Books by Jennifer Burns
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
by Jennifer Burns
Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns is a really interesting biography of the brilliant economist who, more than anyone, is credited with turning the idea that markets are good and governments are bad into a reigning ideology in many countries for the last half-century. (For its specific effects in Chile, The Chile Project, also published in 2023, is well worth reading). Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative is, apparently, the first full-length biography of Friedman based on archival research. It's very readable and a great way into the debates which remain with us, even though Friedman himself died in 2006, at the age of 94.
Books by Milton Friedman, recommended on Five Books
Interviews where books by Jennifer Burns were recommended
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Growth: A History and a Reckoning
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The Shortest History of Economics
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrongfnew ec
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Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
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Money Capital: New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society
by Haizhou Huang & Patrick Bolton
New Economics Books
New Economics Books
Lots of new economics books are published each year, catering to a range of readers. Many are aimed at non-economists, trying to explain what the subject is about. Others focus mainly on how economics has been interpreted or used by politicians, with lots of analysis of ‘neoliberalism’ in particular over the past few years. Within academia, economics is normally expressed in equations, with new work published in article form and only occasionally as books.
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Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
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Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them
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Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love
by James Hamilton-Paterson
The best books on Economics and the Environment, recommended by Dieter Helm
The best books on Economics and the Environment, recommended by Dieter Helm
If you want to take an economy that’s wholly dependent on fossil fuels and turn it into a low-carbon one it’s going to be expensive, says economist Dieter Helm—and the sooner we face up to that reality the better. He recommends books to help us think through the relationship between economics and the environment, including one that really shines a spotlight on our own, individual behaviour.
