Skousen was an economic analyst for the
CIA from 1972 to 1975.[6] He later worked as a
consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies.[7] 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 [8] has lectured for
think tanks,[9] 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,High-Income Alert, Fast Money Alert, and The 1600 Alert.) and publishes the Investor CAFÉ weekly electronic newsletter.
Economics
Skousen is a proponent of
Gross 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.[10]
Skousen's brief tenure as president of
FEE ended on a controversial note when he resigned in late 2002 at the request of the organization's board of trustees. This move followed Skousen's decision to invite, as keynote speaker for FEE's annual Liberty Banquet,
New York City Mayor
Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani proved to be an extremely unpopular choice among many of the organization's board members as well as several prominent libertarians.[why?]
FreedomFest
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 of
Young America's Foundation, and later, under Skousen's own direction and ownership.[18]
Written works
Academic books
The Structure of Production (New York University Press, 1990)
ISBN0-8147-7895-X
Economics on Trial (Irwin McGraw Hill, 1991; 2nd edition, 1993)
ISBN1-55623-372-8 Translated into Japanese.
Dissent on Keynes, editor (Praeger Publishing, 1992)
ISBN027593778X
Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics, co-authored with Kenna C. Taylor (
Edward Elgar, 1997)
ISBN1840640499 Translated into Korean and Chinese
Economic Logic (Capital Press, 2000, 2008, 2011, 2014).
ISBN1621572226 Fourth Edition includes chapters on macroeconomics and government policy, as well as microeconomics with Carl Menger's "theory of the good" and the profit-and-loss income statement to explain the dynamics of the market process, entrepreneurship, and the advantages of saving. Translated into Chinese by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press
The Making of Modern Economics (M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 2001, 2009)
ISBN0765622270 Winner 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Now in its second printing; translated into Chinese, Turkish, Mongolian, Spanish and Polish
The Power of Economic Thinking (Foundation for Economic Education, 2002)
ISBN1572462019 Translated into Chinese by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press
Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics (Capital Press, 2005)
ISBN0895260298 Translated into Chinese [19]
The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, compiled and edited by Mark Skousen (Regnery Books, 2006)
ISBN0895260336 Regnery Publishing has also published in paperback the original Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, edited with a new introduction by Mark Skousen, as Vol. I (1706–1757) and The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin as Vol. II (1757–1790)
The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes (M. E. Sharpe, 2007)
ISBN0765616947
EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World (Wiley & Sons, 2008)
ISBN0470138076 Translated into Korean & Portuguese
High Finance on a Low Budget (Bantam Books, 1981, Dearborn, 1993), co-authored with Jo Ann Skousen
ISBN079312557X
The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy (Simon & Schuster, 1983)
ISBN0932496113
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)
ISBN078616526X
The New Scrooge Investing (McGraw Hill, 2000)
ASINB000QCTONQ
Investing in One Lesson (Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2007)
ISBN1596985224
Maxims of Wall Street (Skousen Publishing, Inc 2011)
ISBN1596982985
A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street (Laissez Faire Books, 2013)
ISBN1621290921
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
"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,[20]
"Gross Domestic Expenditures (GDE): The Case for New National Aggregate Statistic", 2012, a working paper at University College of London [21]
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
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