Karl Marx

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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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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