George Gerald Reisman | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Economics |
School or tradition | Objectivism Austrian School |
Doctoral advisor | Ludwig von Mises |
Influences | |
Contributions | Primacy of profits, net consumption theory of profit, integration of Austrian and Classical Economics. |
Objectivist movement |
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George Gerald Reisman (/ˈriːsmən/; 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.