Daniel Nientiedt

Daniel Nientiedt is a research group leader at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg, Germany. His areas of interest include public choice, constitutional economics, and the history of economic thought. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Economics at New York University, and a research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Freiburg in 2020.

Carl Schmitt and the Origins of Friedrich Hayek’s Thought on Rent-Seeking

Friedrich Hayek viewed the subject of rent-seeking not from the usual welfare economics perspective, but from a constitutional economics perspective. In a new paper,...

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