Warmest congratulations
by Israel Kirzner Warmest congratulations to Mario Rizzo on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Having been associated with Mario for close to a half-century (ever since, as he never forgets to remind...
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Dear Mario, Felicitations on your birthday. Your leadership and dedication have been a blessing to many in need of friendship and support. Your kindness and goodwill have helped our networks succeed....
View ArticleBest wishes from Boyan Jovanovic
All the best in the years ahead, Mario, and keep pushing. I am trying to do the same (I’m not far behind you age wise). As Yogi Berra said, “It’s not over til it’s over” Boyan
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Mario
by Steve Horwitz I’m not sure when I first met Mario, but it was probably when I was in grad school at GMU in the late 80s. Mario probably remembers it better than I do, mostly because, as Pete Boettke...
View ArticleMy appreciation of Mario Rizzo on his 70th birthday
by Tyler Cowen I believe I was only 19 years old when I first presented a paper to the NYU Austrian Economics colloquium, on Wicksell’s capital theory. I believe I was only 14 years old when I first...
View ArticleMon ami, Mario…
by Frederic Sautet I first met Mario Rizzo in 1995 while he was lecturing at a seminar in the US. I remember an evening I spent at his dinner table along with other students. I was shy and remained...
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Mario: On your 70th, I want to express my personal appreciation for your long career commitment to freedom in all its expressions–social, economic, political and intellectual. Vernon Smith
View Article¡Feliz Geburtstag!
by Pablo Duarte There is a growing community of economists around the world who now have a better sense of time and ignorance, a richer understanding of Austrian economics, classical liberalism, legal...
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by Roger Koppl Mario changed everything by writing The Economics of Time and Ignorance with Jerry O’Driscoll. That was the book that changed everything. I know; I was there. I had the incredible...
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by Mathieu Bédard On the occasion of Professor Mario Rizzo’s birthday, I’d like to take the opportunity to underline how great an influence he has had on my thinking. I was fortunate enough to first...
View ArticleAD MAIORA, Mario!
by Giandomenica Becchio On this special birthday, I wish Mario Rizzo all the best and I praise him for being a great Austrian economist and a great scholar. I always learn a lot when reading his works....
View ArticleHappy birthday to Mario, my longtime friend and associate
by Larry White Mario and I go back many years. Decades, if truth be told. When we first met (summer 1975 Austrian Economics conference in Hartford, CT, if I recall correctly) he was a graduate student...
View ArticleGreetings from the Upper West Side, a land far far away!
by Shruti Rajagopalan The occasion of Mario’s 70thbirthday gives me an opportunity to reminisce and write about his influence and our association. As a law and economics student in Europe, I was...
View ArticleA personal tribute
by Peter Lewin On the occasion of his 70th birthday I would like to pay tribute to Mario Rizzo. I beat him to this milestone by a few months and welcome him to the septuagenarian Austrian economist...
View ArticleMany happy returns to a 21st century Whig
by Nick Cowen I met Mario Rizzo in person for the first time just two years ago when I joined the Classical Liberal Institute. I have since had the pleasure of teaching alongside him on his course on...
View ArticleOn the dawn of your 8th decade…
by Sandy Ikeda Back in the early 1980s I took Industrial Organization (two semesters) with Mario in which I got a decent grounding (and not a bad grade) in Chicago-style I.O. and antitrust, which...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to a Great Mentor, Coauthor, and Friend
by Glen Whitman When I arrived at NYU in Fall of 1994, I knew Mario only as a distant scholarly figure, someone whose work I had read along with Hayek and Mises. He seemed as unapproachable as those...
View ArticleTanti auguri, professore!
by Malte Dold Two of my favorite articles by Mario Rizzo are “Abstract Morality for an Abstract Order: Liberalism’s Difficult Problem” (Supreme Court Economic Review, 2015) and “Behavioral Economics...
View ArticleMario Rizzo, Innovator and Master Teacher
by Jeffrey Tucker For one day last week, this blog ran a wonderful succession of articles that provide deep insight into the life and work of an influential intellectual. His name is Mario Rizzo,...
View ArticleReflections on the NYU Experience for Mario Rizzo’s 70th Birthday
by Robert P. Murphy Like many others, I have been enjoying the birthday wishes offered to Mario. (Happy birthday Mario!) But these notes of congratulation have also included reminiscences of the...
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