Cato Institute people

American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)

President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013

American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)

American economist (1930-2014)

British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American conservative political commentator who hosts Tucker on X and The Tucker Carlson Show since 2023. He previously hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023, when his contract with Fox News was terminated. A longtime advocate of U.S. president Donald Trump, Carlson has been described as a high-profile proponent of Trumpism, and an influential voice in right-wing media. In 2026, Carlson publicly withdrew his support for Trump and apologized for "misleading" people into supporting him.

American economist (1926–1995)

Canadian economist (1932–2021)

American economist (1940-2022)

American economist

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)

American billionaire and businessman

American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)

American magician and actor (born 1955)

American economist (*1939)

American music critic, born 1925 (1925–2017)

Russian politician

American economist, columnist and blogger

Russian-American writer

American economist and author (b. 1971)

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American magician

1944- American economist

American economist (1933–2011)

American libertarian author and editor (1953-2024)

Chilean economist and free market reformer

American neoliberal economist

American legal scholar (1943-)

Hungarian-American philosopher

American climatologist (1950–2022)

American commodities speculator

U.S.-American money manager

American legal scholar

American writer

journalist from the United States

American libertarian activist

American economist

Indian-born British economist

libertarian economist

American economist (1924-2018)

American economist (1951–2001)

American law school professor

Indian journalist

economist and Federal Reserve Bank executive

American libertarian philosopher and intellectual historian