Roger Garrison
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Roger Garrison is a professor
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 of economics
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 at Auburn University
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, Alabama
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 and adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
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He is a proponent of the Austrian School
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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 graphical analysis. Garrison received an electrical engineering
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 degree in 1967 from the University of Missouri–Rolla
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 and a masters degree in economics from the University of Missouri–Kansas City
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 in 1974. Garrison received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia
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 in 1981. Garrison has lectured all over the world, including the London School of Economics
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Mark Skousen
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, in Vienna and Chicago refers to Garrison as "one of the premier Austrian macroeconomists today." (p. 113)

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