Mark skousen wiki

Mark Skousen is an economist and writer. He was a Presidential Fellow at The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University from 2014 to 2017. In 2019, Skousen was named the “My Favorite Professor Award,” the highest honor given at the Faculty Appreciation Awards, which the Office of Residence Life and First Year Experience hosts annually.

In 2018, Skousen was presented with the inaugural Triple Crown in Economics for his work in economic theory, history, and education.

He is the founder and owner of the libertarian-oriented FreedomFest conference. He introduced a breakthrough economic statistic called Gross Output, the first new economic aggregate recognized more than fifty years ago.

He has written the investment newsletter Forecasts & Strategies for more than 30 years. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001.

He was president of the free market nonprofit Foundation for Economic Education from 2001 to 2002.

Mark Skousen was born on October 19, 1947, in San Diego, California, and grew up in Portland, Oregon. He holds a PhD in economics from George Washington University and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Brigham Young University.

He started his career as an economic analyst for the CIA in 1972. He was a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology and other companies. He previously taught at Columbia Business School, Mercy College, Barnard College, and Rollins College. He has been a speaker at investment conferences and has lectured for think tanks. He was a weekly contributor on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company from 2008 to 2010 and appeared on C-SPAN Book TV and Fox News. He has written 25 books.

He and his wife Jo Ann are the parents of five children.

Mark Skousen, Ph.D. Biographical Information

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Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor and author of more than 25 books on economics, personal finance, and investing, such as Economic Logic, A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street, The Making of Modern Economics, and The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin. He writes an award-winning financial newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, produces the annual “FreedomFest” conference in Las Vegas, is the Chair of Management of Grantham University, and has been a regular contributor on “Kudlow & Company,” on CNBC-TV and “Nightly Business Report” on PBS. He was recently named one of the top 20 most influential living economists. Please visit: www.markskousen.com, www.freedomfest.com and www.mskousen.com.

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Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor and author of more than 25 books. Dr. Skousen has taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College, Columbia University, Mercy College (all in New York), and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In April 2005, Grantham University honored Dr. Skousen by renaming its business school “The Mark Skousen School of Business.” In 2001-02, he was president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York.  He was recently named one of the top 20 most influential living economists (www.superscholar.org).

From 1972-75, Dr. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA. Since then, he has been a consultant to IBM, Hutchinson Technology, and other Fortune 500 companies. He has been a columnist for Forbes magazine (1997-01), and has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Reason, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has appeared on ABC News, CNBC Power Lunch, CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN Book TV, as well extensively on radio and online.

Since 1980,

American economist and writer (born 1947)

For other persons with the surname Skousen, see Skousen (disambiguation).

Mark Andrew Skousen (; born October 19, 1947) is an American economist and writer. He currently teaches at Chapman University, where he has been the Doti-Spogli chair in free enterprise at the Argyros School of Business and Economics since 2022.

Early life, education and family

Skousen was born on October 19, 1947, in San Diego, California, and grew up in Portland, Oregon. Conservative political commentator and survival strategist Joel Skousen and linguist Royal Skousen are his older brothers. He is the nephew of W. Cleon Skousen, the political conservative and activist. Mark Skousen earned his B.A. and Master's degree in economics from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University in 1977.

Skousen is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has five children with his wife Jo Ann.

Career

Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975. He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal as well as to various libertarianperiodicals. He has been a speaker at investment conferences and has lectured for think tanks. From 2008 to 2010 he was a weekly contributor on CNBC's Kudlow & Company and has also appeared on C-SPANBook TV and Fox News. Skousen has been the editor of the Forecasts & Strategies financial newsletter since 1980. He also is the editor of four trading services (Five Star Trader,Low-Priced Stock Trader, Fast Money Alert, and TNT Trader.) and publishes the Investor CAFÉ weekly electronic newsletter.

Academia

Skousen has lectured on economics and finance at Columbi

Mark Andrew Skousen (born 1947) is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author.

Quotes

• Samuelson's textbook has delivered a great deal of economic wisdom. For many economists, the positive side of the balance sheet has outweighed the negative. Indeed, his defenders might ask: Might the United States and the West have suffered another Great Depression if Samuelson had not emphasized the need for "automatic stabilizers"? Did not Samuelson's heralding of the "mixed" economy curb the appetite of third world countries for national socialism?
  We will never know, of course, but it is humbling to speculate on whether alterations in principles textbooks might have led to a different U.S. economy.
  • Mark Skousen, "The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson's Economics", The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1997)

• The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.
  • Mark Skousen; in: The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 60, Nr. 3-10 (2010). p. 7

Quotes about Mark Skousen

• The question of the value of Hayek’s work in technical economic theory from the middle 1920s through early 1940s is one over which there is considerable dispute in the academic economic community. Some, such as contemporary Austrian economists Roger Garrison, Mark Skousen, and Gene Callahan, consider this work to be of vital, continuing relevance. Others, such as Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Ronald Coase, while they have the highest opinion of Hayek, do not consider his work in technical economic theory to be of much worth.
  • Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 5. Money and Cap