Roger Wayne Garrison (born 1944) is an American

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at Auburn University, 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 ...

. He is a proponent of the

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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 an ...

graphical analysis. Garrison received an electrical engineering degree in 1967 from the University of Missouri–Rolla and a master's degree in economics from the

University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and one of only two member universities with a medical school. As of 2020, the university ...

in 1974. Garrison received his Ph.D. in economics from the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

in 1981. Garrison has lectured all over the world, including the

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. Mark Skousen, in ''Vienna and Chicago'' refers to Garrison as "one of the premier Austrian macroeconomists today." (p. 113)

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