Austrian Economics Article

What Are the Bears Missing?

January 31, 2000

Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots January 2000 What Are the Bears Missing? By Mark Skousen “He has been wrong about the stock market for a decade, he said, because he is a contrarian.” — The New York Times, December 26, 1999 The 1990s has turned out to be the best-performing decade of the 20th century [...]

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The Other Austrian

October 31, 1999

Discovery LIBERTY Magazine The Other Austrian By Mark Skousen Swashbuckling corporate raiders take heed, here’s another Austrian economist offering advice. Peter F. Drucker once walked into the boardroom of a major company in crisis and bluntly demanded, “Gentlemen, what is your business?” Most of the executives thought it was a sophomoric question, but Drucker kept [...]

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The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson’s “Economics”

September 5, 1999

Journal of Economic Perspectives By Mark Skousen Paul Samuelson’s Economics ranks with the most successful textbooks ever published in the field, including the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Alfred Marshall. His 15 editions have sold over four million copies and have been translated into 41 languages (see Table 1). My [...]

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Getting Published–An “Austrian” Triumph

September 5, 1998

Economics on Trial — THE FREEMAN By Mark Skousen “[Austrian economists] feel they’ve been frozen out of mainstream economics and seldom get even a footnote in standard textbooks.” -Todd G. Buchholz 1 Austrian economist makes good! I just got published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the most widely read economics journal in the country. [...]

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