Marshall Steinbaum š„ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Utah. @jainfamilyinst Senior Fellow, Higher Education Finance. Mostly on Bluesky

Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism
Paul Sabin
This is a good review of ā¦@epoppppā©ās book by ā¦@LDHerrineā©, usefully paired with āPublic Citizensā by Sabin. I largely agree with where Luke came down: Berman gives the neoclassical economists too much credit by taking them at their word. https://t.co/Xubjo9RybC
Hardcover, 2021
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Richard White
@B0BHitt @RrjohnR .@TJStiles_Author's "The Last Tycoon" is a great and highly informed popular account of 19th C anti-monopolism. Covering a slightly later period, Richard White's Railroaded is, among other things, a useful excavation of anti-railroad anti-monopolism.
Paperback, 2012
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs
Josh Hawley
@sanjuktampaul @sandeepvaheesan Inspiring! Is that a quote from the anti-monopolist Josh Hawley's book Manhood?
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Thomas C. Leonard
@DavidAstinWalsh Thomas Leonard, the author of Illiberal Reformers, is affiliated with that program and the book reflects their worldview: Lochnerism is egalitarian; anti-Lochner progressivism is secretly reactionary eugenicism.
Paperback, 2017
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Making of the English Working Class
E. P. Thompson
@jcbecker_econ jk I read *all about* Burke in "The Making of the English Working Class" by Thompson, and I have news for you: he sounds like a moron.
Paperback, 1966
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage
āOne pervert brings other perverts into an agency. They move from position to position and advance them, usually in the interest of the romance of the moment.ā āSenate testimony by CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter, quoted by Beverly Gage in āG-Manā
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories
Nathan Englander
@haroldfeld Nathan Englander's short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a fantastic depiction of this, if you haven't read it.
Paperback, 2013
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw
Between John Fetterman and me listening to the audiobook of David Nasawās biography of Andrew Carnegie, Braddock, PA is really having a moment. cc @DougJBalloon
Paperback, 2007
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
I say this very advisedly: the FedSoc-generated freakout at Stanford Law is redolent of the Nazi provocations Stefan Zweig writes about in The World of Yesterday, and they had exactly the same resounding success.
Paperback, 2013
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
Just read āTrustā by Hernan Diaz, and this sounds exactly the same as the financierās bombastic self-serving narrative of the Great Depression (no coincidence Iām sure that insofar as thereās any substance itās cribbed from Friedman and Schwartz) https://t.co/UHwVCrKiTO
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book