[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-rahim-taghizadegan":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany. As one of the last Viennese polymaths, he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur.","He has written more than a dozen books, some of them best-sellers, and is the founder of the private university Scholarium in Vienna, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form of the Hayek- and Mises-Circles. He is originally from Iran, but has grown up in Austria and studied in Switzerland and the US.","He moved the Scholarium to Zug in Switzerland in 2024, and has held lectureships in Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany. He studied physics, economics and sociology in Vienna and Lausanne.","He was among the first Austrian economists to take Bitcoin seriously, teaching and publishing on it since 2011, and he now builds what he calls citadels: small, defensible communities in Europe founded on sound money and self-reliance, of which Citadel.Garden is his own.",1788062487008]