George Reisman

Articles

A Tribute to Mises on the Anniversary of his Birth

09/27/2024 Mises Wire George Reisman

It's Ludwig von Mises's 143rd birthday! On the 100th anniversary of his birth (1981), George Reisman penned this tribute honoring Mises's brilliance, courage, and impact.

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

Free Markets Would Be OPEC’s Undoing

09/18/2001 George Reisman

Had the United States pursued a policy of economic freedom with respect to energy production over the last thirty years, the conditions for OPEC’s success as a cartel would never have been present in the first place.

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.

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