# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:17:59.375Z

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name: "Mark Thornton"
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description: "Mark Thornton is an American economist of the Austrian School. He has written on the topic of prohibition of drugs, the economics of the American Civil War, and the \"Skyscraper Index\". He is a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute."
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birthDate: "1960-06-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump