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Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Legacy has Damaged America ; this book has a good compendium of free market critiques of Roosevelt, although I would not look here for a balanced review of the evidence. Senselessness , by Horacio Castellanos Moya; this is now my favorite novel from either Honduras or El Salvador, depending how you classify the nationality of the author. Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books . A fun inside h...
Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Legacy has Damaged America ; this book has a good compendium of free market critiques of Roosevelt, although I would not look here for a balanced review of the evidence. Senselessness , by Horacio Castellanos Moya; this is now my favorite novel from either Honduras or El Salvador, depending how you classify the nationality of the author. Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books . A fun inside h...
Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Legacy has Damaged America ; this book has a good compendium of free market critiques of Roosevelt, although I would not look here for a balanced review of the evidence. Senselessness , by Horacio Castellanos Moya; this is now my favorite novel from either Honduras or El Salvador, depending how you classify the nationality of the author. Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books . A fun inside h...
Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Legacy has Damaged America ; this book has a good compendium of free market critiques of Roosevelt, although I would not look here for a balanced review of the evidence. Senselessness , by Horacio Castellanos Moya; this is now my favorite novel from either Honduras or El Salvador, depending how you classify the nationality of the author. Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books . A fun inside h...
Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Legacy has Damaged America ; this book has a good compendium of free market critiques of Roosevelt, although I would not look here for a balanced review of the evidence. Senselessness , by Horacio Castellanos Moya; this is now my favorite novel from either Honduras or El Salvador, depending how you classify the nationality of the author. Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books . A fun inside h...
Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Legacy has Damaged America ; this book has a good compendium of free market critiques of Roosevelt, although I would not look here for a balanced review of the evidence. Senselessness , by Horacio Castellanos Moya; this is now my favorite novel from either Honduras or El Salvador, depending how you classify the nationality of the author. Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books . A fun inside h...
You can buy it here . Here is the book’s home page . I haven’t seen any serious reviews yet, nor has Google.
Thomas Simaku, String Quartets ; intense, from Albania .
Brahms, Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, by Manasse and Nakamatsu .
Bach, Brandenburg Concerti, rerecorded by Trevor Pinnock .
Alkan Organ Works, vol.II , by Kevin Bowyer
Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life, I-IV .
Vincent Persichetti: Piano Sonatas ; knotty American piano music.
Bernanke does suggest that some of the gains came from forced unionization and "efficiency wage" effects and yes that would credit the New Deal. But I doubt that is the best hypothesis and of course it contradicts the traditional account of profit-seeking behavior from businesses (why weren’t they paying the higher wages in the first place?). Rick Szostak’s work suggests that the New Deal saw lots of labor-saving, process innovations, which meant both high productivity gains and pressure on lab...
I’ve been rereading some of the essays in Ben Bernanke’s Essays on the Great Depression , which of course is self-recommending. I thought this passage summed up some relevant truths:
Of course that is from the Civil War and it is from the new book by Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn. Here is my previous post about the book , see also the links suggested by Matt in the comments. You can buy the book here .
That is from the forthcoming book by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn . I have not yet finished it but I believe this book will make a big splash. Here is the book’s home page . Here is a blog post by Matt Kahn on the book . Here is Matt Kahn on holding hands .
Can you say longue durée ? If so (or if not), here’s the new book by Barry Cunliffe , with the subtitle 9000 B.C.-AD 1000 indicating a coverage of murky yet critical millennia.
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...
Reflection of a Political Economist, Selected Articles , by William A. Niskanen; the nature of this book is self-evident. globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job , by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn; a good introductory look. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life , by John Adams; excellent for Adams fans, it helps make sense of the music. Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Not much. A very good, fun in...