The complexity of these issues is great.  Within Austrian circles for  
example Rothbard worked with Joseph Dorfman yet he always claimed as  
his teacher Ludwig von Mises.  Lachmann worked with Sombart, but  
again claims it was reading Mises's essays in the 1920s that  
facinated him, and then he worked with Hayek at the LSE in the 1930s. 
Even Hayek did not study with Mises technically, but it was Mises  
that influenced him more than any other scholar. 
 
Many Austrians, Gerald O'Driscoll and Larry White, worked closely  
with Axel Leijonhufvud at UCLA, as did many work with Alchian and  
Demsetz as well.  Rizzo worked with Landes and Stigler at Chicago. 
 
At George Mason University in the 1980s, students were as exposed to  
Austrian economics as they were to public choice economics.  Buchanan  
and Tullock were extremely influential on students working in the  
Austrian program.  In the case of Dave Prychitko and myself, Kenneth  
Boulding  -- who taught at GMU during our time there for two years --  
was also very influential in terms of thought processes.  Prychitko  
later went as a post-doc to study with Vanek at Cornell, and in my  
case the work of Warren Samuels has been very influential on my  
perception of where the project of economics must go and what  
questions we should ask [even if I don't always agree with Warren's  
answers :)).. 
 
At Auburn University today the only Austrian on the full-time faculty  
is Roger Garrison.  Ekelund and Hebert, however, are the major  
influences in the department from what I understand. So Austrian  
economics even at one of its orthodox centers of thought, the LvM  
Institute, does not generate students without cross influences  
educationally. 
 
A family tree would be important and interesting to construct, but I  
don't know if PhD training as much as "thought" would really capture  
the idea.  And the cross fertlization that makes growth of knowledge  
possible complicated matters further.  I am pretty sure that the  
story of Austrian economics is no different than other schools of  
thought within economics. 
 
Pete 
 
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