About me
Mark Skousen is an economist, investor, and educator known for bridging academic theory and real-world markets. He is the founder and producer of FreedomFest and has spent decades advancing the case for free markets, entrepreneurship, and sound money.
A former professor at Columbia Business School and current professor at Chapman University, Skousen has authored more than 25 books on economics, history, and liberty. His latest book, The Greatest American: Benjamin Franklin — The Most Versatile Mind of His Era, reframes Franklin not only as a founding father but as a pioneering economic thinker whose curiosity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit helped shape the American experiment.
At FreedomFest, Skousen connects the ideas of the American founding with the economic principles that power a flourishing society — making the case that liberty and prosperity rise together.
