The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter New York: Random House, 2020, 656 pp. Abstract: Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes is a new intellectual biography of a person who is arguably the most important person of the twentieth
Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is associate professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. PRIME MINISTER ABE SHINZŌ’S RESIGNATION AND THE END OF AN ERA IN JAPAN On August 28, 2020, Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzō entered a Tokyo press conference and began speaking. Speculation had been building for weeks that Prime Minister Abe
Confucian Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan by John H. Sagers Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xvi + 245 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is an associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 1 (Spring 2019), for
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 Hope Jahren, ed. Wilmington, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2017, 352 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is an assistant professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 2 (Summer 2018) full issue, click here . The Earth’s climate is extraordinarily
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 297–301 [ Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward P. Stringham] Leave people alone, and they will figure things out. This simple thesis, the heart of Edward Stringham’s Private Governance , is the touchstone for a myriad of examples from history and the
The Origin of the Prolonged Economic Stagnation in Contemporary Japan: The Factitious Deflation and Meltdown of the Japanese Firm as an Entity by Masayuki Otaki Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2016 x + 136 pp. Abstract: While Otaki has seen what the Japanese economic disease is, he has failed to understand what fundamentally causes it. Somehow,
Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower Todd J. Zywicki and Neal P. McCluskey, eds. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2019 268 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan3@wisc.edu) is associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Anyone who has been on a college campus these past few decades, or even
Ribatarianizumu: Amerika wo yurugasu jiyūshijōshugi (Libertarianism: The Ultrafreedomism Shaking Up America, published only in Japanese) Yasushi Watanabe Tokyo: Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2019 213 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan3@wisc.edu) is associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Libertarianism never really caught on in Japan. That is
Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) es profesor asociado en la Universidad Reitaku de Kashiwa (Japón). LA DIMISIÓN DEL PRIMER MINISTRO ABE SHINZŌ Y EL FIN DE UNA ERA EN JAPÓN El 28 de agosto de 2020, el primer ministro japonés Abe Shinzō entró en una rueda de prensa en Tokio y comenzó a hablar. Hacía semanas que se especulaba con la posibilidad
Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower Todd J. Zywicki y Neal P. McCluskey, editores. Washington, DC: Instituto Cato, 2019 268 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan3@wisc.edu) es profesor asociado de la Universidad de Reitaku en Chiba, Japón. Cualquiera que haya estado en un campus universitario en las últimas
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