13 Facts About Mark Skousen

Mark Andrew Skousen is an American economist and writer.

Mark Skousen currently teaches at Chapman University, where he has been the Doti-Spogli chair in free enterprise at the Argyros School of Business and Economics since 2022.

Mark Skousen is the nephew of W Cleon Skousen, the political conservative and activist.

Mark Skousen is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mark Skousen has five children with his wife Jo Ann.

Mark Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975.

Mark Skousen later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies.

Mark Skousen was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal as well as to various libertarian periodicals.

Mark Skousen has been a speaker at investment conferences and has lectured for think tanks.

Mark Skousen has lectured on economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College, Mercy College, Rollins College, and Chapman University.

Mark Skousen served as president of the libertarian economic think tank The Foundation for Economic Education from 2001 to 2002.

Mark Skousen is a proponent of Gross Output, an economic concept used to measure total economic activity in the production of new goods and services in an accounting period.

Mark Skousen highlighted the concept in his work, The Structure of Production in 1990.