It’s Not Capitalism Bringing Us Deaths of Despair
In recent years, authors left and right have tried to draw our attention towards the ills of the white working class, the “losers” of globalization. Here is a look at the latest work of Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton: Deaths of Despair.
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The 1619 Project: A Critique
In The 1619 Project: A Critique, I evaluate a number of factual and interpretive claims and provides an accessible resource for readers wishing to navigate the scholarly disputes, offering my own interpretive take on claims pertaining to areas of history in which I have worked.
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Coronavirus and Economic Crisis: The First Draft of History
The American Institute for Economic Research has now produced a book on the topic, written by our researchers in real time as the crisis unfolded. You will be struck by its prescience, first page to last.
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Boettke Makes Economics Life-Affirming and Intellectually Adventurous
For centuries, economists have struggled for ways to impart economic lessons to the general public, with the hope of impressing upon people who are not studying formally the need to grasp the logic and meaning of economics.
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Introducing The Harwood Reader
To form The Harwood Reader, we took Harwood’s own list of readings and put together what amounts to a Harwood-style education in economic theory, history, and policy. The result is spectacular in my view. Many of these readings are difficult to find, and they’ve never been put together in this way before.
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2019 AIER Book Catalog
Our publishing program is part of an entire suite of services provided by AIER, as a supplement to our daily articles, our programs around the world, our local care for students and professors, and our daily media appearances. The ethos of it all is a principled commitment to good theory, integrity, liberality, and enthusiasm for the role of ideas in shaping history.
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AIER Books Published in 2019
Twice in the 1930s, censors in Washington, D.C., sent letters to the American Institute for Economic Research demanding that we shut down our presses. Twice our founder E.C. Harwood refused to do so. Twice government backed down. What were we doing wro …
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Some Great Books for Stuffing Stockings
This is a lucky day for those of you who have procrastinated until the last minute to finish your Christmas shopping: I offer here a list of seven superb books published in 2019 that your open-minded friends and family members are sure to love. Deirdre …
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Growth Is Good
In his 2018 book Stubborn Attachments, Tyler Cowen defends a thesis that is likely to be as unpopular as it is misunderstood: over the long run, differences in growth rates swamp just about everything. Therefore, increased economic growth is a moral im …
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Bourbon for Breakfast After 10 Years
It was last year when I was invited to address a dinner party. I arrived to find a copy of this book at every place setting. I was momentarily mortified: this is surely not my best material. What even is in this book? This attitude does reflect my outl …
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Bourbon for Breakfast: How to Love Liberty and Love Life
Are you bothered by bureaucrats, but do you still love life? If so, Bourbon for Breakfast is for you. Jeffrey Tucker’s essays are a masterful parody of government and a celebration of little things that make the world a better place. Murray Rothbard re …
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Why Is AIER Publishing Karl Marx?
Reading the source helps you find the root errors and not get buffeted about by fake arguments that turn up on the news daily. In general, this task just granted me more confidence in a similar way that reading the right-Hegelians did.
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