Books & History
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Hamilton’s Economic Vision Had One Crucial Blind Spot
Hamilton recognized the importance of manufacturing but overlooked the market processes that create lasting prosperity.
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Revolutions Worlds Apart: Why America Chose Liberty and France Chose Terror
Both the American and French Revolutions promised “power to the people.” One delivered it; the other descended into bloodshed and chaos. Why?
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A Republic That Cannot Budget
In ‘Fiscal Democracy in America,’ Kurt Couchman contends that Congress’s broken budget process requires constitutional and procedural reform to reestablish accountability and control over federal spending.
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Why Much of Manhattan Would Be Illegal to Build Today
Zoning laws drive up housing costs and freeze cities in the past. New York City is a clear example.
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When Congress Waged War on Cheap Groceries
Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency. The resulting law protected competitors at the expense of grocery buyers.
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The Founders’ Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
Lawrence Reed’s latest book reframes the American founding not as a burst of political genius, but as the culmination of generations of reading, debate, and intellectual inheritance.
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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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Hamilton’s Economic Vision Had One Crucial Blind Spot
Hamilton recognized the importance of manufacturing but overlooked the market processes that create lasting prosperity.
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•
Revolutions Worlds Apart: Why America Chose Liberty and France Chose Terror
Both the American and French Revolutions promised “power to the people.” One delivered it; the other descended into bloodshed and chaos. Why?
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•
A Republic That Cannot Budget
In ‘Fiscal Democracy in America,’ Kurt Couchman contends that Congress’s broken budget process requires constitutional and procedural reform to reestablish accountability and control over federal spending.
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•
Why Much of Manhattan Would Be Illegal to Build Today
Zoning laws drive up housing costs and freeze cities in the past. New York City is a clear example.
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•
When Congress Waged War on Cheap Groceries
Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency. The resulting law protected competitors at the expense of grocery buyers.
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•
The Founders’ Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
Lawrence Reed’s latest book reframes the American founding not as a burst of political genius, but as the culmination of generations of reading, debate, and intellectual inheritance.
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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.