George Reisman

Articles

A Tribute to Mises on the Anniversary of his Birth

09/27/2024 Mises Wire George Reisman

September 29, 2024, is the one-hundred-and-forty-third anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, economist and social philosopher, who passed away in 1973. Von Mises was my teacher and mentor and...

Some Questions about Income Tax Audits

11/09/2021 Power & Market George Reisman

An income tax audit is essentially a search. Why, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, doesn’t it require a search warrant signed by a judge? Since income-tax audits sometimes...

Class Harmony, Not Class War

03/08/2021 Power & Market George Reisman

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The discontent and unrest that followed the 2020 presidential election was, at least in major part, one of the innumerable destructive...

Publications

Capitalism

01/11/2016 George Reisman

George Reisman was a student of Mises’s, a translator of his work, and, as he demonstrates in this outstanding treatise, a leading theorist in the Misesian tradition. This exposition deals with the method and theory of economics, and particularly

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

06/15/1996 George Reisman

[ George Reisman’s Program of Self-Education in the Economic Theory and Political Philosophy of Capitalism is available here with permission of the author.] George Reisman was a student of Mises’s, a translator of his work, and, as he demonstrates in

Media

Class Harmony, Not Class War

03/13/2021 George Reisman

The discontent and unrest that followed the 2020 presidential election was, at least in major part, one of the innumerable destructive consequences of an almost 250-year-old error in economic theory made by Adam Smith: namely, the belief that profits are a deduction from wages.

George Reisman on Studying With Mises, Meeting Ayn Rand, and His Contributions to Economic Theory

08/19/2020 Robert P. Murphy George Reisman

George Reisman talks with Bob Murphy and shares anecdotes about his experiences with Mises and Rand.

Turning Piketty Right Side Up

06/24/2014 George Reisman

In his new book, Capital In the Twenty-First Century, Piketty fails to understand how savings and investment work, writes George Reisman This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.

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