George Reisman

Tags: Economist.

George Gerald Reisman (/ˈriːsmən/; born January 13 1937) is an American economist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University. He is the author of The Government Against the Economy (1979) which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996). He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.Reisman was born in New York City and earned his Ph.D.

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birth date

1937-01-13

birth place

New York City, New York

influenced by

Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Carl Menger, David Ricardo, Frédéric Bastiat, John Stuart Mill, Murray Rothbard, James Mill, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises

nationality

United States