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Review Essays

Review Essay: Sound Money without Free Banking: Revisiting Economic Principles
October 19, 2023 CDT
Review Essay: Sound Money without Free Banking: Revisiting Economic Principles
Kristoffer J. Mousten Hansen

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen reviews Larry White's _Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin_, and contends that the choice is between gold and bitcoin, not between monetary policies.

The End of the Abe Administration--The End of Abenomics? Books on Past and Present in the Japanese Political Economy
January 18, 2021 CDT
The End of the Abe Administration–The End of Abenomics? Books on Past and Present in the Japanese Political Economy
Jason Morgan

Jason Morgan reviews several recent books on political economy in Japan, including the "coronavirus interruption" and other problems affecting Japan's economic development.

Planned Economy and Economic Planning: What "The People's Republic of Walmart" Got Wrong about the Nature of Economic Planning
May 20, 2020 CDT
Planned Economy and Economic Planning: What “The People’s Republic of Walmart” Got Wrong about the Nature of Economic Planning
Márton Kónya

Phillips and Rozworski's "The People's Republic of Walmart" argues that large firms like Walmart and Amazon are evidence that a collectively planned economy can work. Márton Kónya reveals their errors.

Book Review: _T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer_
November 02, 2018 CDT
Book Review: T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
Jason Jewell

T.R.M. Howard was an entrepreneur and civil rights leader who offers a corrective to overly simplistic narratives about the civil rights era and African-American history more generally.

November 01, 2018 CDT
Review Essay: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
David Gordon

Quinn Slobodian's book on neoliberalism fails to see the difference between the free market and a governmentally imposed regime of globalization, says David Gordon.