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{{DES | des = [[Tyler Cowen]]'s short, digital-only book is a non-academic attempt to divert attention from growing inequality. It ...designed to permit the worst sorts of confirmation bias: supporters of the book position can see commies in every woodpile. And a few years after publicat

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Sinclair's book "The Jungle" (1906) detailed the revolting and unsanitary practices that to ...ct" provisions allowing the government to obtain individuals' libarary and book-buying records — which ultimately died in negotiations with the Senate.)

...le denying it to those whom he deems naturally infe- rior (Aristotle 1905, Book I, sections 4–6).

...ave usually ingested a lot of them. In 1980 a rare exception appeared in a book review published in the Libertarian Review by Professor John Hospers, the L

... well? Doesn’t one further have to know many things which are in no rule-book, even: such as how to strategise putting a big score together, via the vari

The central point of Cole’s (1999, p.32) controversial and insightful book is that “if we assume – that is, believe that either the consumer, the

...nterview with "Code Name Cain" about the ideas in [[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]'s book "Democracy: The God That Failed". 6 parts. | show=}}

... causes uncertainty. Hans-Hermann Hoppe made all of this clear in his 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed.” ... and he is so logical and eloquent that I routinely quote from his classic book on the failure of democracy. Please color such quotes in red – I would ne

...art, see here. Red indicates exact quotes from Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed.”

...after a decade of speculation and influential journalism. Hayek panned the book for the “almost unbelievable” degree of obscurity of its equations. Ke It turned out that Treatise on Money wasn’t a very important book after all. Keynes hurried on to his General Theory of Employment, Interest,

... 1 and Part 2. Red indicates exact quotes from Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed.”

...2, and Part 3. Red indicates exact quotes from Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed.”

...3, and Part 4. Red indicates exact quotes from Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed.” ...d harder to resist democracy, but yes – Hans-Hermann Hoppe proves in his book that democratic government always leads to welfare state socialism. The Uni

... 4 and Part 5. Red indicates exact quotes from Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed.” pp. 61-62 of that book (which Hoppe cites on p. 6 and again on p. 97).

...rence curves for different types of individuals (compare p. 8 of Hoppe’s book). ...hy of comment. I often disagree with Hoppe, but I still found studying his book to be helpful in understanding certain ideas. As reader Alex points out,

...hat alone doesn't give you a theory of output and employment, which is the book's object.

...ntribution, Skidelsky demonstrates that Keynes's first important scholarly book, A Treatise on Probability (1921), was not unrelated to the rest of his con never read the book he claimed to be discussing.Nineth,Rothbard's claim that "

...s leading economics journals. Tyler Cowen has just reviewed Wapshott’s book in the National Review (see Marcus Nunes’s blog). ...a dangerously expansionary rate, as Hawtrey demonstrated in his exhaustive book on the subject A Century of Bank Rate. But it has never been even remotely

...ise of corporate power, and suggestions by corporate libertarians that the book somehow supports the notion of corporate dominance are either mistaken or o

...nd thus the word "democracy" does not even appear in the index of Nozick's book). ...e Chicago free-market economist Ronald Coase quotes from a legal reference book.

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[[Category:Book|Block, Walter]] ...ith any concept of the role of [[institutions]] will see the folly of this book. | show=}}

...d Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His latest book is The Next Convergence – The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed W

I’m quite taken with the central notion of Tyler’s new mini-book — that America has been picking the economic low-hanging fruit for decade ...ed this whole government section from the book without removing any of the book’s value. He just interjects some ideological axe-grinding here — promul

...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

[[Category:Book|Lakoff, George]] ...ndbook for progressive framing and political change. A short downloadable book. | show=}}

{{DES | des = A summary of [[Brian Miller]] and [[Mike Lapham]]'s book “[[The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals a Brian Miller and Mike Lapham have written the book that lays out the basic arguments we can use to begin to set things right.

..., but creative destruction is a vital part of capitalism. (That particular book is linked because he puts Schumpeter and Hazlitt right next to each other,