The Economists' Hour
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Political, Finance, and Politics.
The Economists' Hour is the biography of a revolution: The story of how economists who believed in the power and the glory of free markets transformed the business of government, the conduct of business and, as a result, the patterns of everyday life. In the four decades between 1969 and 2008, these economists played a leading role in reshaping tax...
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