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...
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
Latest work
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
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...
