Books: Economics

Occasionally a book will appear on the scene that embodies the written equivalent of jewels among feces.  This book represents such an example.  I found it both enlightening and infuriating at the same time.  I only read it back in late 1999 because I received it at no charge as a bonus "best seller" for joining a book club. ... (See the whole review)

From the aptly named Galt Press comes the Complete Guide to Asset Protection Strategies by Mark Warda, Attorney at Law.  In modern America, no one remains safe from frivolous lawsuits.  A person's entire life savings can vanish overnight thanks to a tort system that rewards envy and careless living.  The American legal system authorizes tort lawyer... (See the whole review)

The late millionaire Charles Givens gained fame, fortune and notoriety as the leading American financial advice author in the 1990s.  His first book, Wealth without Risk, remained for many weeks on the bestseller list.  His follow-up book, Financial Self-Defense, also became a bestseller.  He later revised and updated his first book and published i... (See the whole review)

Florida Objectivist John White tackles the difficult situation in which many who face middle age find themselves: Broke, in debt and facing retirement age with no savings.  With wit and style, the author outlines a step-by-step plan for assessing the reader's current condition and helping the reader to reach a place of financial solvency in the sho... (See the whole review)

“Were there a bureaucrat controlling any other industry (e.g., farming, fishing, furniture making) who did for it what Alan Greenspan does for monetary policy, we would have no difficulty in labeling him as an economic czar, a socialist of the worst stripe. We would tell him to go back, not to Russia, or East Germany, but to Cuba o... (See the whole review)

In this 75 page essay Murray Rothbard outlines his proposal for replacing the existing dollar with the equivalent of a 100 percent gold backed currency. In fact, he goes as far as to advocate, "the return to gold by every nation, at 100 percent of its particular currency, and the subsequent blending of all these international currencies into one go... (See the whole review)

Why have Jews risen to the top of the business and professional world in numbers staggeringly out of proportion to their percentage of the American population? Steven Silbiger has the answer. Combining the huge appeal of the bestsellers The Millionaire Next Door and The Gifts of the Jews, The Jewish Phenomenon sets forth the seven principles that f... (See the whole review)

In this book, Bastiat defends free markets by crushing the arguments for intervention.  He goes through one economic fallacy after another, demolishing them with logic and especially wit.  Bastiat explains his ideas through stories and examples, always showing the absurdity of these bad ideas.  The style is funny and light-hearted, and he makes the... (See the whole review)

This is the magnum opus of Ludwig von Mises. Being one of the best books on economics ever written, its philosophical content is often ignored. This is applied philosophy at its best, and a careful analysis will show a variety of ideas useful outside of this particular field.

Literally encyclopedic -- almost the length of a volume of the Britannica in terms both of number of pages and content per page --" Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics" is regarded by some as philosophically and intellectually the strongest and most comprehensive book in the defense of laissez-faire capitalism that can be found anywhere in the worl... (See the whole review)

This book annihilates the false notion that natural resources are limited and diminishing. In fact, the market price of every raw material has steadily decreased over the years. Why? Because people are the true ultimate resource. On average, each person produces more than he consumes. The more people, the more abundant the production and the cheape... (See the whole review)

Basic Economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience, but also an enjoyable one. This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also ... (See the whole review)