A few things caught my eye right out of the gate … the Common Sense Economics bookis small, but more important is the list of people that endorse it: Milton Friedman (Nobel laureate) Vernon Smith (Nobel laureate) James Buchanan (Nobel…
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Quick Book Review: It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years
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Immunizations, electricity, and the microprocessor: the best inventions/discoveries ever? Stephen Moore and Julian Simon‘s book It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 years years is one of the most repetitive, boring, and profound books…
Quick Book Review: A Nation of Sheep by Andrew Napolitano
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Judge Napolitano’s best work yet, imho. This is the 3rd book of his that I’ve read and they keep getting better.[A Nation of Sheep] This one is under 300 pages and reads quickly. Napolitano excoriates the feds for their repeated…
Quick Book Review: Discover Your Inner Economist
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Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist by Tyler Cowen I wrapped up this book a week or two ago, just getting to the review now that Christmas is…
Book Review: 33 Questions about American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask
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This book [33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask] is new, just published in 2007. See below for an interview with Dr. Woods about the book. The book is endorsed by both Dr. Ron Paul and economist…
Quick Book Review: The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
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I was flipping through my bookcase and realized I’d never made an entry here about Dr. Thomas Woods’s wonderful The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. The front of the book has an endorsement from Dr. Ron Paul, what more…
Quick Book Review: The Pirate Coast
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This book [The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805] just caught my eye at the library. It covers the First Barbary War the U.S. fought with the Barbary States in North Africa circa…
Quick Book Review: The Invisible Heart
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This book (The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Dr. Russ Roberts) has been in my Amazon queue for a while. Finally got around to ordering it. My 10 year old daughter grabbed it before I did and loved it.…
Quick Book Review: … Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
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Charles Adams’s When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession is a good complement to the Thomas DiLorenzo books I reviewed earlier this year (here and here). In short, the arguments presented include: the South…
Quick Book Review: FDR’s Folly by Jim Powell
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FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depressionby Jim Powell “ … on April 27, 1942, FDR issues a message to Congress in which he declared, ‘No American ought to have a net income, after he…