago chapter of the Intercollegiate Society Of Individualists . It declared itself "founded in a commitment to liberty." The first article of the first edition was titled "Capitalism and Freedom." Milton Friedman , F.A. Hayek , and Richard M. Weaver were the first faculty advisors, later to be joined by George Stigler and Benjamin Rogge . Between 1961 and 1968, seventeen issues were published including articles by Russell Kirk , William F. Buckley, Jr. , Ludwig Von Mises , and Murray N. Rothbard . The complete run of the magazine is available from Liberty Fund . In his introduction to this reprint edition, Milton Friedman—one of the magazine's faculty advisors—writes that the Review set "an intellectual standard that has not yet, I believe, been matched by any of the more recent publications in the same philosophical tradition." Raico was also a founding member of the Circle Bastiat , and was considered its poet laureate. In tradition in Germany . In 2000 , Raico was awarded the "Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty" by the Mises Institute. {Link without Title} In 2006 , Raico became one of the charter members of the Property And Freedom Society , which was founded at the instigation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe as a more radical counterpart to the Mont Pelerin Society . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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