Books & History
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Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Economic Misconceptions
From goblin banks to unbreakable galleons, the wizarding world of Harry Potter reflects a form of folk economics that clashes with the realities of prosperity and growth.
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Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained how markets work.
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Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.
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Sorkin’s ‘1929’: Panic, Politics, and the Search for Villains
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers a tightly written, highly readable account of the 1929 crash, using strong storytelling and vivid detail to trace the panic and its aftermath.
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The Razor’s Edge of Progress: How King Gillette Built an Abundance Revolution
With a pioneering slice of steel, the inventor demonstrated how know-how can redeem our scarcest resource: time.
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The Bitter Lessons of Sugar Control in World War I
Herbert Hoover’s wartime sugar program generated shortages that led to expanding rationing systems and increasingly centralized control over the allocation of sugar.
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Finding Sympathy for Karl Marx
The founder of Marxism once wrote movingly about faith and virtue before taking what his own father feared might be a “Faustian” turn toward revolution and resentment.
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Could Inflation Help Explain Falling Birth Rates?
Jeffery Degner’s recent book makes the case that monetary policy reshapes time preference, and with it, decisions about family formation.
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What Hayek Tells Us About the Limits of War Planning
F.A. Hayek’s insights challenge the idea of rational war: outcomes depend on dispersed, tacit knowledge no planner can fully access or control.
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Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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•
Harry Potter and the Deathly Economic Misconceptions
From goblin banks to unbreakable galleons, the wizarding world of Harry Potter reflects a form of folk economics that clashes with the realities of prosperity and growth.
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•
Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained how markets work.
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Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.
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•
Sorkin’s ‘1929’: Panic, Politics, and the Search for Villains
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers a tightly written, highly readable account of the 1929 crash, using strong storytelling and vivid detail to trace the panic and its aftermath.
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•
The Razor’s Edge of Progress: How King Gillette Built an Abundance Revolution
With a pioneering slice of steel, the inventor demonstrated how know-how can redeem our scarcest resource: time.
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•
The Bitter Lessons of Sugar Control in World War I
Herbert Hoover’s wartime sugar program generated shortages that led to expanding rationing systems and increasingly centralized control over the allocation of sugar.
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•
Finding Sympathy for Karl Marx
The founder of Marxism once wrote movingly about faith and virtue before taking what his own father feared might be a “Faustian” turn toward revolution and resentment.
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•
Could Inflation Help Explain Falling Birth Rates?
Jeffery Degner’s recent book makes the case that monetary policy reshapes time preference, and with it, decisions about family formation.
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•
What Hayek Tells Us About the Limits of War Planning
F.A. Hayek’s insights challenge the idea of rational war: outcomes depend on dispersed, tacit knowledge no planner can fully access or control.