frodo82801
January 5th, 2008, 09:44 PM
http://tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=120307A
For people who like to read about economics, 2007 produced a bumper crop of outstanding books. Here are my top recommendations.
Well Written
Professional writers are better than professional economists at authoring books that are fun to read. The book that I most enjoyed, and that I am most likely to re-read for pleasure, is Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism, which looks at the origins of the modern American libertarian movement. Doherty provides both an insightful intellectual history and an entertaining gossip-column story that covers Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Von Mises, and numerous lesser-known but very colorful characters.
Another favorite was Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man. It gives you a feel for the stumbling and groping that Hoover and Roosevelt did during the Great Depression. The conventional story, in which Roosevelt uses superior brains and know-how to overcome the Depression, is a myth that will never die. But Shlaes' account is far more accurate, for anyone willing to face the truth.
For people who like to read about economics, 2007 produced a bumper crop of outstanding books. Here are my top recommendations.
Well Written
Professional writers are better than professional economists at authoring books that are fun to read. The book that I most enjoyed, and that I am most likely to re-read for pleasure, is Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism, which looks at the origins of the modern American libertarian movement. Doherty provides both an insightful intellectual history and an entertaining gossip-column story that covers Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Von Mises, and numerous lesser-known but very colorful characters.
Another favorite was Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man. It gives you a feel for the stumbling and groping that Hoover and Roosevelt did during the Great Depression. The conventional story, in which Roosevelt uses superior brains and know-how to overcome the Depression, is a myth that will never die. But Shlaes' account is far more accurate, for anyone willing to face the truth.