To state the bias of the reviewer, I do not like the club profiled, with some detachment and flashes of insight and wit, by Angus Deaton in Economics in America, a book organized around economic policy issues and confected from commentaries originally penned over several decades. Deaton, a Scottish immigrant and winner of the Swedish Riksbank’s prize “in memory of Alfred Nobel”…
Read MoreTyranny, Inc. is a book about the nature of labor relations, the conduct of corporations, and political possibilities in postindustrial America. Sohrab Ahmari, a journalist and editor whose magazine credits span the ideological spectrum from Dissent to the American Conservative, here combines anecdote and analysis with the awful ring of truth. It would be exhilarating if the portrait were not so grim. Ahmari’s first theme is coercion…
Read MoreStoller’s goal in Goliath is to cast the economic history of the United States as an epic struggle between the big and the little, between evil and powerful monopolies and the resistance of a few heroic champions of small business, market competition, and economic liberty. Among the virtuous are Louis Brandeis, Robert Jackson, Thurman Arnold, and, especially, Patman…
Read MoreIn this remarkable work, Robert Skidelsky—historian, biographer, and tribune of Keynesian ideas in the House of Lords—unites his experience, knowledge, and talents in a sweeping account of money and power. His topic is not money and power…
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