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George Reisman is Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, and author of the massive 1,050-page volume Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (BooksEnthsiast.com). Reisman earned his Ph.D from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises, and is an outspoken advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.

In Capitalism, Dr. Reisman seeks to achieve a synthesis of the Classical and Austrian Schools of Economics, uniting the doctrines of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Jean-Baptiste Say with those of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich HayekFriedrich August von Hayek ( May 8, 1899 March 23, 1992) was an economist and social scientist of the Austrian School, noted for his defense of free-market capitalism against a perceived rising tide of socialist thought in the mid-20th century. He also ma.

Dr. Reisman was a close associate of Ayn Randpostage stamp honoring Rand. Ayn Rand ( February 2, 1905 March 6, 1982; first name rhymes with "mine"), born Alissa "Alice" Zinovievna Rosenbaum was a controversial American novelist and philosopher, most famous for her philosophy of Objectivism, and her, whose influence on his thought and work is at least as great as that of his mentor Mises. He identifies himself as an ObjectivistObjectivism is opposed to subjectivism and may mean: Metaphysical objectivism The philosophy of Ayn Rand, Objectivist philosophy The poetry of the Objectivist poets Moral objectivism, Objective morality., though he is no longer affiliated with the Ayn Rand InstituteThe Ayn Rand Institute was established in 1985 by Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand's designated legal and intellectual heir, as the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism. due to a falling out with some of its senior members.

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