In June 2021, classical liberal economics lost one of its most able and prolific voices. Scholar, teacher, and public communicator Steven G. Horwitz died of multiple myeloma at the far too young age of fifty-seven. A native of the Detroit area, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1985 with an AB in economics and philosophy. He continued his studies at George Mason University, where he earned a MA in 1987 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1990.
Steve joined the economics faculty at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, in 1989. He rose through the ranks to professor and retired in 2017 as the Dana Professor of Economics. During his time at SLU, he served as associate dean of the first-year experience from 2001 to 2007. In 2017, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the Department of Economics and founding director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy (ISPE) in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
In addition to his university affiliations, Steve served as an editor, writer, and conference discussion leader for numerous free-market organizations, including the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Mercatus Center, the Indiana Humanities Council, and the Future of Freedom Foundation. This list is not exhaustive. He also was founding editor of the website Bleeding Heart Libertarians. Upon his move to Indiana, he became unofficially a “senior visiting intern” at Liberty Fund
