We the People

BOOK REVIEW We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution By Forrest McDonald 2017 About the Author Forrest McDonald was Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He was the Sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities in 1987 and was awarded the Ingersoll Prize in 1990. Dr. McDonald was the author … Continue reading We the People

Economics in One Lesson

BOOK REVIEW Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics By Henry Hazlitt  1978 edition (first edition 1946) About the Author Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The … Continue reading Economics in One Lesson

Founding Finance

BOOK REVIEW Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation  By William Hogeland  2012 Website: williamhogeland.wordpress.com About the Author William Hogeland is also the author of the Wild Early Republic trilogy: "The Whiskey Rebellion" (2006), "Declaration" (2010), and "Autumn of the Black Snake" (2017). Hogeland has also written  for "The Atlantic," … Continue reading Founding Finance