Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America by Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane. (Simon and Schuster 2013), 296 pages.
One of the perennial questions historians address is why empires fell. In his 1987 bestseller, ...
Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, 2012), 311 pages.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty / is worth a whole eternity in ...
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Volume 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics, Jacques de Guenin, general editor, and Jane Willems and Michael Willems, translators (Liberty Fund 2011); 600 pages.
Of all the ...
Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream by R. Christopher Whalen (Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2010); 393 pages.
It is obvious by now that the massive U.S. debt cannot be sustained. Last year’s downgrading by Standard and ...
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
by Richard H, Immerman. (Princeton University Press; 237 pages); $24.95.
There are many reasons to be angry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but perhaps ...
