American economist and writer (born 1947)
Mark Andrew Skousen (/ˈ s k aʊ z ən economist and writer. He currently teaches atChapman University ,[ 1] Spogli chair in free enterprise at theArgyros School of Business and Economics since 2022.[ 2]
[ edit ] Skousen was born on October 19, 1947, inSan Diego ,California , and grew up inPortland ,Oregon . Conservative political commentator and survival strategistJoel Skousen and linguistRoyal Skousen are his older brothers. He is the nephew ofW. Cleon Skousen , the political conservative and activist. Mark Skousen earned hisB.A. andMaster's degree in economics fromBrigham Young University and hisPhD ineconomics fromGeorge Washington University in 1977.
Skousen is a member ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .[ 3]
Skousen was an economic analyst for theCIA from 1972 to 1975.[ 4] consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies.[ 5] Forbes The Wall Street Journal libertarian periodicals . He has been a speaker at investment conferences and[ 6] think tanks .[ 7] CNBC 'sKudlow & Company C-SPAN Book TV and Fox News. Skousen has been the editor of theForecasts & Strategies financial newsletter since 1980. He also is the editor of four trading services (Five Star Trader, Low-Priced Stock Trader ,Fast Money Alert, andTNT Trader .) and publishes theInvestor CAFÉ weekly electronic newsletter.
Mark Skousen,Oren Cass ,Kimberly Clausing ,Jason Furman ,Richard Burkhauser at AEA 2025 Skousen has lectured on economics and finance atColumbia Business School ,[ 8] [failed verification Barnard College ,Mercy College ,Rollins College ,[ 9] Chapman University .[ 10] Grantham University renamed its online School of Business "The Mark Skousen School of Business."[ 11] [ 12] Chapman University .[ 1] Spogli chair in free enterprise[ 2] Argyros School of Business and Economics in 2022.
Foundation for Economic Education [ edit ] Skousen served as president of the libertarian economic think tankThe Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2001 to 2002. Skousen's brief tenure as president ofFEE ended on a controversial note when he resigned in late 2002 at the request of the organization's board of trustees. During his tenure at FEE, Skousen launched a non-partisan,libertarian conference, then titled "FEEFest," which premiered in Las Vegas in 2002. After Skousen left the presidency at FEE, the conference continued as "FreedomFest," first under the purview ofYoung America's Foundation , and later, under Skousen's own direction and ownership.[ 4]
Skousen is a proponent ofGross Output (GO), an economic concept used to measure total economic activity in the production of new goods and services in an accounting period. Skousen highlighted the concept in his work,The Structure of Production in 1990,[ 13] https://grossoutput.com/ website.
Academic books
The Structure of Production (New York University Press, 1990)ISBN 0-8147-7895-X Economics on Trial (Irwin McGraw Hill, 1991; 2nd edition, 1993)ISBN 1-55623-372-8 Dissent on Keynes , editor (Praeger Publishing, 1992)ISBN 027593778X Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics , co-authored with Kenna C. Taylor (Edward Elgar , 1997)ISBN 1840640499 Economic Logic (Capital Press, 2000, 2008, 2011, 2014).ISBN 1621572226 The Making of Modern Economics (M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 2001, 2009)ISBN 0765622270 The Power of Economic Thinking (Foundation for Economic Education, 2002)ISBN 1572462019 Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics (Capital Press, 2005)ISBN 0895260298 The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin , compiled and edited by Mark Skousen (Regnery Books, 2006)ISBN 0895260336 The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes (M. E. Sharpe, 2007)ISBN 0765616947 EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World (Wiley & Sons, 2008)ISBN 0470138076 High Finance on a Low Budget (Bantam Books, 1981, Dearborn, 1993), co-authored with Jo Ann SkousenISBN 079312557X The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy (Simon & Schuster, 1983)ISBN 0932496113 The Investor's Bible: Mark Skousen's Principles of Investment (Phillips Publishing, 1992)Secrets of the Great Investors , editor, audio tape series, narrated by Louis Rukeyser (Knowledge Products, 1997, 2006)ISBN 078616526X The New Scrooge Investing (McGraw Hill, 2000)ISBN 9780071355001 Investing in One Lesson (Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2007)ISBN 1596985224 Maxims of Wall Street (Skousen Publishing, Inc 2011)ISBN 1596982985 A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street (Laissez Faire Books, 2013)ISBN 1621290921 The Greatest American: Benjamin Franklin, the World’s Most Versatile Genius (Republic Book Publishers, 2025)ISBN 978-1645721000 Academic journal articles
"Saving the Depression: A New Look at World War II,"Review of Austrian Economics , 1987, vol. 2, No. 1 "A Review of the New Palgrave,"Review of Austrian Economics , 1988, vol. 3, No. 1 "The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson's Economics,"Journal of Economic Perspectives JSTOR 2138240 "GO Beyond GDP: Introducing a New National Income Statistic," (presented at the "Macro Lunch", Columbia Business School, paper to be submitted to American Economic Review) "What Drives the Economy: Consumer Spending or Saving/Investment? Using GDP, Gross Output and Other National Income Statistics to Determine Economic Performance,"Backgrounder , 2004, Initiative for Policy Dialogue,[ 14] "Gross Domestic Expenditures (GDE): The Case for New National Aggregate Statistic", 2012, a working paper at University College of London[ 15] "GO Beyond GDP: Introducing Gross Output, The "Top Line" in National Income Accounting", SSNR, December 13, 2024,https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5002052 "There’s Much Ruin in a Nation: An Analysis of Modern Monetary Theory", Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer; International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 48(1), pages 11-21, March.https://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/atlecj/v48y2020i1d10.1007_s11293-020-09651-9.html "The Economics of Life Made Simple", Skeptic Magazine, Volume 28 Number 1, May 9, 2023https://archive.skeptic.com/archive/reading_room/economics-of-life-made-simple/ "The Case for a Free & Prosperous Society" Skeptic magazine, Volume 30 Number 2, July 4, 2025,https://www.skeptic.com/article/case-for-free-prosperous-society/ Articles in edited volumes
"The Great Depression,"The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics , ed. Peter J. Boettke. Hants, England: Edward Elgar, 1994 "Financial Economics,"The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics , ed. Peter J. Boettke. Hants, England: Edward Elgar, 1994 "Say's Law, Growth Theory, and Supply Side Economics,"Two Hundred Years of Say's Law , ed. Steven Kates. Hants, England: Edward Elgar, 2003 Hamowy, Ronald , ed. (2008). "Classical Economics".The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism . Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage ;Cato Institute . pp. 71– 73.doi :10.4135/9781412965811.n47 .ISBN 978-1412965804 LCCN 2008009151 .OCLC 750831024 .Hamowy, Ronald, ed. (2008). "Ricardo, David (1772–1823)".The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism . Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage ;Cato Institute . pp. 433– 434.doi :10.4135/9781412965811.n265 .ISBN 978-1412965804 LCCN 2008009151 .OCLC 750831024 . ^a b "Chapman University Faculty Page" .Chapman University .Archived from the original on September 23, 2024. RetrievedNovember 10, 2019 .^a b Metzger, Cerise Valenzuela (2022-08-12)."Presidential Fellow Mark Skousen named Doti-Spogli Chair in Free Enterprise at Chapman University" .Chapman Newsroom .Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved2023-11-29 . ^ "Mark Skousen" .Archived from the original on 2021-07-26. Retrieved2021-07-26 .^a b "Five Minutes with Ex-CIA Economist Mark Skousen, Chief Proponent of Gross Output & Founder of FreedomFest" .HuffPost . 2017-10-19. Retrieved2023-10-01 .^ "TownHall" .TownHall . July 1, 2017. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )^ "MoneyShow : About Us" .Intershow.com .Archived from the original on 2024-09-23. Retrieved2016-03-30 .^ "Cato Institute | Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and Peace" .Cato.org .Archived from the original on 2007-11-02. Retrieved2016-03-30 .^ School, Columbia Business (September 13, 2007)."Whole Foods Founder Offers New Business Paradigm" .The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics . {{cite web }}:|first= has generic name (help )^ "Econ 101: Is this the Best Way to Teach Economics?" .Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis . July 1, 2017. Archived fromthe original on June 28, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017 .^ "Chapman University/Our Faculty" . July 1, 2017.Archived from the original on September 23, 2024. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017 .^ "Grantham University In the News" . April 5, 2005.Archived from the original on September 23, 2024. RetrievedMay 18, 2018 .^ "Online Mark Skousen School of Business" .Grantham.edu . Archived fromthe original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved2016-03-30 .^ Skousen, Mark (1990).The Structure of Production ISBN 978-0814778951 ^ "IPD's Capacity Building and Journalism Program; Economic Journalism Training" . Archived fromthe original on February 6, 2005. RetrievedAugust 24, 2007 .^ "UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)" (PDF) .Ssees.ucl.ac.uk . 2011-03-22. Retrieved2016-03-30 .
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