Topic: Books

A Higher Minimum Wage, More Unions, and More Public Housing. Review of ‘Poverty, by America’ by Matthew Desmond

– June 1, 2023

“Desmond’s policy proposals almost all double down on collaboration between big government, big business, and big labor–the ‘system’ against which the American left first cut its teeth protesting.” ~ Max Gulker

Books, Economic Growth, Public Choice and Public Policy, Taxation

Continuing to Get Straight the Facts About the American Economy

– May 31, 2023

“Despite governments at the local, state, and federal levels all obstructing, in various ways, the process of entrepreneurial wealth creation, the robustness of the American economy continues to impress.”

Art and Culture, Books, Classical Liberalism, Regulation

Dr. Seuss, Philosopher Extraordinaire

– May 27, 2023

“It happens that, 75 years after Seuss wrote it, Thidwick turns out to be a good metaphor Western democracies.” ~ Bruce Rottman

Books, Capitalism, Economic Trends, Taxation

The Myth of American Inequality and Stagnation

– May 25, 2023

“The familiar trope of the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the middle classes treading water is disproved by devastatingly large amounts of empirical evidence.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Books, Economic Education, Free Markets

A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action by Brian Balfour

– May 15, 2023

“Countering the plague of economic falsehoods and disinformation that statists constantly spread is crucial to our liberty, and this book does so brilliantly.” ~ George Leef

Art and Culture, Books

A Review of Wynton Marsalis’s Moving to Higher Ground

– March 26, 2023

“It is the individual speaking her innermost feelings. In the words of the famous jazz composition by Norman Mapp, ‘jazz ain’t nothing but soul,’ and in our world now, we need that individual voice and soul more than ever.” ~ Daniel Asia

Books, Government, History

Sowing the Seeds of 1776

– February 28, 2023

“In April 1768, an opinion writer known only as ‘A Farmer in Pennsylvania’ finished the last letter in a series decrying the Townshend Acts and making the case for colonial Americans’ natural rights.” ~ Guy F. Burnett

Books, Economic History, Free Markets

Forging Modernity or Freedom?

– February 26, 2023

“Forging Modernity is an excellent example of old-school economic history, rich in detail and fine reading on a cold winter night, huddled together with loved ones for warmth, thanks to war, inflation, and plummeting economic freedom.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Books, Economic Education, Free Markets

Book Review: How the “Chip War” Vindicates Economics

– February 7, 2023

” Miller’s book exemplifies good, evidence-driven economic research. By educating the reader on the essential developments of the semiconductor industry, he inadvertently vindicates multiple economic thinkers and principles.” ~ Robertas Bakula

Books, Free Markets, Media

Words, Numbers, and Samuel Gregg

– February 4, 2023

“This week AIER’s Samuel Gregg joins AIER Senior Editor James Harrigan and Antony Davies on Words & Numbers to discuss his new book, The Next American Economy.” ~ AIER

Books, Education, Free Markets

An Apostate Indicts Our Educational System

– February 1, 2023

“Despite the hand-wringing from the education establishment that Thiel, Gibson, and others are doing something terrible when they persuade smart young people to eschew college, their idea is catching on.” ~ George Leef

Books, Government, History

The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom

– January 14, 2023

“Too many of the former and present members of the Court think of themselves as the nation’s conscience, but they have a great number of sins, both of commission and omission, to atone for” ~ George Leef