Ralph Raico delivering a lecture at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, AL
Ralph Raico is a libertarian professor of history at Buffalo State College (USA), and a specialist of European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. Raico was a student of Ludwig von Mises and originally learned German at his suggestion. Raico is a senior faculty member at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Editor of the New Individualist Review, along with Ronald Hamoway, a journal initially sponsored by the University of Chicago chapter of the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. It declared itself "founded in a committment 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 by 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.
In 1999, Raico wrote Die Partei der Freiheit: Studien zur Geschichte des deutschen Liberalismus, a German-language book discussing the liberal tradition in Germany.
In 2000, Raico was awarded the "Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty" by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.[1]
He was also a founding member and poet laureate of the renowned Circle Bastiat.
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