Joakim Book

  • 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

    Public Goods in a Free Society
  • 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

    Erik Angner’s Defense of Our Dismal Discipline
  • 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

    Erik Angner’s Defense of Our Dismal Discipline
  • 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

    The Virtues of Social Market Order: Review of ‘Abundance, Generosity, and the State’
  • Foot Voting Reconsidered: How Should I Think About Leaving?

    “Compared to ballot voting, moving has larger individual impacts, which mean greater incentives to acquire knowledge; it provides a better signal to both the country you’re leaving and the one you’re joining.” ~Joakim Book

    Foot Voting Reconsidered: How Should I Think About Leaving?
  • Bitcoin Is ‘Resistance Money’

    “Freedom money, wielded by its users and resistant to capture, identification, and censorship, doesn’t dispel unfair laws or make evil rulers go away — but almost nothing else does that either.” ~Joakim Book

    Bitcoin Is ‘Resistance Money’
  • 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

    Dollar Dominance, Dollar Dependence
  • 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

    Sloppy Utopia
  • Unlimited Growth, Forever

    “Every popular scare of the past has been side-stepped, improved, or solved, by one or another human effort, usually serendipitously and rarely at all with well-meaning bureaucrats directing the process. ” ~Joakim Book

    Unlimited Growth, Forever
  • Bitcoin Mining and Icelandic Bananas

    “Stranded energy and unused electricity are magnets for bitcoin miners, as they take electricity that can’t readily be used for other purposes and turn it into one of the world’s most liquid and globally transferable assets.” ~Joakim Book

    Bitcoin Mining and Icelandic Bananas