Economics

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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Who’s to Blame for ObamaCare? Two Conservatives!

December 30, 2009

I wrote the following article for Human Events, but apparently it was too controversial and was removed after about 100 e-letters of commentary, both favorable and critical. Read here’s the original op-ed, uncensured.) by Mark Skousen This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obama Care. It’s easy to blame the [...]

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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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Free Market Health Care Is The Answer

August 17, 2009

“Capitalism is turning luxuries into necessities.” — Andrew Carnegie Watching the shouting matches occurring at the town hall meetings across America, do you ever wonder why nobody holds town hall meetings or writes complaining letters to Congress about food and housing? After all, food and housing are even more important than medical help.  Most Americans [...]

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Brother, Can You Spare a Decade?

May 1, 2009

Perspective – Liberty Magazine – May 2009 Brother, Can You Spare a Decade? by Mark Skousen Few things other than a New Deal can be more painful than an economic depression. But few eras were more vital and enjoyable than the private side of the last one. One of the rare books in my financial [...]

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Was the Great Depression Good for Us?

April 14, 2009

From Human Events “Everything was all right in those years, but only if you had a job.” ~ Grandmother of Amity Shlaes in The Forgotten Man Can the worst of times also be the best of times? When we think of the Great Depression of the 1930s, we are quick to recall the soup lines, [...]

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Will we survive Obamanomics?

March 5, 2009

From the Gilroy Dispatch Officially, President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget is titled “A New Era of Responsibility.” That’s false on two counts. It’s an era – not of responsibility, but of big-government taxation, spending, and regulation. And it’s not new. History is full of attempts to inflate the state to grow the economy. Virtually all [...]

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Proof Is in the Dow

March 2, 2009

From Human Events “The Obama budget is nothing less than an attempt to end the ideas of Ronald Reagan.” — New York Times Adam Smith, the father of free-market economics, once stated, “There is much ruin in a nation.”  President Obama is out to prove it in his Newspeak program he calls “A New Era [...]

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Obamanomics Is Making Matters Worse

February 24, 2009

From Human Events Unfortunately, the [Keynesian] balance week is unbalanced. ~ Milton Friedman We have outlived the short-run and are suffering from the long-run consequences of [Keynesian] policies. ~ Ludwig von Mises Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced another solution to the financial crisis — his new “Financial Stability Plan.” Since the announcement, Citigroup [...]

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From Poverty to Riches: Is There a Magic Elixir?

July 1, 2002

From The President’s Desk Published in Ideas on Liberty July 2002 by Mark Skousen “The problem of making poor countries rich was much more difficult than we thought.” —William Easterly, World Bank1 “If there is one formula for our success, it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work, or how to [...]

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