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Thomas J. DiLorenzo (born 1954) is an American economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
 professor
Professor

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 at Loyola College in Maryland
Loyola College in Maryland

Loyola College in Maryland, to be renamed as Loyola University Maryland on August 15, 2009, pending approval by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, is a Roman Catholic Church, Society of Jesus private university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States....
. He is an adherent of the Austrian School
Austrian School

The Austrian School is a Heterodox economics school of economics. It emphasizes the spontaneous organizing power of the price mechanism, holds that the complexity of subjective human choices makes mathematical modelling of the evolving market extremely difficult and therefore advocates a laissez faire approach to the economy....
 of Economics. He is a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a right-libertarianism academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy....
 and an affiliated scholar of the League of the South Institute, the research arm of the League of the South
League of the South

The League of the South is a Southern United States nationalism organization whose ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic." The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederate States of America....
 and the Abbeville Institute.






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Thomas J. DiLorenzo (born 1954) is an American economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
 professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 at Loyola College in Maryland
Loyola College in Maryland

Loyola College in Maryland, to be renamed as Loyola University Maryland on August 15, 2009, pending approval by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, is a Roman Catholic Church, Society of Jesus private university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States....
. He is an adherent of the Austrian School
Austrian School

The Austrian School is a Heterodox economics school of economics. It emphasizes the spontaneous organizing power of the price mechanism, holds that the complexity of subjective human choices makes mathematical modelling of the evolving market extremely difficult and therefore advocates a laissez faire approach to the economy....
 of Economics. He is a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a right-libertarianism academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy....
 and an affiliated scholar of the League of the South Institute, the research arm of the League of the South
League of the South

The League of the South is a Southern United States nationalism organization whose ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic." The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederate States of America....
 and the Abbeville Institute. He holds a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 in Economics from Virginia Tech.

DiLorenzo has authored at least ten books, including The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
The Real Lincoln

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War is a biography of Abraham Lincoln written by Thomas DiLorenzo in 2002....
, How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present, and Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe. DiLorenzo has spoken out in favor of the secession of the Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
, defending its right to secede in a view similar to that of abolitionist Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, Abolitionism, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the 19th century....
. He has also criticized the crediting of the New Deal
New Deal

The New Deal was the name that United States President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the Economy of the Unite...
 for ending the Great Depression
Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
.

DiLorenzo lectures widely, and is a frequent speaker at Mises Institute events.

External links

  • Lectures by DiLorenzo at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
    Ludwig von Mises Institute

    The Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a right-libertarianism academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy....
    .
  • for the Mises Institute.
  • for The Independent Institute
  • for LewRockwell.com
    LewRockwell.com

    LewRockwell.com is a widely read 501#501.28c.29.284.29 libertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert , Lew Rockwell , Eric Garris , and others associated with the Center for Libertarian Studies ; its motto is "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market"....
  • - a debate between Thomas DiLorenzo and Harry V. Jaffa
    Harry V. Jaffa

    Harry V. Jaffa is a conservative author and distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute, a California think tank.He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and a Ph.D....
  • by Thomas Krannawitter of the Claremont Institute
  • by Clyde N. Wilson
    Clyde N. Wilson

    Clyde N. Wilson is a Distinguished Professor of history at the University of South Carolina, United States, a paleoconservatism political commentator, a long-time contributing editor for Chronicles and Southern Partisan magazine, and an occasional contributor to National Review....
  • in the " Southern Partisan
    Southern Partisan

    Southern Partisan is a political magazine published in the United States founded in 1979 that focuses on its Southern region and those states that were formerly members of the Confederate States of America....
    ".
  • on C-SPAN discussing his two books about Abraham Lincoln.