George Reisman
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George Gerald Reisman (Template:IPAc-en; born January 13, 1937)<ref name="cao">"George Gerald Reisman" (2002), Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, Retrieved on January 18, 2007.</ref> is an American economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and the author of The Government Against the Economy (1979),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt, and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.
Biography
Reisman was born in New York City<ref name="cao" /> and graduated from Columbia College in 1957.<ref name=":0" /> As a sophomore in 1954, he was a supporter of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and spoke at a testimonial dinner to McCarthy's chief aide, Roy Cohn, following the latter's resignation. At the dinner, according to Time magazine, Reisman, representing the Students for America, called Cohn "the American Dreyfus," adding: "Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans."<ref>"One Enchanted Evening", Time, Aug. 9, 1954.</ref>
He earned his PhD from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises, whose methodological work The Epistemological Problems of Economics Reisman translated from the German original to English.
In the 1980s, with his wife, psychologist Edith Packer, he organized the Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics, and Psychology, which held several conferences and seminars, the first being held at University of California, San Diego. Its lecturers included Leonard Peikoff, Edward Teller, Petr Beckmann, Hans Sennholz, Bernard Siegan, Anne Wortham, Robert Hessen, Allan Gotthelf, David Kelley, John Ridpath, Harry Binswanger, Edwin Locke, Walter E. Williams, Mary Ann Sures, Andrew Bernstein and Peter Schwartz. Attendees of these conferences include later Objectivist writers Tara Smith and Lindsay Perigo.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Reisman was a student of Ayn Rand, whose influence on his thought and work he described as being as great as that of his mentor, Mises.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
References
External links
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- Reisman's website
- George Reisman's Program of Self-Education in the Economic Theory and Political Philosophy of Capitalism; and Pepperdine Lectures on "Micro" and "Macro"
- Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture
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- Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
- Warum Nationalsozialismus Sozialismus war und warum Sozialismus totalitär ist
- Works
- Government Against the Economy Template:Webarchive (1979)
- Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)
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