Andrew Lilico reviews The Triumph of Economic Freedom by Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux, which sets out to debunk seven widely held myths about the record of American capitalism.
The Myth of American Inequality contains complex statistics and involved reasoning but it will encourage readers to think about the inequality (or otherwise) of the American economy differently.
In Limitarianism, Ingrid Robeyns asks whether a person can be too rich and whether extreme wealth has negative consequences, but her arguments for limiting wealth are unconvincing.
In Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Kate Raworth seeks to overthrow and replace economics as we have known it, but economics is not in crisis and doesn’t need reinventing.
