Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

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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

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The Truth about American Inequality

U.S. History

Blog09/17/2022Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.Ryan McMaken

"Our welfare spending is probably the highest in the world. It is only “laissez-faire” in the sense that we have ... a very large charitable sector as well."

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation

U.S. EconomyU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign PolicyInterventionismPolitical Theory

01/11/2016BooksMark ThorntonRobert 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 these events. This book does so, and marvelously.

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The "Confederate" Blockade of the South

U.S. History

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

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 failure of leadership or diplomacy

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Ludwig H. Mai: A Personal Memoir

BiographiesHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

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

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 von Böhm-Bawerk

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qjae14_2_5.pdf

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Wieser's Social Economics: A Link to Modern Austrian Theory? [Full Edition of Vol. 6, No. 3]

Legal SystemPrivate PropertyValue and Exchange

07/30/2014Austrian Economics NewsletterRobert B. Ekelund, Jr.

Volume 6, Number 3 (Fall 1986) Robert B, Ekelund, Jr discusses Friedrich von Wieser's book, Social Economics .

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