Steven Horwitz

Steven Horwitz is a professor of economics at St. Lawrence; he is also the current associate dean of the first year. A distinguished scholar, he is the author of two books on Austrian economics and monetary and banking systems.

Horwitz currently serves as the book review editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and as an academic advisor for the Heartland Institute. From 1993 to 1998, he held the Flora Irene Eggleston Faculty Chair at St. Lawrence University, where he also was awarded the prestigious Frank P. Piskor Lectureship for 1998-99.

What many don’t know about this committed scholar and teacher is that he is a hardcore music fan, particularly of the Canadian rock band Rush. “Their music has enabled me to celebrate the good and survive the bad in my life,” he says. “No one completely understands why particular sequences of notes and chords generate the emotional responses they do, but they do indeed touch the heart,” says Horwitz, who has recently created an online database of book reviews devoted to volumes on progressive rock. In his free time he likes to dabble in technology and web design.

Horwitz completed his MA and Ph.D. in economics at George Mason University, having received his BA in economics and philosophy from The University of Michigan.