May 2025 ISSUE

Book Review

Popular Economics Books to Read or to Avoid

By Arnold Kling

This article has two lists: a list of popular economics books that I recommend reading; and a list of popular economics books that I recommend avoiding.1 What is a popular economics book? My first thought is that it is written without the mathematics and diagrams that ...
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Why Nogales Fails

By Roberto Salinas León

In their influential magnum opus, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson develop the proposition that the wealth of nations is ultimately the outcome of political and economic institutions able to generate prosperity, progress and the distribution of opp...
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Book Review

Law, Legislation, and Libertarianism

By Alberto Mingardi

A Book Review of Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society, by John Hasnas.1 "Look around." John Hasnas's main political advice may sound extravagant. But his remarkable book, Common Law Liberalism,1 is a caveat against "inattentional blindne...
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The Inescapable Principle of Comparative Advantage

By Erik W. Matson

David Ricardo. In a recent article in The Financial Times Nat Dyer argues that economists misunderstand tariffs.1 He points out that tariffs have political and moral dimensions not captured by standard economic reasoning. We therefore take economists' widespread advo...
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Dwight R. Lee

Can Capitalism Survive? Ben Rogge on Capitalism's Future

Liberty Classics Feb 4 2019

Voting with Ballots versus Voting with Your Feet

Featured Article Feb 5 2018

Bootleggers, Baptists, Anger, and Voters

Featured Article May 2 2016

The Sharing Economy Is As Old As Markets

Featured Article Aug 3 2015

Do the Poor Vote Their Self-Interest?

Featured Article Aug 5 2013

The Two Moralities of Ebenezer Scrooge

Featured Article May 6 2013

Socially Responsible Corporations: The Seen and the Unseen

Featured Article Feb 4 2013

Reducing Real Output by Increasing Federal Spending

Featured Article Jan 2 2012

The Political Economy of Morality: Political Pretense vs. Market Performance

Featured Article Dec 6 2010

Should Government Reduce Inequality in Life Spans?

Featured Article Jan 5 2009

Pierre Lemieux

Princess Mathilde and the Immorality of Politics

Book Review Apr 1 2024

Legal Safeguards Against Omnipotent Lawmakers

Book Review May 1 2023

Constitutional Democracy: Is Democracy Limited by Constitutional Rules?

Book Review Jan 2 2023

Social Justice as a Tribal Remainder

Book Review Oct 1 2022

F.A. Hayek: Between Classical Liberalism and Conservatism?

Book Review Mar 7 2022

The State Is Us (Perhaps), But Beware of It!

Book Review Jan 3 2022

Liberalism and Laissez-Faire in Albert Schatz's Economic and Social Individualism

Liberty Classics Jun 1 2020

How the State Has Grown to Be the Monster We Know: Bertrand de Jouvenel's On Power

Liberty Classics Jul 1 2019

Lessons and Challenges in The Limits of Liberty

Liberty Classics Nov 5 2018

The Tyranny of the National Interest

Article Sep 3 2018

An Unavoidable Theory of the State

Liberty Classics Jun 4 2018

Boeing vs. Bombardier

Featured Article Sep 4 2017

The Economics of Political Balderdash (With a Few Examples)

Featured Article Apr 3 2017

In Defense of Cash

Featured Article Oct 3 2016

Free Trade and TPP

Featured Article Feb 1 2016

In Defense of Google

Featured Article May 4 2015

The Economics of Tax Dodging

Featured Article Jan 5 2015

The Vacuity of the Political "We"

Featured Article Oct 6 2014

The Economics of Smoking

Featured Article Jun 28 2000

David M. Levy

Happiness, Progress and the "Vanity of the Philosopher". Part 2. The Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh

Featured Article Dec 5 2005

Happiness, Progress and the "Vanity of the Philosopher". Part 1.

Featured Article Jun 6 2005

The Anti-Exchange Coalition: Godwin Remakes the World

Featured Article Jul 7 2003

An Inquiry into the Causes which Affect the Happiness of Nations: The comfort of the lower orders

Featured Article Jan 6 2003

The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part VI. Eugenics and the Amoralization of Economics

Featured Article May 13 2002

The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part V. Parasite Economics and Market Exchange

Featured Article Dec 17 2001

The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part IV. Paternalism, Hierarchy, and Markets

Featured Article Aug 27 2001

The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part III. The Governor Eyre Controversy

Featured Article Jun 4 2001

The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part II. Brotherhood, Trade, and the Negro Question

Featured Article Mar 26 2001

The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part I. Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th Century

Featured Article Jan 22 2001

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