Topic: Books

How to Really End ESG

– September 13, 2024

“It’s incumbent upon ESG critics to advocate an alternative vision, not merely to fall in line with convention.” ~Russell Greene

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Overhaul for the Uninsured?

– September 10, 2024

“Full reliance on a public budgeting system for providing access to medical care is a certain prescription for millions of disappointed patients.” ~James C. Capretta

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Interventions, Easy Money Run Amok

– August 27, 2024

“An obvious set of perverse incentives simply stimulate more risk-taking by corporate management and investment firms in the future, resulting in even bigger future bailouts down the road. At a certain point this strategy of holding the wolf by the ears will become untenable.” ~Richard Morrison

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More Money Can’t Solve Poverty

– August 22, 2024

“From a high of almost 35 percent after World War Two, the poverty rate had already fallen to 19 percent in 1964. It continued its downward trend over the next few years, then has stagnated between 10 percent and 15 percent ever since.” ~Nikolai Wenzel

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Public Goods in a Free Society

– August 20, 2024

“Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like many other well-intentioned public finance policies, in time they turn into pure money grabs.” ~Joakim Book

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The Permanent Temptation of All Governments 

– August 20, 2024

“The math of 2 percent compound shrinkage demonstrates that the Fed wants to depreciate the dollar’s purchasing power by 80 percent in each average lifetime. Somehow the Fed never mentions this.” ~Alex Pollock

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People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

– August 19, 2024

“Mass movements attract followers who fail to make meaning in their lives, and seek a borrowed meaning from a destructive leader.” ~Barry Brownstein

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Loury’s ‘Late Admissions’ is Right on Time

– August 15, 2024

“Economists often get lost in abstractions…By coming to terms with himself, Glenn Loury gains a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the same communities in which he was raised.” ~Michael N. Peterson

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Erik Angner’s Defense of Our Dismal Discipline

– August 13, 2024

“The conversational tone is excellent for the wide audience he intends — those skeptical of economists and economics — and it’s easy enough to follow along his clear prose even for those without prior training in our arcane arts. ” ~Joakim Book

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‘Counterweight’ to Conformity

– August 6, 2024

“This book an accessible guide to understanding the ‘once insurgent but increasingly entrenched ideology’ that has inflicted upon society a culture of alienation, fear, resentment, revenge, hostility, and polarization.” ~Habi Zhang

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Free Kids from Their Cells

– August 1, 2024

“To keep our kids from harm, we have exposed them to brain-altering habits, online predators, and addictive pastimes that don’t just have the risk, but the near certainty, of making those now children turn out to be anxious and dysfunctional adults.” ~Michael Munger

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nemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 02/1931. Original NARA photo from US Information Agency archives. This photo was taken by Arlen Parsa on January 4th, 2011 at the same location (935 S. State St). The original sign read "Free Soup, Coffee and Doughnuts for the Unemployed."

The Virtues of Social Market Order: Review of ‘Abundance, Generosity, and the State’

– July 25, 2024

“Goods and services received gratuitously are not the same as those obtained as a right, especially when governments have extorted tax-‘payers’ at the point of a gun.” ~Joakim Book

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