Mises Daily
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David Gordon
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Review of T he Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers by Mark Skousen. M. E. Sharpe, 2001. xv + 487 pgs. Mark Skousen is not easy to satisfy. “In 1980,” he informs us, “I asked Murray Rothbard to write an alternative to Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers “ (p.9). Skousen wanted a popular history of