Category Archives: Book Reviews
Government Spending vs. Unemployment
The graph at the bottom of this page is enough to make me want to buy the book. It’s Not as Bad as You Think: Why Capitalism Trumps Fear and the Economy Will Thrive , by Brian Wesbury. A review will be forthcoming.
Systems and Checklists
It is very interesting to read two books like Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, by Sam Carpenter, and The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande, back to back because what strikes you is how similar their message is. Work the System details the long, [...]
The Wisdom of Keynes
Well it turns out John Maynard Keynes would have probably completely disagreed with the counter-cyclical policies we are currently seeing (reactions to free markets and deregulation leading to the over-regulations and over-muzzling of markets). I confess not having read Keynes’ A Treatise on Money (apart from several excerpts in our Macroeconomics class which I must [...]
How Markets Fail – By John Cassidy
We warned readers several months ago to expect an onslaught of books talking of the evils of the free markets and (fallaciously) talking up Behavioral economics as the mutually exclusive counterpoint. So we can’t help feeling somewhat vindicated by the fact that How Markets Fail, by John Cassidy, does just this. In all fairness, Cassidy [...]
