Hans L. Eicholz

Hans L. Eicholz is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., an educational foundation based in Carmel, Indiana. After recieving his doctoral degree in American history from UCLA in 1992, he taught briefly for both UCLA and the California State University at Los Angeles, assuming his current position in 1993. Much of his work has been in the history of economic thought, looking initially at the influence of market ideas during the American founding period, but also extending up to nineteenth-century United States and German history. He is the author of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government (2001), a contributor to The Constitutionalism of American States (2008) and more recently "The End or Ends of Social History?" in Michael Douma and Philip Magness’s What Is Classical Liberal History? (2018).