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  • The Making of Modern Economics

  • The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, Second Edition
  • Written by: Mark Skousen
  • Narrated by: William Hughes
  • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
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Written by: Mark Skousen
Narrated by: William Hughes
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Here is a bold, new account of the lives and ideas of the great economists - Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, and many others - all written by a top free-market economist and presented in an entertaining and persuasive style. Professor Mark Skousen tells a powerful story of economics with dozens of anecdotes of the great economic thinkers.
©2009 Mark Skousen (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"Both fascinating and infuriating...enaging, readable, colorful...credulous, disingenuous, and tendentious." ( Foreign Affairs)

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