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Volume 11 |
2009 |
Tomorrow's news today!
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BOOKS OF CONSEQUENCE
BOOK REVIEWS
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Robinson, |
Cooper,
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Baumol, Litan & Schramm, "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism" |
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Åslund, "How Capitalism Was Built" |
Tavakoli, |
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ARTICLES
ARCHIVE CATEGORIES
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ECONOMIC BASICS
Knowledge is power!
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Adam Smith, |
Part I, |
Part II, |
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David Ricardo, "Principles of Political Economy." |
Joshua Muravchik, |
Friedrich A. Hayak, |
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Karl Marx, |
Part II, |
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Karl Marx, |
Part III, |
Part IV, |
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Karl Marx, |
Part V, |
Part VI, |
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John Maynard Keynes, "The
General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money." |
Part I, |
Part II, |
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Martin Wolf, "Why Globalization
Works." |
Part I, |
Part II, |
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Friedman & Schwartz,
"Monetary History of U.S., (1867-1960)," |
Friedman & Schwartz, "Monetary History of U.S. (1867-1960)," |
Friedman & Schwartz, "Monetary History of U.S.
(1867-1960)," |
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Meltzer, "History of Federal Reserve, vol. 1 (1913-1951)," Part I, "The Search for Stability (1913-1923)." |
Meltzer, "History of Federal Reserve, vol. 1 (1913-1951)," Part II, "The Engine of Deflation (1923-1933)." |
Meltzer, "History of Federal Reserve, vol. 1 (1913-1951)," Part III, "The Engine of Inflation (1933-1951)." |
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David S. Landes, |
"Because Men Are Not Angels!" J. Madison.
Monk, "The Words We Live By"
Annotated Guide to U.S. ConstitutionPart II,
Amendments to the Constitution of the United StatesBowen, "Miracle at Philadelphia"
The Constitutional ConventionPart II,
"The Compromises and Accommodations that Made the Nation."Isaacson,
"Benjamin Franklin"McCullough,
"John Adams"Rakove,
"James Madison,"Tocqueville, "Democracy in America,"
BOOKS OF CONSEQUENCE
BOOK REVIEWS
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The most accurate, complete and uncompromising reviews of books on consequential subjects available anywhere! |
20th Century History
History opens windows on the future!
David Kennedy,
"Freedom from Fear" (I) The Great DepressionDavid Kennedy,
"Freedom from Fear" (II) World War IIJ. M. Roberts,
"Twentieth Century"Conquest,
"Reflections on a Ravaged Century"Gaddis,
"We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History" (1945-1963)Kotkin,
"Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse" (1970-2000)Meier, "Black Earth, A Journey Through Russia After the Fall."
Gaddis,
"The Cold War"Kuklick, "Blind Oracles: Intellectuals & War from Kennan to Kissinger."
MacMillan,
"Paris 1919" (I) Reordering of Europe.MacMillan, "Paris, 1919" (II) Reordering of Middle East & Far East. Treaty of Versailles Keynes,
"Consequences of the Peace."
Economics
Porter, Takeuchi & Sakakibara,
"Can Japan Compete?"Shiller,
"Irrational Exuberance"Enriquez,
"As the Future Catches You"Chow,
"China's Economic Transformation."De Soto,
"Mystery of Capital"Krugman,
"Return of Depression Economics"Hendry & Ericsson, "Understanding Economic Forecasts."
Gordon, "The Business of America."
Economic HistoryReynolds,
"The New Regionalism: Economic Development
Globalization
O'Rourke & Williamson,
"Globalization and History"Backman,
"Asian Eclipse"Wallace, "The Future of Ethnicity, Race, & Nationality" & Inkeles, "One World Emerging?"
James,
"End of Globalization"Anderson,
"All Connected Now"Irwin,
"Free Trade Under Fire"Bhagwati,
"Free Trade Today"Stiglitz, "Globalization and its Discontents"
Government
Shleifer & Vishny,
"The Grabbing Hand"Dror:
"Capacity to Govern"Andrisani, Hakim & Leeds, "Making Government Work."
Lobel,
"Presidential Judgment"Levitt,
"Take on the Street"Chow,
"Knowing China"Olson,
"The Rule of Lawyers"Posner,
"Frontiers of Legal Theory, "Brimelow, "The Worm in the Apple"
(Education)Calleo, "Rethinking Europe's Future"
Mann & Ornstein
Congress: "The Broken Branch."
International Affairs & U.S. Foreign Policy
Nye,
"Paradox of American Power"Mearsheimer,
"Tragedy of Great Power Politics"Brzezinski,
"Geostrategic Triad"Mead,
"Special Providence"Chua, "World on Fire"
(Ethnonationalist Hatred)Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"
(Military History)Barnett, "The Pentagon's New Map"
(Military Strategy)Ferguson,
"Colossus"Mead, "God and Gold"
Health & Health Care
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Gratzer, |
Richmond & Fine, |
Porter & Teisberg, |
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Willett, "Eat, Drink & be Healthy" |
Katzen & Willett, "Eat, Drink &Weigh Less" |
Futures Research
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Armstrong: |
Glenn & Gordon, |
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Hendry & Ericsson, "Understanding Economic Forecasts." |
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Miscellaneous
Theroux,
"Dark Star Safari"
(Africa)Guest, "The Shackled Continent."
(Africa)Easterly,
"White Man's Burden"
(Africa)Posner,
"Public Intellectuals"
(Advocacy scholars)Kotlikoff & Burns,
"The Coming Generational Storm"
(Demography)Herman, Olivo, Gioia, "Impending Crisis"
(Management)Harrison & Huntington,
"Culture Matters"Perry & Goldman, "Grassroots Political Reform in China."
THE DEBUNKING OF AUTHORITATIVE MYTHS
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The most accurate, complete, and non ideological account of the facts of the Great Depression available anywhere! |
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Speak the truth, my son! Though the heavens fall from the sky, speak the truth! |