Auke R. Leen was born in 1953 in the Netherlands. At the Erasmus University in Rotterdam he studied economics and philosophy. After working at the Ministry of Economics as the deputy head of the department of financial consumer affairs, he has worked as an assistant professor of economics at Wageningen University and presently is working at Leiden University. He has specialized in the history of economic thought, modern-Austrian economics and the economic analysis of law. His publications include: The Consumer in Austrian Economics and the Austrian Perspective on Consumer Policy (1999) and A Great Revolution in Economics-Vienna 1871 and after (with Lazaros Houmanidis) (2001), as well as numerous articles in different areas of economic theory and policy.