David Gordon

David Gordon

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of the  Mises Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, the International Philosophic Quarterly, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Latest work

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How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall Independent Institute, 2024; xvii + 198 pp. This is an excellent book, but I should...
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The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken By Claes G. Ryn Republic Book Publishers, 2023; 468 pp. Claes Ryn, a leading conservative intellectual who taught politics for many years at...
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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative By Jennifer Burns Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023; x + 587 pp. Imagine that you come across this about the “education premium” on someone’s blog: “By going to...