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'The Machine Age' by Robert Skidelsky
Review by Andrei Rogobete
Andrei Rogobete comments on a sweeping and erudite critique of modern technological society, challenging in its breadth and perhaps unduly negative in its assessment of the impact of technology.
'The Third Pillar' by Raghuram Rajan
Review by Diana Thomas
Diana W. Thomas reviews a book that diagnoses the decline of community but falls short in its proposed cure and framework for understanding community action.
'The Wealth of a Nation' by Geoffrey Hodgson
Review by Gordon Bannerman
Gordon Bannerman reviews an interdisciplinary assessment of the fundamental importance of legal and financial institutions in the development of capitalism in England between 1300 and 1820.
'Ethics for Capitalists' by Joseph Heath
Review by Richard Godden
Richard Godden reviews a book that provides much to think about in its argument that business ethics must be assessed in the context of our existing economic system – the market economy.
'Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World' by Dani Rodrik
Review by Anne R. Bradley
Anne R. Bradley agrees with the major political and economic challenges for the 21st century identified in Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, but suggests that the proposed solutions invite technocracy, autocracy and other unintended consequences.
‘Austrian Economics: An Introduction’ by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall
Review by Caleb S. Fuller
Caleb S. Fuller reviews an elegant introduction to Austrian economics with a clarity of prose that does credit to the important ideas it contains.
'The Last Human Job' by Allison Pugh
Review by Stephanie MacGillivray
Stephanie MacGillivray reviews an argument for the importance of connective labour and the centrality to work of human relations at a time of increasing depersonalisation.
'Business Ethics for Better Behavior' by Jason Brennan et al.
Review by Billy Christmas
Billy Christmas comments on a refreshing ethics textbook that offers an appreciative treatment of business and market institutions, and appears to have a genuine interest in helping people to be more ethical.
'The Triumph of Economic Freedom' by Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux
Review by Andrew Lilico
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.
Merchant Saint by Donald Prudlo and Paul J. Voss
Review by Jan Bentz
Jan Bentz reviews a biography of the first layman canonised by the Church, which offers a striking meditation on whether economic life can itself be a genuine sphere of Christian virtue.