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Found 3 books

Book
Mentions on MR
The once and future king
Best non-fiction books of 2014 (2014-11-24)

First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better .  And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...

*The Once and Future King* (2014-03-13)

The author is my colleague F.H. Buckley and the subtitle is The Rise of Crown Government in America .  I am very enthusiastic about this book, which is a comparative study of American and Canadian systems of government with respect to the abilities to produce varying degrees of tyranny, in the former case mostly through the executive branch.  Buckley is himself from Canada and overall favors that system of government.  Here are two excerpts:

American Illness
Arrived in my pile (2013-06-29)

2. F. H. Buckley, editor, The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law .

Arrived in my pile (2013-03-19)

1. Frank H. Buckley, editor, The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law .

Fair governance
What I read some time ago (2009-02-04)

2. Frank H. Buckley, Fair Governance: Paternalism and Perfectionism ; a critique of "Nudge" and soft paternalism.

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