Mark Skousen
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The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics-the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science.This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers begins with Adam Smith and continues through to the present day. It examines the contributions each one made to our understanding of the role of the economist, the science of economics, and economic...
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Is the bridge between the Austrian and Chicago schools coming together or moving apart?
In Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? economist and author Mark Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, which differ in monetary policy, business cycle, government policy, and methodology. Both have played a successful role in advancing classic free-market economics and countering the critics of capitalism during crucial times...
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In Economic Logic, Mark Skousen offers a step-by-step approach to economics showing how microeconomics and macroeconomics are logically linked together. The fully revised fifth edition introduces a major breakthrough in macroeconomics: a "top line" in national income accounting called Gross Output. Also included: a powerful four-stage universal model of the economy, a new "growth" diagram, a new diagram of the optimal size of government, and new alternatives...
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The power of economic thinking can be explained by seven core principles, which are accountability, investments, economy, incentive, freedom of choice, nondiscrimination, and one price. By understanding and incorporating these principles, better decisions will be made on individual, corporate, and government levels. To explain this thesis, the author offers analyses of key economists who have changed their views over time, an examination of major...
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Mark Skousen has built his impressive reputation as one of the industry's best-known investment advisors by consistently beating the market year after year. Now, he passes along his entire investment philosophy, based on his decades of experience, in a single, one-lesson book. Investing in One Lesson first unravels the intricacies of Wall Street, explaining in layman's terms why financial markets frequently behave in seemingly irrational ways. Then...
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History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics, due to the turbulent lives and battle of ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.