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Fourth Edition

ECONOMIC LOGIC

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Fourth Edition

by Mark Skousen Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management

Grantham University

ECONOMIC LOGIC

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Dedicated to two giants

of the 20th Century,

Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

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OTHER ACADEMIC BOOKS BY MARK SKOUSEN

Playing the Price Controls Game

The Structure of Production

Economics on Trial

Dissent on Keynes (editor)

The Investor’s Bible: Mark Skousen’s Principles of Investment

Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics (co-authored with Kenna C. Taylor)

The Making of Modern Economics

Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?

The Big Three in Economics

Econo Power

The Maxims of Wall Street

A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street

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“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

–GENESIS 8:22

“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with the producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are moving impulses of our life.”

–CALVIN COOLIDGE (1925)