The Big Three in Economics

Name: The Big Three in Economics
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Mark Skousen
ISBN: 9781433236174

Author: Mark Skousen

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics

Synopsis

History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics, due to the turbulent lives and battle of ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

About Mark Skousen

Mark Skousen is an investment expert, economist, university professor, and author of more than twenty-five books. He earned his PhD in monetary economics at George Washington University in 1977. He has taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Grantham University, Barnard College, Mercy College, and Rollins College. He is a presidential fellow and Doti-Spogli Endowed Chair of Free Enterprise at Chapman University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amirography

Has anyone who have read this book been surprised to know that the author was a Trump voter?......more

Goodreads review by Evan

“The ﬁrst human was Adam. The ﬁrst economist . . . was Adam Smith” I feel fortunate to have prior knowledge of political spectrum (especially in the US) before reading this book. Clearly, Skousen is biased to the right, as he described Smith so eloquently, yet he depicted Marx and Keynes in a pejorat......more

Goodreads review by Jay

Fortunately, Skousen discusses dozens of other economists along with the Big Three. Funny to see all the 1-star reviews saying he wasn't "fair" to Marx. Yes, he was. Marxism is bad economics, in theory and in practice.......more

Goodreads review by Brent

This book actually delivers more than it promises: not only profiles of the life and economic thought of Smith, Marx, and Keynes, but also an adequate account of the development of economic thought in the interstices. It’s been a while since I read Hielbroner’s “Worldly Philosophers,” but if memory......more