Roger Wayne Garrison (born 1944) is an American
professor
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of
economics
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at
Auburn University
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, and an adjunct scholar of the
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a libertarian nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, United States. It is named after the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).
It wa ...
.
He is a proponent of the
Austrian School
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of economics and wrote the book ''Time and Money,'' which presents a graphical framework for capital-based macroeconomics and offers a critique of
Keynesian
Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output and ...
graphical analysis. Garrison received an
electrical engineering
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degree in 1967 from the
University of Missouri–Rolla and a master's degree in economics from the
University of Missouri–Kansas City
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in 1974. Garrison received his Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Virginia
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in 1981. Garrison has lectured all over the world, including the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
.
Mark Skousen
Mark Andrew Skousen (; born October 19, 1947) is an American economist and writer. He currently teaches at Chapman University, where he is a Presidential Fellow at The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics. He has previously taug ...
, in ''Vienna and Chicago'' refers to Garrison as "one of the premier Austrian macroeconomists today." (p. 113)
See also
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Kaleidics
The term kaleidics ( ''kalos'': "good", "beautiful"; εἶδος ''eidos'': "form", "shape") denotes the ever-changing shape and status of an economy. Uncertainty is the primary kaleidic factor. It is strongly associated with the work of George Sh ...
References
External links
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Professor Garrison's homepageAudio/Video of Roger W. Garrison
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1944 births
Living people
People from Joplin, Missouri
Auburn University faculty
Mises Institute people
Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni
University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni
University of Virginia alumni
Austrian School economists
Economists from Missouri
21st-century American economists