A Brief History of Equality
Thomas Piketty
New York: Harvard University Press, 2022; 288 pp.
Mark Thornton (mthornton@mises.org) is Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics at the Mises Graduate School, senior fellow at the Mises Institute, and book review editor at the QJAE.
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Ben Bernanke
New York: W.W. Norton, 2022; 512 pp.
Brendan Brown (monetaryscenario@outlook.com) is a nonresident senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and an associated scholar of the Mises Institute.
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Ben Bernanke
New York: W.W. Norton, 2022; 512 pp.
Greg Kaza (kaza@arkansaspolicyfoundation.org) is executive director of the Arkansas Policy Foundation.
The Economics of Prosperity: Rethinking Economic Growth and Development
Shawn Ritenour
Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2023; ix + 236 pp.
David Gordon (dgordon@mises.org) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
Quinn Slobodian
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2023; 336 pp.
David Gordon (dgordon@mises.org) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word
Michael Sonenscher
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022; 248 pp.
Chris Calton (calton@ufl.edu) is a PhD student in history at the University of Florida.
President Trump’s recent executive order forbidding burning the U.S. flag is in direct opposition to the property rights issue that Murray Rothbard took on the same subject.
In previous columns, we have criticized President Trump for abandoning our traditional foreign policy of non-interventionism, despite his campaign promises to reduce our commitments abroad. In this week’s column, I’d like to address another mistake Trump has made and continues to make. The mistake is not original to him but begins with Woodrow Wilson. This is the idea that wars can be settled by public meetings of the heads of state; in Trump’s language, he is trying to “broker a deal” between the contending parties.
Since being re-elected, the Trump administration has been establishing new measures to strengthen the US economic blockade against Cuba. According to Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, this is being done “to stand for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Cuba, and make clear no illegitimate, dictatorial regimes are welcome” in the US.
The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Binyamin Appelbaum
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019; 439 pp.
David Gordon (dgordon@mises.org) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
