Reisman was born in New York City[1] and graduated from Columbia College in 1957.[4] As a sophomore in 1954, he was a supporter of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and spoke at a testimonial dinner to McCarthy's chief aide, Roy Cohn, following the latter's resignation. At the dinner, according to Time magazine, Reisman, representing the Students for America, called Cohn "the American Dreyfus," adding: "Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans."[5]
He earned his PhD from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises, whose methodological work The Epistemological Problems of Economics Reisman translated from the German original to English.
Reisman was a student of Ayn Rand, whose influence on his thought and work he described as being as great as that of his mentor, Mises.[4]
References
^ ab"George Gerald Reisman" (2002), Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, Retrieved on January 18, 2007.
^Reisman, George (1979). The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls. Ottawa, Ill.: Caroline House Publishers. ISBN0-89803-004-8. OCLC5908227.
^Reisman, George. (1996). Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books. ISBN0-915463-73-3. OCLC36200484.
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