Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or against Adam smith and his system of natural liberty.

Mark Skousen is adjunct professor of economics and finance at Rollins College; editor of Forecasts & Strategies, a monthly investment newsletter; and a columnist for Forbes magazine.

Patrick Cullen, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., where he continues to live and work in the theater.