Keynesianism Defeated
WALL STREET JOURNAL — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1997 By Mark Skousen In 1992, Harvard Prof. Greg Mankiw was paid an unprecedented advance of $1.1 million to produce the “next Salmuelson”–a successor to Paul...
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Darwin on Wall Street Mark Skousen Forecasts & Strategies August 1998 “No other theory or concept ever imagined by man can equal in boldness and audacity this claim — that everything revolves...
View ArticleTEXTBOOKS TAKE FREE-MARKET TACK But Many Welfare-State Myths Still Are Taught
NATIONAL ISSUE — Investor’s Business Daily TEXTBOOKS TAKE FREE-MARKET TACK But Many Welfare-State Myths Still Are Taught Date: 10/22/98 Author: Michael Chapman Many students today learn a lot about...
View ArticleThe Battle for Diamond Head: A Case of Market Failure?
Economics on Trial THE FREEMAN APRIL 1999 The Battle for Diamond Head: A Case of Market Failure? by Mark Skousen “Hawaii’s great and beloved landmark … is too precious an asset to be sacrificed.”...
View ArticleGUESS WHO?
Forecasts & Strategies Personal Snapshots by Mark Skousen Which famous economist endorses the deficit-spending actions the federal government took during the Great Depression, prefers John Maynard...
View ArticleA Private-Sector Solution to Poverty
Economics on Trial NOVEMBER 1999 by Mark Skousen “The able bodied poor don’t want or need charity. . . . All they need is financial capital.” -MUHAMMAD YUNUS For years free-market economists have...
View ArticleThe For-Profit Antipoverty Agency
Ideas Matter F0RBES November 15, 1999 The For-Profit Antipoverty Agency by Mark Skousen This summer’s spectacle of World Bank officials lobbying Congress for more foreign aid money was an...
View ArticleGreed is Good — NOT!
Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies February 2000 by Mark Skousen “Unbridled avarice is not in the least the equivalent of capitalism, still less its ‘spirit.’” — Max Weber Recently I heard...
View ArticleYes, The Rich Are Different — They’re Better
Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies March 2000 by Mark Skousen “The rich are different from you and me.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald “Yes, they have more money.” — Ernest Hemingway In 1996 when I...
View ArticleThe Gap Between Rich and Poor Is…Narrowing!
Personal Snapshots FORECASTS & STRATEGIES April 2000 by Mark Skousen “The poor remain poor and the command of income by those in the top income brackets is increasing egregiously.” — John Kenneth...
View ArticleA Tax by Any Other Name
Personal Snapshots FORECASTS & STRATEGIES July 2000 A Tax by Any Other Name by Mark Skousen “Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?” –...
View ArticleDr Mark Skousen’s Five Questions for President Obama
Dr. Mark Skousen’s Five Questions for President Obama and How Free-Market Thinking Can Build a Better Future The Daily Bell is pleased to publish an exclusive interview with the distinguished...
View ArticleFree-Market Economists on the Defensive at AEA Meeting in Chicago
“The big cannon should be fiscal policy [more deficit spending].” — Peter Diamond, Nobel Prize Economist and New Fed Member Every year I attend (and sometimes speak) at the American Economic...
View ArticleHillsdale College Lecture: Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up?
Was Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, a libertarian, conservative, or radical democrat? Traditionally, free-market economists such as Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek,...
View ArticleMy First Book Review for Barrons –“Conscious Capitalism”
Here is my first book review on Barrons — on John Mackey’s new book, “Conscious Capitalism,” which I regard as revolutionary and encourage everyone to get a copy at either a Whole Foods store (always...
View ArticleSecond Review of John Mackey’s Revolutionary “Conscious Capitalism”
Whole Foods’ Better Business Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, John Mackey and Raj Sisodia, Harvard Business Review Press, 368 pages By Mark Skousen • April 10, 2013 Ever...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Commercial Society: The Business Leader as Hero
By Mark Skousen Editor, Forecasts & Strategies Keynote Address at Annual International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), April 18, 2013, Orlando, Florida “It is business that...
View ArticleChapman Students Are Surprised by the Answer to My Environmental Question
In January, my wife and I had the opportunity to teach at Chapman University, where I am a Presidential Fellow for 2014. She taught a class in poetry, and I taught “Modern Political Economy: Who is...
View ArticleEconomist Makes Lead Story in the Wall Street Journal….Barron’s….and Forbes
I made the lead story in the Wednesday, April 23, 2014, edition of the Wall Street Journal. The title: “At Last, a Better Economic Measure.” You can read it here: http://on.wsj.com/PsdoLM The...
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