Is Big Bad?
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy By Matt Stoller. Simon & Schuster, 2019. Hardcover, 608 pages, $30. Reviewed by Andrew R. Kloster Framing political debates today is nearly impossible. It is beyond debate at this point that our...
Xenophon’s Science of Political Economy
The Shorter Writings by Xenophon, edited by Gregory A. McBrayer. Cornell University Press, 2018. Paperback, 414 pages, $25. Reviewed by Pedro L. Gonzalez The fires of the Social War that brought the imperial power of Athens to its knees had not yet been slaked when...
The Cost of Cultural Free-Riders
Why Culture Matters Most by David C. Rose. Oxford University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 197 pages, $35. Reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond David Rose’s Why Culture Matters Most tackles a question that economists have been loath to take on—the connection between morals and...
The Six Communal Institutions and the Modern Economy
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth. Atlantic Books, 2019. paperback, 288 pages, $16. By Gerard T. Mundy Communal institutions keep the classical liberal–free market state from implosion. As the strength of what this essay identifies...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.