tomgpalmer.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I’ve been quite busy for the past weeks, but I had a slow-ish day today, so I clarified my remarks about why Johan Norberg’s book Financial Fiasco is a good read, and much better than Meltdown by Tom Woods. *”With the YouTubes to prove it!”
tomgpalmer.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Among the many books I read during my recent travels, I strongly recommend Johan Norberg’s truly excellent diagnosis of (and prescriptions for) the financial crisis: Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis. It’s far better than the other works I’ve read, not only because Norberg is a [...]...
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... globalization by one of today’s leading free-trade economists. •In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2003) A former left-anarchist debunks the claims of the anti-globalization movement. • Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002) An extensive report on globalization’s...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The distinguished Harvard economist Richard N. Cooper, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, praises Johan Norberg’s Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis in Foreign Affairs: The economic crisis of 2008-9 will no doubt spawn dozens of books. Here are two good early ones…. Norberg,...
EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There is a major street brawl going on between Tom Palmer and some members of the Austrian school of economics.The brawl started when out of the blue, in a review of a Johan Norberg book about the financial crisis, Palmer threw this in:...Norberg is a smart guy, a meticulous researcher, and a good writer, but because it’s an exercise in economic analysis and financial journalism,...
The Austrian Economists (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Steve Horwitz Since we haven't had a good post on intra-Austrian issues in awhile, I thought I'd weigh in on the quickly escalating Battle of the Toms taking place out in the libertarian blogosphere. Said battle began yesterday when Tom Palmer of Cato and Atlas posted a review of Johan Norberg's new book Financial Fiasco . In that review, Tom veered off the road a bit to take a shot at...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
... suggests a worrying case of amnesia following the bursting of the housing bubble. (emphasis added) Johan Norberg warned about the dangers of repeating the very mistakes that created the bubble and bust in the first place in Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis (available in hardcover, e-book, or Kindle).
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
A loose monetary policy that created lots of cheap money, government interventions into the housing market, and the hubris of Wall Street firms deemed "too big to fail" combined to send the world economy into a tailspin, argues Swedish author Johan Norberg.
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... causes, take a look at this paper by Lawrence H. White or get the new book Financial Fiasco by Johan Norberg, which Amity Shlaes called “a masterwork in miniature.” Available in hardcover or immediately as an e-book . Or on Kindle ! And for a warning about the dangers lurking in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, see this 2004 paper by Lawrence J. White.
