Mark Thornton

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Mark Thornton
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    Mark Thornton (born June 7, 1960) is an American

    Ludwig von Mises Institute[3] in Alabama and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute.[4]

    Life and academic career

    business cycles
    during the 2008 Mises University conference

    Thornton grew up in Geneva, New York, in an Irish Catholic family of entrepreneurs who were "Democrat in politics".[5]

    Thornton received his

    Ludwig von Mises Institute,[3] where he is book review editor for its Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.[7] As a writer for the Mises Institute, he is known for warning of a housing bubble in 2004.[8] He has written about prohibition-related issues.[5]

    Prohibition studies

    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."[9] 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."[10] Thornton debated the War on Drugs at Oxford Union in 2014.

    Libertarian organizations have published Thornton's articles on drug and alcohol prohibition, and he was once interviewed on the topic of prohibition by Agence France-Presse.[11][12][13] Thornton contributed a chapter to Jefferson Fish's book How to Legalize Drugs.[14]

    Political activities

    Thornton ran for

    1996. He was also endorsed by the Reform Party, and came in third of four candidates.[16]

    Books

    • The Economics of Prohibition. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1991. (
      ISBN 0-87480-379-9
      )
    • ISBN 0-8420-2961-3
      )
    • The Quotable Mises (editor). Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005. (
      ISBN 0-945466-45-5
      )
    • The Bastiat Collection (editor). Volume 1 and Volume 2. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. (
      ISBN 978-1-933550-07-7
      )
    • An Essay on Economic Theory: An English translation of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Thornton, editor; Chantal Saucier, translator) Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010. (
      ISBN 978-1-61016-001-8
      )

    See also

    References

    1. LewRockwell.com
    2. Barron's
      . The U.S. has a new tallest building—One World Trade Center in New York—and that has conjured up some novel reading of economic tea leaves.
    3. ^
      Ludwig von Mises Institute
      website, accessed December 21, 2013.
    4. ^ Mark Thornton biography page at Independent Institute website, accessed December 21, 2013.
    5. ^
      Washington Times
      , March 24, 2013.
    6. ^ "Mark Thornton". Mises Institute. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
    7. ^ Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics website Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine.
    8. ^ "When Mainstream Economics Was Wrong, Mark Thornton Was Right – Investing Video & Audio Jay Taylor Media". jaytaylormedia.com.
    9. ISBN 1610164652
    10. ^ Henderson, David. "Review of Economics of Prohibition" (PDF). Cato Journal. 13 (1): 152–154.
    11. ^ "US drinks to 75 years since end of Prohibition." Agence France-Presse. Hosted by Google. 4 December 2008. [1]
    12. ^ Thornton, Mark. "Prohibition versus Legalization: Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Drug Policy?" Independent Institute. The Independent Review. Winter 2007. [2]
    13. ^ Thornton, Mark. "Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure." Policy Analysis no. 157. Cato Institute. 17 July 1991. [3]
    14. ISBN 978-0765701510
    15. ^ Gadsden Times, Nov 4, 1984.
    16. ^ a b Mark Thornton faculty page Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine, Ludwig Von Mises Institute website, accessed December 21, 2013.

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