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Free-Market Economists on the Defensive at AEA Meeting in Chicago

January 11, 2012

“The big cannon should be fiscal policy [more deficit spending].” — Peter Diamond, Nobel Prize Economist and New Fed Member Every year I attend (and sometimes speak) at the American Economic Association (AEA) meetings, where the top economists meet and present papers on current issues. In the past, I’ve confronted Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, government [...]

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Major Interview with Mark Skousen on His Life and Works in Economics, Finance and the Freedom Movement

July 15, 2011

BETWEEN CHICAGO AND VIENNA: INTERVIEW WITH MARK SKOUSEN Mark Skousen is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author of more than 25 non-fiction books. AR: Professor Skousen… Thank you for this opportunity to let us know a little more about yourself. Please, explain the context in which you grew up in [...]

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Maxims of Wall Street — New Book Now Available!

June 27, 2011

AFTER 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING, ANNOUNCING AN HISTORIC FIRST… THE MAXIMS OF WALL STREET A Compilation of Financial Adages, Ancient Proverbs, and Worldly Wisdom By Mark Skousen “Bears Make Headlines, Bulls Make Money” Attention all investors, subscribers, stockbrokers and money managers! For nearly 30 years, I have been collecting all the old wise adages, [...]

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Three Uses for “The Making of Modern Economics”

February 20, 2011

Three uses for my award-winning book, The Making of Modern Economics: Since winning the Choice Book Award for Outstanding Academic Title, my book has been translated into Spanish, given away to all the board members of a major Russian corporation, and read as a main selection of the Boulder Book Club and the Show-Me Institute [...]

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The Making of Modern Economics Wins 2009 Choice Award

January 22, 2010

My book The Making of Modern Economics has just won the Choice Book Award for Outstanding Academic Title for 2009. Choice is the reviewing journal for academic libraries. I was delighted by this surprise announcement, especially for a 2nd edition! Some of the unique characteristics of The Making of Modern Economics: 1. A major critique of Karl Marx’s [...]

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Book Review: The Making of Modern Economics

August 24, 2009

From an online book review on BillyBush.Net: I recently finished “The Making of Modern Economics” by Mark Skousen.  I found this book quite intriguing.  It provides a powerful foundation and historical background to economic thought by offering the histories of the individuals that most contributed to modern schools of economics and public policy. Read more: [...]

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Mark Skousen In the News and On the Web

March 26, 2009

Has Keynes Trumped Adam Smith? By Mark Skousen February 27, 2009 A nice reprint of one of my articles on a web blog. A great way to spread the word. “Market Monitor” — Mark Skousen, Editor, Forecasts & Strategies with Paul Kangas, Nightly Business Report, PBS, Friday, March 06, 2009 Link to transcript of the [...]

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It All Started with Adam

May 1, 2001

Ideas On Liberty Economics on Trial May 2001 by Mark Skousen Adam Smith, that is. Having just completed writing a history of economics,1 I have concluded that, despite the protestations of Murray Rothbard and other detractors, the eighteenth-century moral philosopher and celebrated author of The Wealth of Nations deserves to be named the founding father [...]

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