George Gerald Reisman (; born January 13, 1937) is an American economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and the author of The Government Against the Economy (1979), which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt, and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996). He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism. Biography Reisman was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1957. He earned his PhD from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises, whose methodological work The Epistemological Problems of Economics Reisman translated from the German original to English. In the 1980s, with his wife, psychologist Edith Packer, he organized the Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics, and Psychology, which held several conferences and seminars, the first being held at University of California, San Diego. Its lecturers included Leonard Peikoff, Edward Teller, Petr Beckmann, Hans Sennholz, Bernard Siegan, Anne Wortham, Robert Hessen, Allan Gotthelf, David Kelley, John Ridpath, Harry Binswanger, Edwin Locke, Walter E. Williams, Mary Ann Sures, Andrew Bernstein and Peter Schwartz. Attendees of these conferences include later Objectivist writers Tara Smith and Lindsay Perigo. Reisman was a student of Ayn Rand, whose influence on his thought and work he described as being as great as that of his mentor, Mises. References External links Reisman's website Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian Warum Nationalsozialismus Sozialismus war und warum Sozialismus totalitär ist Works Government Against the Economy (1979) Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996) Archives Reisman archive at Mises.org Reisman archive at LewRockwell.com Reisman archive at Free Market News Network 1937 births Living people 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American economists 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American economists American male non-fiction writers Austrian School economists Jewish American social scientists Jewish American writers Mises Institute people New York University alumni Objectivism scholars Objectivists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers