Retro Book Reviews: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius...
University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales’s book A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, attempts to...
View ArticleBest Books of 2021: Keith E. Stanovich, The Bias that Divides Us: The Science...
Today’s political polarization isn’t just annoying, it’s damaging important cultural and family institutions. And tensions won’t de-escalate until people figure out the root of the problem. University...
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I, Pencil Meets Today’s Political Realignment
Conservatives are different than they were just a few years ago, and it isn’t just because of Trump, who is more a symptom than a root cause. There is a larger political realignment underway, as...
View ArticleJohn Stuart Mill on the Limits of Economics
We must never forget that the truths of political economy are truths only in the rough: they have the certainty, but not the precision, of exact science. -John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political...
View ArticleFighting Bias and Misinformation, from Pierre Bayle’s 17th Century to the...
Many people insist that media bias and misinformation are getting worse in the social media age, and we need to do something about it. Depending on whether one leans Democratic or Republican, tech...
View ArticleThe Progressive Playbook? Thoughts on a Slippery Slope
Is there a master plan behind the blunders of governments? Or are politicians just making it up as they go along? The cabal model is tempting. A lot of people tend to believe that it is not enough for...
View ArticleDifferent Attitudes Towards Life
In today’s polarized discourse, there is a stark difference between thinkers who spend most of their time being for something, and those who spend most of their time being against something. One...
View ArticleWho Bears the Burden of Proof in Justifying Regulations?
John Stuart Mill gave his answer on p. 938 of the Liberty Fund edition of his Principles of Political Economy, in volume 3 of his collected works: “[T]he onus of making out a case always lies on the...
View ArticleUpcoming CEI Event: Bart Wilson on The Property Species
At noon ET on Thursday, February 11, CEI is hosting an event with the experimental economist Bart Wilson, author of The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind. He is also a frequent...
View ArticleBest Books of 2020: Joseph Henrich – The WEIRDest People in the World: How...
It’s early, but The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich will likely be one of the new decade’s most influential...
View ArticleBook Review: Eric Metaxas – Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas – Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010) Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He was a German pastor who became a prominent resistor to Hitler’s Third Reich....
View ArticleBest Books of 2020: Virgil Henry Storr and Ginny Seung Choi – Do Markets...
Most people see markets as dens of greed and moral corruption. In their new book, Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?, Virgil Henry Storr and Ginny Seung Choi, of the Mercatus Center at George Mason...
View ArticleBook Review: Eamonn Butler – Friedrich Hayek: The Ideas and Influence of the...
Eamonn Butler – Friedrich Hayek: The Ideas and Influence of the Libertarian Economist (Hampshire, UK: Harriman House, 2012) Butler has written accessible intellectual biographies of several major...
View ArticleEconomics Has a Moment of Zen
Frank Knight (1885-1972) was one of the founders of the Chicago school of economics. Three of his students won Nobel prizes: George Stigler, Milton Friedman, and James Buchanan. One of Knight’s most...
View ArticleRetro Reviews: Azar Gat with Alexander Yakobson – Nations: The Long History...
Though military historian Azar Gat wrote Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, he gives extensive credit to fellow historian Alexander Yakobson for his...
View ArticleImmanuel Wallerstein – The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and...
Immanuel Wallerstein – The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century Wallerstein was the primary creator of the core-periphery...
View ArticleThomas Paine – Common Sense
Thomas Paine – Common Sense A few years ago, I had a brief conversation with Tom Palmer in which he drew a contrast between the bourgeois Paine and the more aristocratic Edmund Burke. Paine is direct,...
View ArticleIs New Conservatism Really Progressivism?
My colleagues Kent Lassman and Iain Murray have an important new piece asking if the new post-2016 conservatism is really progressivism. It’s worth reading.
View ArticleDaron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson – The Narrow Corridor: States,...
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson – The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Acemoglu has been on the economics Nobel shortlist for some time. Robinson is a frequent...
View ArticleSabine Hossenfelder – Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Sabine Hossenfelder – Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray One of my top books of the year. Hossenfelder brilliantly covers the intersection of philosophy, hard science, and social science....
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