# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-block
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:05:28.605Z

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name: "Walter Block"
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description: "Walter Edward Block is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a former senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump