The images of Venezuela’s economic collapse — long lines, shortages, and street protests — have quickly become a cliché of our increasingly connected internet experience. Even more played out are the simplistic arguments of why Venezuela is in ruins.
Juan de Mariana
Translated by Hazzard Bagg
It’s become quite fashionable for members of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) like Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson to decry equality of outcome as a thinly veiled guise for tyranny and oppression. However, in pleading against the doctrine of equality of outcome, these digital intellectuals inevitably defend the insidious doctrine of equality of opportunity.
How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future
Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia Chitu
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018, 250 pp.
Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics
Todd J. Zywicki and Peter J. Boettke, eds.
Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2017, 440 pp.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017
Hope Jahren, ed.
Wilmington, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2017, 352 pp.
ABSTRACT: Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, in their book Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (Princeton University Press, 2016), explore the reasons for the decline in the share of income captured by top earners in industrialized nations. Embedded in their take on the “Greatest Leveling” is a push for progressive redistribution policies, based on old misconceptions from Malthus and the Classical economists.
As the microbrewery trend is seeing a rise everywhere in the world, 2018 saw the launch of the White Collar Brewing in Bucharest, in my native Romania. Behind the already highly acclaimed beers lies an interesting piece of information: the brewery is the entrepreneurial endeavor of an Austrian economist, professor at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest and former Mises Institute fellow, Bogdan Glăvan.
