12 Facts About Mark Skousen

Mark Andrew Skousen is an American economist and writer.

Mark Skousen currently teaches at Chapman University, where he is a Presidential Fellow at The George L Argyros School of Business and Economics.

Mark Skousen has previously taught at Columbia Business School, Mercy College, Barnard College, and Rollins College.

Mark Skousen is the nephew of W Cleon Skousen, the conservative author and faith-based political theorist.

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

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 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.

Mark Skousen has lectured on economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, Mercy College in New York, Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and Chapman University in Orange, California.

In 2018, Mark Skousen was awarded a Triple Crown in Economics by Steve Forbes for his work in economic theory, history and education.