Eamonn Butler: Why Mises is Important

Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, rated one of the world's leading policy think-tanks. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and psychology, gaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1978.

During the 1970s he worked on pensions and welfare issues for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy in Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute.

Dr Butler is the author of Austrian Economics: A Primer, books on the pioneering economists Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith, as well as co-author of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls and books on intelligence testing. Some of his recent books include An Introduction to Economic Inequality and An Introduction to Entrepreneurship.

He contributes to the leading UK print and broadcast media on current issues, and his popular publications The Best Book on the Market, The Rotten State of Britain and The Alternative Manifesto attracted considerable attention. He has also contributed articles to national magazines and newspapers on subjects ranging from health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and welfare.