Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future Kirkpatrick Sale Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017 411 pages What attitude should supporters of the free market take toward decentralization? Should libertarians support the movement for Catalonian autonomy, for example, even if leaders of that movement are unfriendly
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House, 2018 To review Skin in the Game is a risky undertaking. The author has little use for book reviewers who, he tells us, “are bad middlemen. Book reviews are judged according to how plausible and well-written they are; never in how they map the book (unless of
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 x+381 pages Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Wellesley College, tells us that Globalists “is a long-simmering product of the Seattle protests against the World Trade organization in 1999. I was part of a generation that ... became
[ The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, and the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2018.] Niall Ferguson has impeccable credentials as a member of the “Establishment” (a word that comes, he tells us, from the historian A.J.P. Taylor). He has taught history at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and NYU and is also a
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl Princeton University Press, 2018 xii + 337 pages Radical Markets has at least one virtue. The book contains many unusual proposals, and I propose to concentrate on one of the strangest of these. Eric Posner, a legal scholar, and Glen Weyl, a
As Joseph Stiglitz sees matters, the euro suffers from a fatal flaw. The euro is the currency of 19 European countries; and common money blocks efforts of nations that, according to Stiglitz, need to devalue their currencies. More generally, attempts to restrict government control of the economy arouse the wrath of this implacable enemy of the
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century , Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin, eds. Cato Institute, 2017 When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2015, it suffered an unexpected fate for a treatise of 700 pages, filled with statistics and equations. It became a bestseller. Proclaimed a
¿Qué actitud deben adoptar los partidarios del libre mercado hacia la descentralización? ¿Deberían los libertarios apoyar el movimiento por la autonomía catalana, por ejemplo, incluso si los líderes de ese movimiento no son amistosos con el libre mercado? ¿Tenemos el deber de difundir las instituciones de libre mercado a lo largo y ancho de la
[ The Austrian 4, nº 3, Mayo-Junio de 2018] [ Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life · Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Random House, 2018] Reseñar Skin in the Game es una tarea arriesgada. El autor desdeña a los críticos de libros, quienes, nos dice, “son malos intermediarios. () Las críticas de libros se juzgan de acuerdo con lo plausibles y
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 x+381 pages Quinn Slobodian, un historiador en el Wellesley College, nos dice que Globalistas “es un producto a largo plazo de las protestas de Seattle contra la organización mundial de comercio en 1999. Fui parte de una generación que...
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