Book Reviews
Information glut is rampant. Here's our effort to filter your local bookstore.
- Expecting the Unexpecting Michael M. Rosen 03/25/2013
- Jonathan Last’s recent book gives an incisive analysis of the plummeting U.S. birth rate's key economic effects.
- Was Mancur Olson Wrong? Jonathan Rauch 02/15/2013
- The great economist turned political science on its head. But a new book says Olson was off base.
- The Constitution, in Text and Spirit Michael M. Rosen 01/11/2013
- Akhil Reed Amar seeks to establish a new approach to jurisprudence.
- How China Became Capitalist Nick Schulz 11/14/2012
- Nobel Prize–winning economist Ronald Coase and Professor Ning Wang on the transformation of the Chinese economy.
- The Tragic Demise of Fannie Mae Alex J. Pollock 10/22/2012
- A new book offers an instructive lesson on the unhappy surprises caused by the government’s attempts to manipulate the housing market.
- On the Ballot in November: Marijuana Nick Schulz 10/17/2012
- Several states are considering legalizing marijuana. Here are some things you should know.
- Combatting Corruption Roger Bate 10/12/2012
- Corruption threatens freedom and economic growth around the world.
- Is the Nation of Immigrants Becoming a Nation of Emigrants? Nick Schulz 10/03/2012
- Vivek Wadhwa on the immigrant exodus that threatens the United States.
- Love, Happiness, and Other Things Money Can’t (Or At Least Shouldn’t) Buy Michael M. Rosen 06/22/2012
- Are there limits to markets?
- Innovation, Risk, and the ‘Most Hated Book of the Year’ Nick Schulz 05/23/2012
- Edward Conard argues that in the wake of the commercialization of the Internet, the structure of our unrealized investment opportunities has changed dramatically.