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George Gerald Reisman (; born January 13, 1937)"George Gerald Reisman" (2002), ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, Retrieved on January 18, 2007. is an American
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. He is Professor
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of Economics at
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and the author of ''The Government Against the Economy'' (1979), which was praised by both
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and
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, and ''Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics'' (1996). He is known as an advocate of
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.


Biography

Reisman was born in
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and graduated from Columbia College in 1957. He earned his
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from
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under the direction of
Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberalism. He is ...
, 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
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. Its lecturers included
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,
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,
Petr Beckmann Petr Beckmann (November 13, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power. Later in his life he disputed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and ...
,
Hans Sennholz Hans F. Sennholz (; ; 3 February 1922 – 23 June 2007) was a German-born American Austrian School economist and prolific author who studied under Ludwig von Mises. A Luftwaffe pilot during World War II, he was shot down over North Africa on 31 Au ...
,
Bernard Siegan Bernard H. Siegan (July 28, 1924 – March 27, 2006) was a longtime law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, libertarian legal theorist and a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cir ...
, Anne Wortham,
Robert Hessen Robert Hessen (born 1936) is an American economic and business historian. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is an Objectivist and has ...
,
Allan Gotthelf Allan Stanley Gotthelf (December 30, 1942 – August 30, 2013) was an American philosopher. He was a scholar of the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand. Academic career Allan Stanley Gotthelf was born in Brooklyn, New York (state), New Y ...
,
David Kelley David Christopher Kelley (born June 23, 1949) is an American philosopher. He is a professed Objectivist, though his position that Objectivism can be revised and influenced by other schools of thought has prompted disagreements with other Objec ...
,
John Ridpath John B. Ridpath (; 19 May 1936 – 23 March 2021) was a Canadian intellectual historian. He was an Objectivist and an associate professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto. He also taught courses at Duke Unive ...
, Harry Binswanger,
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, Walter E. Williams, Mary Ann Sures,
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and Peter Schwartz. Attendees of these conferences include later Objectivist writers Tara Smith and
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. Reisman was a student of
Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...
, whose influence on his thought and work he described as being as great as that of his mentor, Mises.


References


External links

*
Reisman's website


* * * ttps://mises.org/daily/1937 Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Warum Nationalsozialismus Sozialismus war und warum Sozialismus totalitär ist
;Works
''Government Against the Economy''
(1979)
''Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics''
(1996) ;Archives
Reisman archive at Mises.org



Reisman archive at Free Market News Network
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