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2007
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In Discover Your Inner Economist one of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage-often when you least expect it to be relevant.
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2007
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Bryan Caplan’s book, The Myth of the Rational Voter, challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy falters when politicians stray from voter interests. According to Caplan, it’s not the corrupt politicians who cause democracy’s follies, it’s the voters themselves. Voters are worse than just ignorant. They view the economic world with a series of systematic biases that consistently deviate from the realities of elementary economics.
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2007
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In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions.
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2007
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The governance concepts in Charles Koch’s Science of Success are presented in the rubric of Market-Based Management and are anchored to the immutable law of markets: voluntary, mutually beneficial exchange directed by the price system rather than the state.
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2007
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Radicals for Capitalism has considerable strengths. It is a significant and original contribution to the literature of liberty in the U.S. that deserves a place in the libraries of libertarians and classical liberals everywhere and also of those who are seriously interested in American history since the 1940s.
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2006
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"A onetime infantry soldier and diplomat, Gordon Tullock is a lawyer by training but an economist by nature. He "is someone who more or less consciously thinks like an economist" (James Buchanan, 1987). And think he has. Tullock's ideas have had profound influence on the course of economic, political, and legal understanding....Nowhere has Tullock's influence been more pronounced than in the field he helped found: public choice...It is fitting, then, for Tullock to pen an introduction to the field he helped develop. Those interested in such an introduction would be well advised to turn to Tullock's seminal primer, The Vote Motive."
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2006
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Robert Nozick wrote that "there is room for words on subjects other than last words." David Schmidtz, philosophy professor at the University of Arizona, has just produced a great work of "words other than last words."
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2006
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James Bovard has written an important and timely book. In Attention Deficit Democracy, Bovard focuses on one of the most understudied aspects of modern democratic government, the extent of voter ignorance and the ramifications an ill-informed electorate may have for democratic politics. While social scientists and pundits occasionally note that the public often exhibits shocking displays of ignorance, few have turned to examine how such ignorance actually effects the process of government. As Attention Deficit Democracy discusses how voter ignorance has influenced American democracy, it is an interesting and insightful read that should be of interest to a broad spectrum of readers.
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2005
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Ambition no longer checks ambition, as James Madison intended; rather, judicial apathy lets ambition do whatever it pleases. Bernard Siegan’s Economic Liberties and the Constitution is an impassioned attempt to correct this error and awaken the judiciary from its jurisprudential stupor.
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2005
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James Stacey Taylor’s book Stakes and Kidneys is an important contribution to the political debate surrounding markets and organ trade. While this book is an attempt to defend the moral legitimacy of markets in human organs, its real achievement is to offer more secure foundations for understanding the relationship between autonomy and poverty, in response to those who would argue that individuals' actions are dictated by their economic circumstances.
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