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Best Textbooks for a Free-Market University
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws . . . if I can write its economics textbooks.” -Paul A. Samuelson When I majored in economics in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were precious few textbooks with a strong free-market bent. My introductory course required Paul A. Samuelson’s Economics, a strictly Keynesian work [...]
1Dec1998 | Mark Skousen | 2 comments | ContinuedBest Textbooks for a Free-Market University
Mark Skousen is an economist at Rollins College, Department of Economics, Winter Park, Florida 32789, a Forbes columnist, and editor of Forecasts & Strategies. He is also the author of Economics on Trial (Irwin, 1993), a review of the top ten textbooks in economics. He is currently working on his own textbook, Economic Logic. “I [...]
1Dec1997 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mysteries of the Great Depression Finally Solved
The Great Depression of the 1930s may be a dim memory now, but its impact is still being felt in policy and theory. The prolonged depression created an environment critical of laissez-faire policies and favorable toward ubiquitous state interventionism throughout the Western world.
1Jul1997 | Mark Skousen | 27 comments | Continued-
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