Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

Robert Ekelund (1940–2023) was Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Auburn University. He is author of The Marketplace of Christianity (2006) and Economic Origins of Roman Christianity (2011), and co-author (with Mark Thornton) of Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. In addition to economic research, he maintained work on lifelong hobbies of classical piano, painting and gardening. BobEkelund.com

Articles

The Truth about American Inequality

09/17/2022 Mises Wire Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Ryan McMaken

Economist and Mises Institute Associated Scholar Robert Ekelund recently teamed up with former US Senator Phil Gramm and John Early to write The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases...

The “Confederate” Blockade of the South

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

Volume 4, No. 1 (Spring 2001) It is important to note that the economic theory of war does not necessarily displace the historical explanations that rest on such factors as internal dissension, a...

Ludwig H. Mai: A Personal Memoir

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

Volume 14, No. 2 (Summer 2011) Ludwig H. Mai was an amalgam of intellectual influences. Most certainly he was partly an Austrian “fellow traveler” — one who had deep respect for Carl Menger and Eugen...

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Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation

01/11/2016 Mark Thornton Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

What caused the war? Why did the Union defeat the Confederacy? What were the consequences of the War? The premise of the book is that historians have a comparative advantage in describing such events, but economists have the tools to help explain

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