Books

  • Three Books on the Covid/Lockdown Catastrophe

    “These are three of what will be thousands of books that will be appearing in the coming years on these tragic times. I’m willing to wager that most of these books will severely condemn the policy decisions of the last year, just as these have done. There will be a reckoning. These books are an…

    Three Books on the Covid/Lockdown Catastrophe
  • The Geographic History of Us

    “Dartnell’s lesson isn’t that geography determines, but that geography shapes. It set the ground rules for how the climate behaves, how the currents run and the winds blow, and along those rules all human history progressed. ‘The Earth,’ he appropriately ends, ‘shaped our history.'” ~ Joakim Book

    The Geographic History of Us
  • Entrepreneurship: A Fading Virtue

    “It is entrepreneurs who form the foundation and operational unit of Austrian economics but sadly, their importance is slowly fading from mainstream economic analysis. Such a view of economics not only fails to acknowledge a basic tenet of the economy, but opens the door to a perception of society that merely views individuals as numbers…

    Entrepreneurship: A Fading Virtue
  • Thomas Paine, Debt Realist and Political Economist Extraordinaire

    “Paine’s remarkably accurate and pithily expressed ideas about political economy can now be found in a convenient edition of his work, The Best of Thomas Paine, published by AIER and edited by yours truly.”~ Robert E. Wright

    Thomas Paine, Debt Realist and Political Economist Extraordinaire
  • Debts, Deficits, and the Entitlement Crisis

    “The US government’s debt is soaring like never before and promises to only bring economic stagnation if not outright disaster. Looking past Covid-19, we should strive to implement bold reforms to our costly but important entitlement programs to truly deliver on fiscal stability. These reforms may not be popular or easy but there is no…

    Debts, Deficits, and the Entitlement Crisis
  • To Decline or Not Decline: Western Civilization’s Endless Nemesis

    “Judging by the many failed prophets of the past, neither are we this time doomed, from climate change or corporate takeovers or from cultural values and demographics deteriorating. That’s an explosively optimistic notion in a world otherwise flirting with madness.” ~ Joakim Book

    To Decline or Not Decline: Western Civilization’s Endless Nemesis
  • The Assault On Our Right To Earn A Living

    “Economic freedom allows us to do everything from building awesome financial systems capable of moving billions of dollars to intimate cultural experiences such as purchasing home-cooked meals from a local restaurant. The assault on our right to earn a living began over a hundred years ago and has now become the accepted reality today. It…

    The Assault On Our Right To Earn A Living
  • The Covid Crucible

    “Constant repetition of the bizarre and obviously untrue mantra that policymakers are ‘following the science’ and not basing Covid policy on the 21st-century equivalent of spectral evidence suggests that Miller was on to something fundamental. So watch or read The Crucible until the crucible of Covid repression spurs a new literary treatment of the dangers…

    The Covid Crucible
  • Should We Rethink Macroeconomics?

    “Critiques of mainstream macroeconomics are common among Austrian economists. In a new book, titled Macroeconomics as Systems Theory, Richard Wagner goes further. He starts with Erik Lindahl’s distinction between microeconomics as individual action and macroeconomics as interaction. He then offers a new approach to macroeconomics based on theories of complex systems.” ~ William J. Luther

    Should We Rethink Macroeconomics?
  • Unfreezing the Economy After Lockdowns

    “In order to emerge with an economy that can produce prosperity for all and not just those who benefited from lockdowns, we need to embrace the ideas of sound economics, innovation-friendly rules, and individual agency. It was the principles of a free society that brought the wonders of modernity into existence, and it’s the same…

    Unfreezing the Economy After Lockdowns
  • When Financial Markets Bubble, There’s Something for Everyone

    “Whenever something seems bubbly, accusations of tulips and South Sea bubbles are never far away – even though the proportion of people who could actually explain those iconic episodes of our financial past is frighteningly close to zero. Levenson’s account of the South Sea Bubble will not, I daresay, be the last time historians find…

    When Financial Markets Bubble, There’s Something for Everyone
  • Why We Need Simple Rules for a Complex World

    “Our current bias towards trying to make a government rule for every single issue that arises in society is not only ignorant of the very institutions of freedom that make our society prosper, but it also threatens to continue a vicious cycle that fuels an ever-encroaching state. A more optimal solution to address societal issues…

    Why We Need Simple Rules for a Complex World