Great Economic Thinkers

ISBN 10: 0786158921 ISBN 13: 9780786158928

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2007

Synopsis

[Read by Louis Rukeyser]
[Edited by Israel Kirzner and Mike Hassell]

The Great Economic Thinkers series is a collection of audio presentations that explain, in understandable language, the major ideas of history's most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinker's attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in today's debate on economic progress and prosperity.

Contributing authors: Robert Hébert, Laurence S. Moss, E. G. West, Arthur Diamond, William H. Peterson, Israel Kirzner, David Ramsay Steele, Fred Glahe, Frank Vorhies, Nicholas Balabkins, Arjo Klamer, Alan Reynolds, and Paul Davidson

Louis Rukeyser, narrator of the Great Economic Thinkers series, is recognized as America's most popular economic commentator. He is known and admired for his ability to discuss economics in a lively and insightful way. --Included in this set are:

Alfred Marshall and Neoclassicism
The Austrian Case for the Free Market Process
The Classical Economists
Early Austrian Economics
Frank Knight and the Chicago School
The German Historical School of Economics
Joseph Schumpeter and Dynamic Economic Change
Karl Marx: Das Kapital
The Keynesian Revolution
Monetarism and Supply Side Economics
Struggle over the Keynesian Heritage
The Vision of Léon Walras
Thorstein Veblen and Institutionalism

Knowledge Products presentations are based on the great ideas and events of history. Authored by academics and historians, these books are presented in a format that is both educational and entertaining.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Israel Kirzner is a leading economist in the Austrian school. Kirzner's major work is in the economics of knowledge and entrepreneurship and the ethics of markets. He is a leading authority on Ludwig von Mises' thinking and methodology in economics and received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research in 2006.

Mike Hassell

Louis Rukeyser (1933-2006), narrator of the 'Great Economic Thinkers' and the 'Secrets of the Great Investors' series, was recognized as America's most popular economic commentator. He was known and admired for his ability to discuss economics in a lively and insightful way.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0786158921
• ISBN 13: 9780786158928
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English