Frank Fetter

Frank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian School. Fetters treatise, The Principles of Economics, contributed to an increased American interest in the Austrian School, including the theories of Eugen von BhmBawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.

Frank Fetter was born in Peru, Indiana to a Quaker family during the height of the American Civil War. Fetter proved an able student as a youth, as demonstrated by his acceptance to Indiana University in 1879 when he was only sixteen years old. At Indiana, he joined the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Fetter was on track to graduate with the class of 1883, but left college to run his familys bookstore upon news of his fathers declining health. Working in the bookstore offered an opportunity for the young man to acquaint himself with some of the economic ideas that would later prove formative. Chief among the intellectual influences Fetter encountered at this time was Henry Georges Progress and Poverty .

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