Joakim Book
Research Fellow
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Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
A new edition of the investing classic offers strategy beyond luck: preparation, discipline, and knowing when to break your own rules.
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Bitcoin’s Ascent Is a Triumph for Truth and Economic Reality
Bitcoin is a vote of no confidence in the fiscal and monetary mess our officials made for us. We want rules, not rulers.
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Requiem for a Broken Progressive Dream: On Sore Losers and Gracious Winners
Echo chambers prevented many from hearing what voters actually care about.
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What Happens if Bitcoin Goes Up Forever?
Central bankers who attack bitcoin should apply the same skepticism to a legacy system of fiat money.
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Village and River at the Poker Table
Our political and philosophical tribes may come down to how well we calculate risk.
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Public Goods in a Free Society
“Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like many other well-intentioned public finance policies, in time they turn into pure money grabs.” ~Joakim Book
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Erik Angner’s Defense of Our Dismal Discipline
“The conversational tone is excellent for the wide audience he intends — those skeptical of economists and economics — and it’s easy enough to follow along his clear prose even for those without prior training in our arcane arts. ” ~Joakim Book
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The Virtues of Social Market Order: Review of ‘Abundance, Generosity, and the State’
“Goods and services received gratuitously are not the same as those obtained as a right, especially when governments have extorted tax-‘payers’ at the point of a gun.” ~Joakim Book
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Dollar Dominance, Dollar Dependence
“Skeptics to the global monetary hegemon have long called for its demise — on causes of design or ideology, theory or empirics. And for decades, they have been proven wrong.” ~Joakim Book
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Sloppy Utopia
“The book is irrelevant in the exact meaning of that word: It does not answer the question it sets for itself, does not rise to the task of chronicling the big economic changes of the extended twentieth century, does not adequately and accurately capture a believable grand narrative.” ~Joakim Book
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Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
A new edition of the investing classic offers strategy beyond luck: preparation, discipline, and knowing when to break your own rules.
-
•
Bitcoin’s Ascent Is a Triumph for Truth and Economic Reality
Bitcoin is a vote of no confidence in the fiscal and monetary mess our officials made for us. We want rules, not rulers.
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•
Requiem for a Broken Progressive Dream: On Sore Losers and Gracious Winners
Echo chambers prevented many from hearing what voters actually care about.
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What Happens if Bitcoin Goes Up Forever?
Central bankers who attack bitcoin should apply the same skepticism to a legacy system of fiat money.
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•
Village and River at the Poker Table
Our political and philosophical tribes may come down to how well we calculate risk.
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•
Public Goods in a Free Society
“Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like many other well-intentioned public finance policies, in time they turn into pure money grabs.” ~Joakim Book
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•
Erik Angner’s Defense of Our Dismal Discipline
“The conversational tone is excellent for the wide audience he intends — those skeptical of economists and economics — and it’s easy enough to follow along his clear prose even for those without prior training in our arcane arts. ” ~Joakim Book
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•
The Virtues of Social Market Order: Review of ‘Abundance, Generosity, and the State’
“Goods and services received gratuitously are not the same as those obtained as a right, especially when governments have extorted tax-‘payers’ at the point of a gun.” ~Joakim Book
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•
Dollar Dominance, Dollar Dependence
“Skeptics to the global monetary hegemon have long called for its demise — on causes of design or ideology, theory or empirics. And for decades, they have been proven wrong.” ~Joakim Book
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•
Sloppy Utopia
“The book is irrelevant in the exact meaning of that word: It does not answer the question it sets for itself, does not rise to the task of chronicling the big economic changes of the extended twentieth century, does not adequately and accurately capture a believable grand narrative.” ~Joakim Book