George Reisman

George Gerald Reisman
Born (1937-01-13) January 13, 1937 (age 87)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconomics
School or
tradition
Objectivism
Austrian School
Doctoral
advisor
Ludwig von Mises
Influences
ContributionsPrimacy of profits, net consumption theory of profit, integration of Austrian and Classical Economics.

George Gerald Reisman (/ˈrsmən/; born January 13, 1937)[1] is an American economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and the author of The Government Against the Economy (1979),[2] which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt, and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996).[3] He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.

  1. ^ "George Gerald Reisman" (2002), Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, Retrieved on January 18, 2007.
  2. ^ Reisman, George (1979). The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls. Ottawa, Ill.: Caroline House Publishers. ISBN 0-89803-004-8. OCLC 5908227.
  3. ^ Reisman, George. (1996). Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books. ISBN 0-915463-73-3. OCLC 36200484.