George Reisman
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| Name: | George Reisman |
| Birth: | 1937 (New York, USA) |
| School/tradition: | Austrian economics, Classical economics, Objectivism |
| Main interests: | Economics, Political economy, Minarchism |
| Notable ideas: | Primacy of profits, net consumption theory of profit |
| Influences: | Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Frédéric Bastiat, Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Henry Hazlitt, Murray N. Rothbard |
George Gerald Reisman (born January 13, 1937)[1] is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of the massive 1,050-page volume Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996).[2] He is also the author of an earlier book, The Government Against the Economy (1979), contents of which are mostly subsumed in Capitalism. Reisman was born in New York City[1] and earned his Ph.D. from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises. He is an outspoken advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.
In Capitalism, Reisman seeks to achieve a synthesis of the British Classical and Austrian Schools of Economics, uniting the doctrines of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill with those of Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, and Ludwig von Mises.
Reisman was a close associate of Ayn Rand, whose influence on his thought and work is at least as great as that of his mentor Mises. He identifies himself as an Objectivist, though he is no longer affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute due to a falling out with some of its senior members, particularly Harry Binswanger and Peter Schwartz.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "George Gerald Reisman" (2002). Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. Retrieved on January 18, 2007.
- ^ Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books. ISBN 0-915463-73-3.
- ^ Per-Olof Samuelsson (2000). Why I Do Not Support the 'Official' Objectivist 'Movement'. Retrieved on 2006-07-23.
[edit] External links
- Dr. Reisman's website
- Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics – Free download to preview
- George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture
- Reisman's Curriculum Vitae
Major Essays by Reisman
- Education and the Racist Road to Barbarism – A demonstration that by the standard of the value of knowledge, modern Western civilization must be judged as the highest form of civilization thus far.
- The Toxicity of Environmentalism – A critique of leading aspects of environmentalism.
- Platonic Competition – A critique of the doctrine of pure and perfect competition.
- Classical Economics Versus the Exploitation Theory – A demonstration that major ideas of David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill can serve to overthrow the theoretical framework of the Marxian exploitation theory.
- Production Versus Consumption – The fundamental problem of economic life is the production of wealth, not the need for wealth. Implications of this proposition for war, government spending, population growth, advertising, machinery, group conflict, and more.
- The Anatomy of Deflation – An explanation of what deflation is, including why falling prices caused by increased production are not deflation, what causes deflation, and the monetary system needed to avoid it.
- The Value of Final Products Counts Only Itself – Despite the prevailing belief to the contrary, the value of final products does not count the value of so-called intermediate products.
- Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture – A demonstration of the gains from globalization.
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