Who Is The Most Important Economist Of The 20th Century?

[GeorgiaAvenger]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphben...-20th-century/

Interesting article. I had never heard of the man.

[Gumba of Liberty]

Steve Forbes is trying to justify his idea that government should use the price of gold, not the CPI or unemployment, as a measuring stick for the speed by which central banks should inflate the currency. He is attempting to harness the anger of the anti-Fed/pro-gold standard movement and use it to preserve the current system. In this article, he is claiming that some obscure, yet possibly brilliant, economist was the greatest of the 20th century only to legitimize his ideas and to minimize the impact of Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. The fiat system is collapsing, currency wars are brewing, and whoever wins the intellectual arguments before the crisis hits will change the world. We are winning, they are trying, desperately, to catch up.

[GeorgiaAvenger]

Steve Forbes is trying to justify his idea that government should use the price of gold, not the CPI or unemployment, as a measuring stick for the speed by which central banks should inflate the currency. He is attempting to harness the anger of the anti-Fed/pro-gold standard movement and use it to preserve the current system. In this article, he is claiming that some obscure, yet possibly brilliant, economist was the greatest of the 20th century only to legitimize his ideas and to minimize the impact of Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. The fiat system is collapsing, currency wars are brewing, and whoever wins the intellectual arguments before the crisis hits will change the world. We are winning, they are trying, desperately, to catch up.

Do you realize that Steve Forbes doesn't write all of the articles on Forbes? In fact, he mainly is the editor. They are mostly free market, but have a wide range of economic writers.

This article was written by Ralph Benko, a good man. And he references Lewis Lehrman, a friend of Dr. Paul's.

Benko, Lehrman, and Steve Forbes for that matter all support ending the current system. I see no reason why you had to create a conspiracy theory.

[EcoWarrier]

Bill Vickry (Nobel prize winner), Mason Gaffney, Micheal Hudson come to mind.

[pochy1776]

LUDWIG VON MISES! OBVIOUSLY! Of course Thomas Sowell comes in a close third.
my Top 5
Ludwig Von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Thomas Sowell
Friedman
Robert P Murphy

[GeorgiaAvenger]

LUDWIG VON MISES! OBVIOUSLY! Of course Thomas Sowell comes in a close third.
my Top 5
Ludwig Von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Thomas Sowell
Friedman
Robert P Murphy

Murphy already? I'd say Hayek.

Schumpeter is a good choice too. As is Hazlitt.