George Reisman

George Reisman, Ph.D., is Pepperdine University Professor Emeritus of Economics, and the author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1996; Kindle Edition, 2012), The Government Against the Economy, and 17 other titles shown on his Amazon.com author's page, as well as numerous additional articles and monographs. His website is www.capitalism.net. Follow him on Twitter @GGReisman. His blog is georgereismansblog.blogspot.com. Dr. Reisman was married for thirty-nine years to the late Edith Packer, J.D., Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and author of Lectures on Psychology: A Guide to Understanding Your Emotions. He was personally a student of Ludwig von Mises, whose NYU seminar he attended for eight years and under whom he obtained his doctorate in economics in 1963. He is the translator of von Mises's Epistemological Problems of Economics (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1960). From1957 until her death in 1982, he was a member of Ayn Rand's "Collective."