I read my first book by Joseph Stiglitz last semester. I read Making Globalization Work. I will admit that it is absolute junk, and absolutely horrible to read, but since then I have become addicted to his writing. It just makes great material to criticize. As to not leave me bored, Stiglitz published yet another [...]
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It’s Just Common Sense
I just received my copy of Common Sense Economics, by L. Albert Hahn, from the Ludwig von Mises Institute. I’ve only skimmed it, but it seems to be a more complete and rigorous version of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. While the latter focuses on the very basic mercantilist economic fallacies which pervade modern [...]
Spanish Economic History
Recently purchased three books dealing with the economics of the Spanish Empire, in preparation for an article.
Into the World of Objectivism
Some new books to tell you all about!
Dr. Hayek on Money and Capital
Piero Sraffa’s critique of Prices and Production, published in 1932. Sraffa’s critique would form the center of the Cambridge critique of the Austrian theory of capital.
Reading List
My “required reading” list for January until June 2010: Prices & Production, A History of Money and Banking in the United States, The Theory of Money and Credit, Free Banking and Making Poor Nations Rich.
Reading Capitalism
New reading group to slowly read and dissect George Reisman’s seminal “Capitalism”.
How Not to Make Globalization Work
In Making Globalization Work, Joseph Stiglitz fails to make a good case against liberalization. Instead, he further underscores liberalization’s importance in global development, and instead misidentifies mercantilism as ” capitalism”.
David Gordon’s “Five Best Books on the Current Crisis”
Driving back from the Mises Circle at Newport Beach, I am left with a fairly decent quantity of information to disect. During the lectures, David Gordon offered his opinion on the “five best books on the current crisis”. I present them here to you, with their respective editorial reviews on the Mises Store website.
