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Wolf von Laer

CEO

Students For Liberty

Dr. Wolf von Laer is the Chief Executive Officer of Students For Liberty (SFL). He has worked as a lecturer and instructor in Economics at Northeastern University and as a teaching assistant to Dr. Emily Skarbek at King’s College London. Wolf has lived and studied in the U.S., Turkey, Spain, Germany, the UK, Sweden, and Argentina. 

He has published several book chapters, a book about central banking, and a peer-reviewed journal article. 

Wolf has appeared in the Wallstreet Journal, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Huffington Post, Bitcoin Magazine, Coindesk, and CSPAN. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. His website is www.wolfvonlaer.com.

Wolf holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from King’s College London, an M.A. in the Economics of Austrian School from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and a Double B.A. in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Erfurt.

Blog Posts

For a freer future, we must move beyond the culture war

October 6, 2022
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Democracy and Voting

Over the past decade, growing resentment of an unchanging political status quo has created an environment where populism and tribalism thrive. To make matters worse, politicians on the left and right in America have capitalized on these grievances.  This is the hyperpartisan culture war, where increasingly radical and uncompromising political factions seek to leverage our division to cement their own power.  If we want a better future, we must reject divisiveness and address the deep-rooted causes of this problem. Failing to do so will see this hostility spinning further out of