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TEXTBOOKS TAKE FREE-MARKET TACK But Many Welfare-State Myths Still Are Taught

October 22, 1998

NATIONAL ISSUE — Investor’s Business Daily TEXTBOOKS TAKE FREE-MARKET TACK But Many Welfare-State Myths Still Are Taught Date: 10/22/98 Author: Michael Chapman Many students today learn a lot about free-market economics. Problem is, John Maynard Keynes, the godfather of the welfare state, is doing the teaching. Still, in recent years, textbooks have improved. Free-market economists [...]

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Darwin on Wall Street

August 31, 1998

Darwin on Wall Street Mark Skousen Forecasts & Strategies August 1998 “No other theory or concept ever imagined by man can equal in boldness and audacity this claim — that everything revolves around human existence — that all the starry heavens, that every species of life, that every characteristic of reality exists for mankind and [...]

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Keynesianism Defeated

October 9, 1997

WALL STREET JOURNAL — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1997 By Mark Skousen In 1992, Harvard Prof. Greg Mankiw was paid an unprecedented advance of $1.1 million to produce the “next Salmuelson”–a successor to Paul Samuelson’s “Economics,” the most successful economics textbook ever written, with more than four million copies sold in 15 editions and 41 foreign [...]

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