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...ound ignorance of the actual sociology and history of families. "Becker's book seems to me to be a mess of ideology, sophistry, and special pleading, salt ... leftover odds and ends, and is keyed to specific quotations from Becker's book.

...rd democracy, and uses the word democratic in only four places late in the book when discussing how there are market alternatives. In the [[Ayn Rand Lexic

Here’s how David Graeber explains it in his brilliant book Debt: The First 5,000 Years:

Interestingly, Rudolf Rocker’s 1949 book, published in Los Angeles, states that individualist anarchist Stephan P. A ..., and links to, Proudhon’s argument in the first self-labelled anarchist book that property was both “theft” and “despotism.” As we noted in sect

...Social Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Their new book, The Economics Anti-Textbook is available from Amazon. They also run a blog ...his material. So, let’s start with the format of these textbooks. In the book you say that they “cloak themselves in an aura of objectivity”. You the

...y of New Brunswick in Saint John and Fredericton (respectively). Their new book, The Economics Anti-Textbook is available from Amazon. They also run a blog ...erodox economics are rather fuzzy. What we are really taking aim at in our book is the narrow range of ‘mainstream economics’ that is presented to unde

..., let’s go to our man Ludwig von Mises and his 1922 book Socialism. The book is a full-frontal assault on all things socialist; one of the many cases he Corey Robin suggested I check out this book, and it is great. I love this part, as it is very relevant for the Right t

...rd democracy, and uses the word democratic in only four places late in the book when discussing how there are market alternatives. In the [[Ayn Rand Lexic

...e Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus—a book that belittles “imaginary oppressors” of minorities, blames homophobia

...e can sometimes seem a bit intrusive. The traditional God of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer is invoked as one "unto whom all hearts are open, all desi

...sation which, astonishingly, reaches agreement” (Deirdre McCloskey). The book has also been the focus of a symposium of liberal thinkers on the Bleeding ...n misunderstandings that cut across the liberal viewpoints surveyed in the book.

...t justified marital rape in this country until the 1980s. As I write in my book:

...n bordering on individualist anarchy" as Nozick put it, where he wrote the book's early chapters.) In fact, Nozick was the disinterested intellectual that True, a recondite book by an obscure professor wouldn't have made any difference if it hadn't caug

See also references in the appendix to my book “More Sex is Safer Sex”. My skepticism about the value of added education comes from Muhammad Yunus’ book “Banker to the Poor.” He also insists that the poor working people in h

...ive at a similar place, the two books take very different roads: Avent’s book is a bit wonkier and more economistic, focusing on the macro role of cities .... I have always loved cities, and the problem at the center of Yglesias’ book has been a pressing problem in my own life. (I enjoy very dense and cosmopo

[[Category:Book|Baker, Dean]] {{DES | des = [[Dean Baker]]'s online book describing how upwards distribution through markets is a result of governme

...ally appeared on AlterNet. It is adapted from Chris Mooney’s forthcoming book, "The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality, ...ive psychological differences, which I discuss in detail in my forthcoming book. An overall result is definitely that liberals tend to be more flexible and

...ology during the 1970s, as epitomized in biologist Richard Dawkins' famous book The Selfish Gene. As Dawkins summed it up, "We are survival machines - rob A line from libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick's path-breaking book, Anarchy, State and Utopia, says it all: "Individuals have rights, and ther

Darwin also wrote a book called Descent of Man, in which he very explicitly stated that natural sele In his recent book, The Fair Society (2011), biologist Peter Corning writes:

...more about the quality of the book than the price (profs don't pay for the book). The result is that the marketing and competition emphasizes quality, and ...e feedback, but to solicit feedback, they need to send a trial copy of the book. There is likely some value to the peer review aspect of this, but a signi