All Articles tagged free markets

• Book Reviews
  May 20, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets”
  David Gordon

  David Gordon reviews Thomas Philippon's "The Great Reversal," in which Philippon promotes competition but, like other technocrats, thinks he can do better than the unhampered market economy.

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• Book Reviews
  May 20, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society”
  David Gordon

  David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum's "The Economists' Hour," in which Applebaum argues that manipulable consumers are competent to select wise leaders, and blames the market for the failures of government.

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• Book Reviews
  May 20, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way through the Unfree World”
  David Gordon

  David Gordon reviews Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell's incisive and salty commentary on socialism around the world.

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