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George Reisman is Professor of Economics at
Pepperdine University, and author of the massive
1,050-page volume Capitalism_(book)|Capitalism: A
Treatise on Economics (ISBN 0915463733). He is
also the author of earlier book The Government
Against the Economy (1979), contents of which are
mostly subsumed in Capitalism. Reisman earned his
Ph.D from New York University under the direction
of Ludwig von Mises, and is an outspoken advocate
of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.

In Capitalism, Dr. Reisman seeks to achieve a
synthesis of the Classical economics|Classical and
Austrian School|Austrian Schools of Economics,
uniting the doctrines of Adam Smith, David
Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Jean-Baptiste Say
with those of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises and
Friedrich Hayek.

Dr. Reisman was a close associate of Ayn Rand,
whose influence on his thought and work is at
least as great as that of his mentor Mises. He
identifies himself as an Objectivist
philosophy|Objectivist, though he is no longer
affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute due to a
falling out with some of its senior members.

==External links==

* http://www.capitalism.net Dr. Reisman's Web Site
*
http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM%20
Internet.pdf Dr. Reisman's Magnum Opus, Capitalism
in PDF - Free Download to preview
*
http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/programs/faculty/vit
ae.html?Name=Reisman,+G. Reisman's Curriculum
Vitae
* http://www.mises.org/ Ludwig von Mises Institute