The Washington Times recently reviewed Robin L. Einhorn’s American Taxation, American Slavery. From the review by James Srodes: "In American Taxation, American Slavery, Robin Einhorn,
Yesterday, in the business section of the Philadelpia Inquirer, Andrew Cassel wrote about Richard A. Lanham’s “very intriguing new book,” The Economics of Attention: Style
An essay by Laura J. Miller, author of Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. This past March, the Massachusetts press generated a flurry
Publishers Weekly recently praised Richard A. Lanham’s The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. From the review: "Lanham’s points are
Today, Salon.com features Richard Parker’s substantive appreciation of the late John Kenneth Galbraith. Parker emphasizes that Galbraith was a political economist—a social scientist concerned above
Amartya Sen said the influence of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Affluent Society is so pervasive as to be taken for granted: “It’s like reading
Economics, as you may remember from ECON 101, is about the allocation of scare resources. There is an irony, therefore, to the overused phrase information
When you think of the founding fathers, you think of men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin—exceptional minds and matchless statesmen who led
In a time when the arrival of yet another Starbucks, Best Buy, or Borders to a neighborhood is viewed as routine, the presence of the
Library Journal recently reviewed Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen’s Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America. From the review: "The early financial