What are some of your favorite economic articles? As a non-economist, as someone who has not officially trained in the field, I would highly recommend the below articles to other non-economists who would like to sharpen up their economics skill set.
Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem by Milton Friedman and George Stigler. This is […]
Archive for the 'Books' Category
Oct5th2005
Sep23rd2005
The first one is, “Human Action: A Treatise on Economics“, by Ludwig Von Mises. This book is one of the, if not the, most important work of economic or social theory written in the twentieth century, it is written by a world-respected economist with Human Action being his masterpiece. A must read for anybody even […]
Sep19th2005
Rick Santorum, the devout Catholic Republican senator that liberals love to hate, may be defining a new direction for the conservative movement, Reason writes:
Rick Santorum, a second-term Republican senator from Pennsylvania, has written a new book called It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good . The book is worth taking seriously for several […]
Sep16th2005
First is “The Law” by Frederic Bastiat. The description states, Walter Williams an economics professor at George Mason University put it thusly:
I must have been forty years old before reading Frederic Bastiat’s classic The Law. An anonymous person, to whom I shall eternally be in debt, mailed me an unsolicited copy. […]
Aug30th2005
Gary Becker On Affirmative Action
Published by in Books, Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and affirmative action. 13 CommentsOne of my favorite economists, Gary Becker, who in 1992 won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in topics such as discrimination, and the author of the groundbreaking book “The Economics of Discrimination“, writes with regard to affirmative action:
My belief is that affirmative action is bad for any country that aspires […]
Aug22nd2005
“When you come to understand retailing, [you realize] that the industry of retailing has gone through its own evolution. 50 years ago or so, retailing was much more similar in the rich countries to each other than it is today in that it was primarily dominated by general stores of relatively small scale and mom […]
Jul26th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Books, Communism, Economics and General. 0 Comments“It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that ‘good’ men in […]
Jun10th2005
Free To Choose - By Milton Friedman
Published by in Books, Education, General and Vouchers. 1 CommentNOTE: Tomorrow I am heading out to visit some family in Mexico, I will be gone until June 26th, so blogging will be limited, to none at all, from now until than.
In the meantime, I leave you with this commentary by one of my favorite economists, and one of the greatest economists of the […]
May23rd2005
I’ve posted a smaller version of one of my book shelfs before, but I post it again with a couple more books added. I will post my second book shelf some time in the near future.
All of the books come highly recommended, from left to right,
Communism: A History by Harvard University professor Richard […]
Apr28th2005
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals”
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Books and General. 6 CommentsSo goes the title of Thomas Sowell’s new book. It is published this week by Encounter Books, and is already pre-ordered by yours truly. Sowell, in promotion for his new book, recently was on the editorial section of the Wall Street Journal.
He writes:
For most of the history of this country, differences between the […]
Apr27th2005
This question isn’t asked enough. Here is my take on workers’ unions.
Leaving the economic jargon aside for the moment, my dad (and uncle) happens to work for one of the biggest unions in the country. He is a mechanic that works off the port of Long Beach, California, and has been in the union for […]
Apr13th2005
The Relationship Between Economic And Political Freedom
Published by in Books, Capitalism, Communism, Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and LatinAmerica. 0 CommentsOne of the greatest economists of the 20th century, Milton Friedman, wrote this in the beginning of the first chapter of his book Capitalism And Freedom:
“It is widely believed that politics and economics are seperate and largely unconnected; that individual freedom is a political problem and material welfare an economic problem; and that any […]
Apr8th2005
Henry Hazlitt’s 1946 classic, “Economics In One Lesson”, is now available free online in pdf form.
I can’t say enough about how great this book is, I know it was one of the first economic books I’ve read and has had an enormous influence on my life since. Henry Hazlitt has a unique way of […]
Mar28th2005
“The great achievement of capitalism has not been the accumulation of property, it has been the opportunities it has offered to men and women to extend and develop and improve their capacities.” — Milton Friedman in “Capitalism And Freedom”
Mar25th2005
One of the greatest economist of our time, Milton Friedman, in his book Capitalism And Freedom wrote, “If one were to seek deliberately to devise a system of recruiting and paying teachers calculated to repel the imaginative and daring and self-confident and to attract the dull and mediocre and uninspiring, he could hardly do […]
Mar15th2005
Jeffrey Sachs, economist at Harvard University, has an upcoming book, The End Poverty, of which he details a plan to end global “extreme poverty”–which, he says, kills 20,000 people a day–within 20 years.
This is the topic of the cover story in TIME Magazine this week and luckily for us, Catallarchy has some fascinating excerpts, along […]
