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War on Prices
Ryan Bourne’s *The War on Prices* (2024-05-12)

The subtitle is Hw Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy .  I am happy to have blurbed this book, here is part of the Amazon description:

Economics in One Virus
Why I am not entirely keen on the Great Barrington Declaration and AIER (2021-04-12)

Let me first say that if you are libertarian, and would like a libertarian response to the pandemic, and you find Alex and me not libertarian enough, read the Ryan Bourne book from the Cato Institute .  You may not agree with everything in there, but it has no “gross errors” and no “biomedical weirdness.”  And people, the Cato Institute really is libertarian.  They once hired David Henderson as chief economist.

What I’ve been reading (2021-04-09)

5. Ryan Bourne, Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through Covid-19 .  This book came out yesterday, I read it earlier, and here is my blurb: “A truly excellent book that explains where our pandemic response went wrong, and how we can understand those failings using the tools of economics.”  It is published by Cato, a libertarian think tank, and it is a much better and more integrated and science-based account than what you might find from other groups, whether liberta...

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