Monthly Archives: June 2013

The Failure of the New Economics by Henry Hazlitt

The Failure of the New Economics: An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies by Henry Hazlitt My rating: 4 of 5 stars This detailed critique of John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money is much better written … Continue reading

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes My rating: 1 of 5 stars Bad writing, confused thinking, pernicious policies. I first encountered the name Keynes when reading a Time magazine article in around 1975 about … Continue reading

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what have we got to hide? I’ll tell you

While I can’t say that I’m surprised at the recent revelation of the handing over of millions of telephone-call records to the U.S. government by Verizon (and no doubt other operators), for some reason it has stirred fresh anger in … Continue reading

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Capitalism 3.0 by Peter Barnes

Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons by Peter Barnes My rating: 4 of 5 stars You don’t need to accept all of the author’s left-wing enthusiasms in order to embrace his central idea, which may very well be … Continue reading

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