How the Great Economic Thinkers Built Today's Rigorous Social Science (2002)

Mark Andrew Skousen (born 1947) is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765645440/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0765645440&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=49bc40618fc0e01a210e04238dc66b8b Skousen was born in 1947 in San Diego, California, and grew up in Portland, Oregon. He earned his B.A. and Master's degree in economics from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University in 1977. Conservative political commentator and survivalist Joel Skousen and linguist Royal Skousen are his older brothers, and W. Cleon Skousen, the late conservative author, was his uncle. Skousen and his wife, Jo Ann, and their five children have lived in Washington, D.C.; Nassau, Bahamas; London, England; Orlando, Florida; and New York. Skousen's books include: The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy (Simon & Schuster, 1983); High Finance on a Low Budget (Bantam, 1981), co-authored with his wife Jo Ann; Economics on Trial (Dow Jones Irwin, 1991); Scrooge Investing (McGraw Hill, 1995); The Making of Modern Economics (M.E. Sharpe, 2001, 2009) named the 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and #2 in the "Top Ten Must Read Books in Economics" [5] by the Ayn Rand Institute; Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? (Capital Press, 2005); The Big Three in Economics (M.E. Sharpe, 2007); EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World (Wiley & Sons, 2008); and the free market textbook Economic Logic (Capital Press, 2000; new fourth edition, 2014). His latest books are "Maxims of Wall Street: A Compilation of Financial Adages, Ancient Proverbs, and Worldly Wisdom" (2011),[6] a collection of famous sayings of Wall Street, and "A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street" (Laissez Faire Books, 2013),[7] which applies the basic concepts of the Austrian school of Mises, Hayek, and Schumpeter to the investing and high finance. Skousen served as president of the free market nonprofit Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2001 to 2002. Skousen's brief tenure as president of FEE ended on a controversial note when he resigned in late 2002 at the request of the organization's Board of Trustees. This move followed Skousen's decision to invite, as keynote speaker for FEE's annual Liberty Banquet, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani proved to be an extremely unpopular choice among many of the organization's board members as well as several prominent libertarians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Skousen Image By Adam Smith Business School (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons