Mises Review
Author:
David Gordon
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The Making of a Mess Mises Review 7, No. 2 (Summer 2001 ) THE MAKING OF MODERN ECONOMICS: THE LIVES AND IDEAS OF THE GREAT THINKERS 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 Wordly Philosophers” (p. 9).