Political Economy

Reviewed by: 

“offers a more incisive and balanced examination of this elected office without the undue influence of the personalities of its recent occupants.”

Reviewed by: 

“Ways and Means represents nonfiction writing at its best, using an easy prose to enlighten with thought provoking, sometimes controversial, ideas from the very beginning.”

Reviewed by: 

Bigger is not better, at least when it comes to corporate power and economic concentration. This is the thesis of Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar whose book on antitrust law is published in concert

Reviewed by: 

Zakaria’s grasp of the big picture and his ability to channel such a wide narrative in a very readable format should be commended.”

Reviewed by: 

Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it.

Reviewed by: 

Dark commerce—smuggling, counterfeiting, pirating, fencing—is one of humanity’s oldest professions, noted and condemned by leaders of Mesopotamian empires, Egyptian scribes, and Greek philosophers.

Reviewed by: 

“Collier endorses capitalism for the long haul because it ‘has the potential to lift us all to unprecedented prosperity.’ However, he writes that ‘capitalist societies must be ethical as we

Reviewed by: 

“A copy of Peter Phillips’ Giants: The Global Power Elite should be in everyone’s book case, like a good dictionary or atlas.” 

Reviewed by: 

“From ancient Greece to the modern globalized economy, Kurz distills the essence of various schools of thought and the personalities who made them.”

Reviewed by: 

Life is paradox: As Aesop noted, dogs enjoy greater security than wolves, but lack freedom. Wolves have more freedom than dogs but may be eaten by even stronger denizens of the wild.

Reviewed by: 

“Discrimination and Disparities demonstrates once again that Sowell is one of America’s and the world’s great public intellectuals.”

Reviewed by: 

In a recent interview, Professor Allan Lichtman—who has successfully predicted the outcome of presidential elections since 1982—said America’s founding fathers “believed that impeachment was a crit

Reviewed by: 

Human civilization is constantly changing, argues David Smick in The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone, a manifesto for a new set of policies d

Reviewed by: 

The 2016 presidential campaign cycle has proven to be the most unpredictable and volatile in modern history.

Reviewed by: 

“. . . a useful, timely, relevant contribution.”

Author(s):
Reviewed by: 

“The contributors to this volume are all very interesting people, but one has a sneaking suspicion that they might have taken way too much LSD at some point in their carbon footprints.”

Reviewed by: 

The pillars of commerce—trade and finance—now seem like lost relics in an archaeological dig.

Reviewed by: 

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail left a clear impression that Sorkin has to a great extent merely repeated the words of some of the government and business titans who played major role