Books & History
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How H.B. Reese Turned Failure Into Sweet Success
The entrepreneur behind the peanut butter cup once worked at Hershey’s. In his own basement, he discovered the power of turning failure into opportunity.
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What Turned a Stock Market Crash into the Great Depression?
The stock market crash may have started the trouble, but Federal Reserve failures and New Deal interventions transformed a downturn into the Great Depression.
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Expectations Matter. This Year’s Economics Nobel Explains Why.
Nobel laureates helped explain how expectations shape spending decisions, inflation, and the effectiveness of economic policy. Yes, that feels obvious.
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Deirdre McCloskey Wants Old Liberalism Back: ‘Equality of Permission’
In ‘Equality of Permission,’ McCloskey returns to familiar ground: free markets, individual dignity, and the dangers of statism. What makes it distinctive is the force and flair of her argument.
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The Anti-Federalist Warning About America’s Debt Crisis
Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.
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‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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Mao’s ‘Great Leap’: Mass Starvation on The Road to Serfdom
Mao’s revolution encouraged peasants to murder landlords. Then he abolished private property completely. The resulting economic failure became history’s deadliest man-made famine.
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Do You Know These 24 Underrated Economists?
A new collection celebrates 24 ‘Unsung Heroes’ of free-market thinking, bringing their important ideas into the spotlight.
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The Battle for the Future of Space
Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.
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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz’s new book succeeds as a thoughtful history of modern marriage but misdiagnoses the economic forces reshaping it.
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How H.B. Reese Turned Failure Into Sweet Success
The entrepreneur behind the peanut butter cup once worked at Hershey’s. In his own basement, he discovered the power of turning failure into opportunity.
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•
What Turned a Stock Market Crash into the Great Depression?
The stock market crash may have started the trouble, but Federal Reserve failures and New Deal interventions transformed a downturn into the Great Depression.
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•
Expectations Matter. This Year’s Economics Nobel Explains Why.
Nobel laureates helped explain how expectations shape spending decisions, inflation, and the effectiveness of economic policy. Yes, that feels obvious.
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Deirdre McCloskey Wants Old Liberalism Back: ‘Equality of Permission’
In ‘Equality of Permission,’ McCloskey returns to familiar ground: free markets, individual dignity, and the dangers of statism. What makes it distinctive is the force and flair of her argument.
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•
The Anti-Federalist Warning About America’s Debt Crisis
Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.
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•
‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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•
Mao’s ‘Great Leap’: Mass Starvation on The Road to Serfdom
Mao’s revolution encouraged peasants to murder landlords. Then he abolished private property completely. The resulting economic failure became history’s deadliest man-made famine.
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•
Do You Know These 24 Underrated Economists?
A new collection celebrates 24 ‘Unsung Heroes’ of free-market thinking, bringing their important ideas into the spotlight.
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•
The Battle for the Future of Space
Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.
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•
The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz’s new book succeeds as a thoughtful history of modern marriage but misdiagnoses the economic forces reshaping it.