The Revenge Origins of the Sherman Antitrust Act
With new discussion of regulating and even possibly breaking up social media and tech giants like Facebook and Amazon, or blocking the proposed acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T, antitrust policy is back in current events. Coincidentally, revenge and spite motivations for politicians are also back in political news, given the aftermath of the contentious 2016 presidential election.
The Danger of “Public” Education
Citizenship Question Won’t Be Most Pernicious Aspect of US Census
The hubbub over the Trump administration’s proposal to ask respondents about citizenship in the 2020 Census is mystifying because the response is so far out of proportion to the White House’s request. But the dispute is obscuring a much greater peril that the Census Bureau poses to Americans.
More of the Same: John C. Williams Named to New York Fed
John C. Williams will be taking his talents to New York, as the San Francisco Fed President has been announced as the successor to William Dudley. The selection, made by bank representatives within the New York Fed, is the latest example of the Federal Reserve maintaining the status quo.
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)]
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century
Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicholas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin
Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2017, xxvii + 272 pp.
Why Mainstream Economists Don’t See Recessions Coming
In his article released on March 21 2018 - Economics failed us before the global crisis – Martin Wolf the economics editor of The Financial Times expressed some misgivings about macroeconomics.
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)]
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality
by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, viii+ 221 pp.
Public Policy, Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Public Policy on Entrepreneurial Outcomes
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)
Public Policy, Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Public Policy on Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Edited by Gregory M. Randolph, Michael T. Tasto, and Robert F. Salvino Jr.
Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2017, 176 pp.
Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)]
Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
by Nima Sanandaji
London: Institute for Economic Affairs, 2015, 132 pp.
