Biography
Fekete was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1932. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in mathematics in 1955. He immigrated to Canada in 1957 and received an M.Sc. from the University of Ottawa. He was appointed assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1958. He retired with the rank of full professor in 1992.
During this period, Fekete also had tours of duty as visiting professor at Columbia University (1961), Trinity College (1964), Acadia University (1970), and Princeton University (1974).
After retirement, Fekete was Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York). Following that, he taught Austrian economics as visiting professor at the Francisco Marroquín Universityin 1995. In 1996 he won the first prize of the essay competition of Bank Lips, Switzerland, with his entry, "Whither Gold?" His essay was published the same year and a second edition was printed in 1998. In 2001 he was appointed consulting professor at Sapientia University. Since 2005 he has been "professor at large" of the Intermountain Institute for Science and Applied Mathematics (Missoula, Montana). Fekete currently runs the New Austrian School of Economics (Münich, (Germany). His book Le retour au standard or was published in Paris in 2011
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