Review: American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation
Quinn’s American Bonds shows that the federal government’s credit policies were important factors behind the particular evolution of securitization and credit markets in the United States.
Quinn’s American Bonds shows that the federal government’s credit policies were important factors behind the particular evolution of securitization and credit markets in the United States.
This book is a rarity: a reasonable treatment of bitcoin from the point of view of Austrian economics.
Brendan Brown reviews "Narrative Economics," which argues that "economic fluctuations are substantially driven by contagion of oversimplified and easily transmitted variants of economic narratives."
David Gordon reviews Prosperity and Liberty, a compilation of essays on Venezuela's wrecked economy and plans for reconstruction, edited by Rafael Acevedo.
George Pickering reviews the Policy Reform Group's Beyond Brexit: A Programme for UK Reform, a series of essays on the Great Recession and Britain's retreat from the global economy's forefront.
Unprofitable Schooling is the go-to book for anyone who wants to understand, in depth, the debates raging about why, and even whether, the academy is in such a sorry state.
Jeffrey Degner reviews Caitlin Zaloom's Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost and finds that while the anthropological approach led to interesting anecdotes, Zaloom's economics fall short.
Published here for the first time is Rothbard's note on the economics of antebellum slavery. Mark Thornton comments on the paper, which criticizes the method of the New Economic History.
Reswitching indicates that the average production period is not necessarily a decreasing function of the interest rate. Granot's generic model of the structure of production shows behavior resembling reswitching.
Addressing a problem that Karl-Friedrich Israel perceived in Salerno's chapter "The 'Income Effect' in Causal-Realist Price Theory," Salerno contends that Israel's resolution implies a denial of the law of demand.