Tag Archives: George Reisman

Mercantilism is Dumb

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Dr. J

I usually try to make Great Books Project posts on Mondays, but the hurricane delayed last week’s post until Wednesday, and I am in catch-up mode. In the meantime, it was easy for me to knock out this econ post. … Continue reading →

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More Tributes to Mises

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Dr. J

The introductory unit of George Reisman’s study program includes about 60 pages of reading from the appendices to the 4th edition of Ludwig von Mises’s Planning for Freedom. I covered the first part of the section, Murray Rothbard’s essay “The Essential … Continue reading →

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The Essential Von Mises

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Dr. J

The introductory unit of George Reisman’s study program includes about 60 pages of reading from the appendices to the 4th edition of Ludwig von Mises’s Planning for Freedom. Roughly the first 40 pages of this material is Murray Rothbard’s 1973 essay … Continue reading →

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Truth Persists and Works, Even if Nobody Is Left to Utter It

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Dr. J

Human thinking and reasoning, human science and technology are the product of a social process insofar as the individual thinker faces both the achievements and the errors of his predecessors and enters into a virtual discussion with them either in … Continue reading →

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“Procapitalist” and “Pseudocapitalist” Economic Thought

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dr. J

George Reisman, Capitalism, Introduction: In my Reading Economics Project, I’ve completed the series of posts on Shawn Ritenour’s Principles of Economics and made fair progress on the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Home Study Course. However, this is my very first … Continue reading →

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An “Open Letter to Warren Buffett”

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dr. J

Over on my Reading Economics page, I’ve outlined a plan to read through, among other things, George Reisman’s program of readings. In that light (although I haven’t actually posted on anything from that series yet), I thought it was worth … Continue reading →

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Reading Economics: Another Gigantic Project

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Dr. J

For more than a decade now, I’ve had more than a passing interest in the field of economics and have done quite a bit of disorganized reading in the field among the classical and Austrian economists. With the Great Books … Continue reading →

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