Anthony de Jasay (1925–2019) was a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He also was an independent scholar and author who was educated at Szekesfehervar and Budapest, taking a degree in agriculture. In 1947-48 he worked as a free-lance journalist, his activity forcing him to flee from the country in 1948. After two years in Austria, he emigrated to Australia in 1950 and took a part-time course in economics at the University of Western Australia. Winning a Hackett Studentship, he went to Oxford in 1955 and was elected a research fellow of Nuffield College where he stayed till 1962, publishing papers in the Economic Journal, Journal of Political Economy and other learned journals.