Gene Callahan
| Gene Callahan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Gene Callahan is an American economist and writer. He is a charter member of the Michael Oakeshott Association, and is the author of two books, Economics for Real People[1] and Oakeshott on Rome and America.[2] He currently teaches at State University of New York at Purchase[citation needed] and is an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University.[3]
Callahan has written for Reason, The Freeman, The Free Market, The American Conservative, Slick Times, Java Developer's Journal, Software Development, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Human Rights Review, Independent Review, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, Review of Austrian Economics, and other publications. He was also a frequent contributor to LewRockwell.com, prior to 2008.
Originally from Connecticut, Callahan has a master's degree from the London School of Economics, a PhD from Cardiff University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Economics For Real People[edit]
David Gordon's review of Callahan's Economics for Real People in the Mises Review states:
Wittgenstein famously said, "whatever can be said, can be said clearly"; but does this apply to economics? Callahan, like his great predecessor, Henry Hazlitt, shows that it does. If the theme of Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson is the indirect effects of intervention in the economy, Callahan's dominant thread is the role of monetary calculation in making possible cooperative activity on a vast scale.[4]
According to economist Richard Ebeling, Callahan's book:
...neatly explains why socialist central planning must inevitably result in failure because the abolition of private property, market competition, and money prices eliminates the institutional prerequisites for economic calculation, without which the central planner is left with no rational method to determine whether or not the resources under his control are being applied in an efficient manner.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Callahan, Gene (2004) [2002]. Economics for Real People: an Introduction to the Austrian School (2nd ed.). Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 978-0945466413. OCLC 836219271. Search this book on
- ↑ Callahan, Gene (2012). Oakeshott on Rome and America. Charlottesville, VA: Exeter: Imprint Academic. ISBN 978-1845403133. OCLC 800863300. Search this book on
- ↑ "Dr. Gene Callahan." Cardiff University Website
- ↑ Gordon, David. "Hazlitt For Our Time". The Mises Review, Vol. 8, No. 3. Fall 2002. Ludwig von Mises Institute.
- ↑ Ebeling, Richard. "Book Review". Future of Freedom Foundation. November 2002.[1]
External links[edit]
- Callahan's blog
- Archive of articles on lewrockwell.com
- Archive of articles on mises.org
- Reason contributor profile/archive
- Articles on The American Conservative
- Gene Callahan at Goodreads
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