The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth EconomyBy Jeff Rubin(Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages pages, $27) In February 2010, this august journal published some musings of mine titled “The Great Recession of 2011–2012,” with a subhead, “And that’s only the beginning…
I MISS THE LATE HENRY SIMMONS, the legendary Newsweek reporter who covered the early NASA space flights and the Washington economics beat back in the days when that magazine produced important information and not pop-twitter. Henry kept the betting book…
In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article “The Aims of the Criminal Law” Edited by Timothy Lynch (Cato Institute, 251 pages, $19.95) At the start of the one unsatisfactory year I labored at Duke Law School…
It is commonplace today to believe we should refer to the benign innovations of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression in order to understand what is driving President Obama’s team of economic strategists. But a look back to that…
As I mark my fiftieth year in the craft of journalism may I be excused for letting loose a small raspberry at the flood of handwringing going on over The Decline of the American Daily Newspaper. What do you expect…
This review appeared in the September 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.
This review appeared in the February 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Income and Wealth by Alan Reynolds (Greenwood Press, 231 pages, $55) So go out and buy this book. Read…