Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics

March 9, 2026 Book Review

‘Company Men’ by Sean Thomas Delehanty

Review by Richard Langlois

Richard Langlois reviews an intellectual history of the shareholder-value idea, which, though well written, throws more shade than light on the debate between shareholder and stakeholder-value understandings of companies...

March 3, 2026 Book Review

‘The Invention of Infinite Growth’ by Christopher Jones

Review by Andrew Packman

As a volume that explores the history of economic thought The Invention of Infinite Growth is strong, but Andrew Packman suggests that it adds little to debates over how to approach the tension between growth and the need to conserve the natural world...

February 23, 2026 Book Review

‘On Liberalism’ by Cass Sunstein

Review by Jan Bentz

Jan Bentz reviews what may be the most lucid and unembarrassed defense of liberalism in recent memory, expressing a quiet faith that humanity is improvable, that reason can temper rage, and that freedom, properly tended, can still burn bright—without burning down the house...