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... issue. It is unfortunate there isn't an affordable digital edition of the book. Joseph Heath's entry on the subject in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philos

I’m thinking about doing another book, which would be a reply to Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson a trac

In their 1998 book ”Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company T

What is original in the book is not true; and what is true is not original.

...nd Government Regulation." The IEA has now made her talk available as an e-book, together with some useful essays and commentary.

...cocksure that it might have been lifted from The God That Failed, that old book in which ex-Communists disavowed their former convictions, the right eviden ...al newspaper, I turned to the section most American newspapers reserve for book reviews and think-pieces and found instead: a profile of the management gur

...as Hayek’s 1944 work The Road to Serfdom. In a very real way it was this book that marked the close of Hayek’s career as a serious economic thinker and The over-arching argument of the book is well-known and need not be repeated too extensively here. Hayek thought

...the volume mentioned at the beginning of this piece. The evolution of this book was particularly important because it gave rise to a specifically American

...nd war had developed in Europe, as Keynes hinted that it might in his 1919 book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, due to punitive reparation policies

Sally E. Haden, in her book Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, notes that,

...ated in Robert J. Gordon’s work and in Tyler Cowen’s influential short book, The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-hanging Food of Modern H

...hat the only effective sweeping will be that which clears from the statute-book every restriction of the freedom of the market...7 (7) ‘The Lesson of Homestead’, Liberty, July 23 1892, in Instead of a Book (Gordon Press facsimile of Second Edi- tion, 1897, 1972), pp. 453-54.

... he hasn't left as long a paper trail of publications. Even so, his first book is a classic paranoid conspiracy rant about how "guvment is out ta gettcha!

...h and the tax code is too complicated." The site features a "Patriot Guest book" where supporters can write a message of support for CSE and the U.S. Tea P

... Instead of merely “covering the curriculum” or “getting through the book,” this new mission requires that schools substantially enrich the intelle

...tructure in American Life, by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. That book argued that nature far outweighed nurture; that perhaps ability was mostly ...s about differences among people. I think that was the contribution of the book. So, actually, I am a bigger fan of it than you might think.”

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... nature. Courtesy of Ryan Murphy, here's a graph from Stephen Pinker's new book showing war deaths as a percentage of population: ... nature. Courtesy of Ryan Murphy, here's a graph from Stephen Pinker's new book showing war deaths as a percentage of population:

Does hierarchy do better? In an influential recent book, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein suggest that it does. They argue that “ ...es, they imply that choice architects can use experimental techniques. The book’s opening analogy proposes a set of experiments, in which the director of

...he argument, put forward by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book The Spirit Level, that economic inequality has a negative multiplier effect

...e Detective Stories," from "Literature under Capitalism," a chapter in his book The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (1956) (the whole piece can be found here o Now, I won't say Mises' analysis is absolutely worthless. Indeed, in my book Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery (2012) I note, for example, how after the

...it atypical of Shlaes’s method. There is really no stronger proof in the book. As Jonathan Chait wrote in the New Republic, “The experience of reading But apart from Leonhardt and Chait (and this author, writing in Slate), the book received generally favorable treatment. Blurbed by Paul Volcker and Arthur

(1) As Tyler points out, and as I say in my book, the New Deal featured some notable errors. Everyone’s favorite to hate i

...continuance and intensity' - Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, Book 1, chap. 6). ...onally to entertain. 'More harm than good is likely to be done' the little book concludes, 'by almost any interference of Government with men's money trans

...ead his 1988 collection of essays, The Poverty of Communism. It was a fine book, deeply engaged with the broad traditions of history and moral philosophy. ...ia involved in what James C. Scott calls “seeing like a state” (in his book of the same name) clouds our vision when we’re conducting a cost-benefit

... and build a tax-free gated community for going Galt. It is an interesting book. The author, senior housing developer Rod Lockwood (double phallus!), has a It is the year 2043 in the book and Joe, despite being a handsome doctor with a keen fashion sense and a de

...nd arch-heretic Branden. After the split, any Rand cultist seen carrying a book or writing by Branden was promptly excommunicated. Close relatives of Brand

...ne economists reading these passages of Human Action and then throwing the book in the dustbin as they moved on to more important matters.

...of being fascist. This libel was given currency in Jonah Goldberg’s 2009 book “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini ...n American libertarianism, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. In his book “Liberalism,” published in 1927 after Mussolini had seized power in Ita

...writers--but adding errors of his own. Apparently at various points in the book, the author Dr. Smith refers to wonderful and enlightening experiments of h

...an Sanchez brings to my attention page 282 of Invariances, Nozick’s last book, in which contra my account here he seems to be espousing a view that I’d

Jonathan Wolff, Polity Press, 1991. This book details Nozick's only provide further evidence of his richness and profundity. If the book had

[[Category:Book|Polanyi, Karl]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book) Wikipedia has a very good summary here.]

... against the government monopoly of broadcasting, and wrote an influential book advocating the privatization of Iceland's main resource, its fisheries. ...the owners of fishing vessels. In 2002, Hannes Hólmsteinn published a new book--"How Can Iceland Become the Richest Country in the World?"--in which he se

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...viewed before publication. No support for the genetic claims made in this book has ever been found.

...y rational. Is this a correct interpretation? What’s the main message of book? ... – and that is one of the main points of my book. The other theme of the book sheds light on a group of financial models that (until recently) seemed to

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...Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, according to Rick Perlstein's excellent book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consens

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Angus Sibley’s new book “The ‘Poisoned Spring’ of Economic Libertarianism,” recently publis Sibley’s book provides a treasure trove of relevant Jewish and Catholic teachings that up

Robert Nozick, the Harvard philosopher whose 1974 book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" spurred much of the contemporary academic deba

... the contemporary world in Understanding Marxism. Here is how he opens the book: ...ral Marxism, Analytical Marxism, Critical Theory, and Post-Marxism. So the book provides very extensive explication of the theoretical ideas and developmen

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...y and who was now on the faculty of another." The subject was then shown a book excerpt by that "expert," in which the risk of the issue at hand was portra ... a very large megaphone to denialists. And Seth Mnookin, author of the new book The Panic Virus, notes that if you want to find vaccine deniers, all you ne

...emocracy Journal puts up Nick Eberstadt's complaint about my review of his book, A Nation of Takers, and my reply in response. ...al existing text I wrote. I was left to wonder: Did Brad actually read the book he reviewed?

... Young, a leftist British politician and sociologist, wrote in 2001 of his book that introduced the word “meritocracy” into our modern lexicon.

...ent with property rights. He wrote up his ideas in a few pages of his last book, while hiding from arrest ordered by the Jacobin-led Convention. Shortly af

The Myriad case was an embodiment of three key messages in my book “The Price of Inequality.” First, I argued that societal inequality was And that’s the third major theme. I titled my book to emphasize that inequality is not just morally repugnant but also has mat

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A new book is out entitled: The book includes a chapter by J. Mulvale & Y. Vanderborght on "Canada:

...l council, on the basis of the rental value of all real estate. In a later book, in which he further develops his proposal, he relabels it "dividende terit ...Principles of Political Economy, published the year after Charlier's first book. This discussion unambiguously ascribes to the Fourierists the proposal of

...‘state bonus league’ in 1919. Milner published several pamphlets and a book entitled Higher production by a bonus on national output: A proposal for a ...ore they became commonplace. Moreover, as forcefully expressed in his last book (Barry, 2005), he was one of those philosophers who believe that their job

... Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776. He mentioned it only once in the book, while he repeatedly noted situations where "natural liberty" does not work

...the footnotes of an old book on the history of lobbying by former Newsweek book editor Karl Schriftgiesser, published in 1951, shortly after the Buchanan C ...irst libertarian think-tank” as Reason’s Brian Doherty calls it in his book “Radicals For Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertaria

In his 1957 book A Theory of the Consumption Function—not exactly a crowd-pleasing title, ...out three decades after Friedman first propounded the doctrine in his 1959 book A Program for Monetary Stability. Today, however, it is a shadow of its for

In his 1957 book A Theory of the Consumption Function—not exactly a crowd-pleasing title, ...out three decades after Friedman first propounded the doctrine in his 1959 book A Program for Monetary Stability. Today, however, it is a shadow of its for

investments. As Thurow frames the argument in his latest book, Beginning with his book, Markets and Hierarchies, and

...retical and applied environmental sciences. In a vast library of published book and papers, these scientists warn us that if civilization continues on its ...he Revenge of Unintended Consequences. (Tenner, 1996) In his review of the book in Science, Landgon Winner cites some of these "unintended consequences:

Book Review ...would be MOM at TAM 5, I told him that I looked forward to reading the new book. I wasn't trying to flatter the master. I know a little about the moral sen

BOOK REVIEW Such is the pleasure and frustration of the new book "The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other

And yet, I think the book has a serious flaw: it provides no account of the political authority of pr ... necessary to achieve these benefits. That’s what the second part of the book is all about. So Huemer focuses in this chapter on the first part of the ar

Some of you were probably taught that Chapter 15 of Leviathan is the whole book. That’s the chapter where Hobbes addresses the “foole” who said in hi

...6], An Enquiry into the 􏰀ature and Causes of the Wealth of 􏰀ations, [Book 5, chapter 2]. THE private revenue of individuals, it has been shown in the first book of this Inquiry, arises ultimately from three different sources: Rent, Prof

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...-barons that Mathew Josephson used as the title of his book. Although this book is easy to read, well written, quite well referenced, and worth reading, it ...gs and flaws in McDonald's book as much as McDonald found flaws in Beard's book.

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How about education? According to the CIA World Fact book, the U.S. spends more than Mauritius—5.4 percent of GDP in 2009 compared

...port for collusion is especially the case in finance. Read Simon Johnson's book 13 Bankers, and you will hear him point out again and again that it was Rep

...st by an Austrian economist called Friederich Hayek. It was a summary of a book Hayek had written called the Road to Serfdom and it set out to prove scient A historian called Adrian Johns has written a brilliant book about Pirate Radio in the 1960s, called Death of a Pirate. In it he argues

...tions attacked Andrews’ credibility, effectively blunting the effect his book might have had on the public discourse on debt and bankruptcy.

On the advice of an old friend, Jan Frel, I read an excellent book on the human rights industry, James Peck’s Ideal Illusions, which helps a

... because it isn�t on the Web and I haven�t had time to get hold of the book. However, a quick google search for “Coase lighthouses” reveals a lot a ...kind, Samuelson had to have a fucking cherry on top of it. He wrote in his book that, not only did the non-excludability of lighthouse light mean that it w

DIANE RAVITCH: Writing a book is a very public way of saying I was wrong, and it was very important to sa JS: In your new book, Reign of Error, you say that the well-meaning people who support these ref

... Warwick). The behavioural reasons for this are explored in detail in this book by Truman Bewley, which Bryan Caplan discusses here. Both money illusion an

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... and Rosner, and Chisolm was no longer alive when they began writing their book. But from the history they relate in Lead Wars, it’s possible to imagine A coloring book from the 1920s extolling the virtues of lead paint. According to Gerald Mar

...nd in the Kochtopus. Pulitzer Prize winning-author Stephen Coll’s recent book, Private Empire, surveys the extensive influence—particularly over foreig

Interestingly, a glance at The Encyclopedia Of Libertarianism and Boaz's book on libertarianism shows that they do not discuss isolationism. And the form

In the "Theory of Moral Sentiments", his second most famous book, Smith discusses the position of philosophers in society. He argues that it ...of Sydney University. Smith opens the "Wealth of Nations", his most famous book, with a discussion of a pin factory:

..., The State of Working America: 12th Edition, an Economic Policy Institute book, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, p. 186.

...power—another widely neglected point." (excerpted from David C. Korten's book, When Corporations Rule the World.) ... default on the debt as a GOOD thing ! He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Wi

...sm can move to the left or right. It can be tolerant or intolerant. In her book Populism, Margaret Canovan defined two main branches of Populism: agrarian ...ouncil on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. In Robertson's book The New World Order, he trumps the Birchers (their founder called Dwight Ei

...ral governments around the world. Arundhati Roy describes, in her graceful book, Power and Politics, the socially disastrous results in India. ...s, and the Fate of the Federal Lands (Island Press, 2001). His forthcoming book is Degenerate Democracy: A Primer on the Corporate Seizure of America’s A

...c resistance as serious a threat as terrorism — recently published a book in which she imagines what might come next. She sketches a world where infe ...ne became so enraged by the ineffectiveness of antibiotics that he wrote a book about it.

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...um. As Larry M. Bartels, a political scientist at Vanderbilt, shows in his book “Unequal Democracy,” support in surveys for increasing the minimum wage

...Human Action is enormous. If Mises denies this, let him try to rewrite his book as a set of numbered axioms, postulates, and syllogistic inferences using, ...taking and valid deductive argument, then it should be possible to set the book out in a formal symbolic form in which all axioms, premisses, and deduction

... This argument appears to be based partly on Murphy’s discussion in his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (M * Note that Murphy’s assertion in his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal th

... that this criticism is overzealous: an attempt not merely to question the book, but discredit it entirely, and accuse the authors of various misrepresenta ... that this criticism is overzealous: an attempt not merely to question the book, but discredit it entirely, and accuse the authors of various misrepresenta

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...t Obama told profound lies to sell his program – he should call his next book “The Mendacity of Hope.”

...heir admiration. Presumably because he wrote the book On Liberty (the only book of his seemingly taught in political philosophy courses), I’ve run into m Here is one choice quote from Book V of Principles of Political Economy, in which Mill explains the inherently

...ting things he has to say, all pulled from the second printing of his 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed. It is a tad on the long side, but it's real

...you are getting a good deal and exploit addiction by design. Based on the book ''[[Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas]]'' by [[Natasha Sch ... years conducting field research in Las Vegas, culminating in a disturbing book, Addiction by Design. We are used to thinking of Vegas as a city of gaudy s

In my book The Globalization Paradox (W. W. Norton, 2011), I contemplate the following