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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Utah. @jainfamilyinst Senior Fellow, Higher Education Finance. Mostly on Bluesky

11 books
Book Cover for: Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism, Paul Sabin

Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

Paul Sabin
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

This is a good review of ⁦@epopppp⁩’s book by ⁦@LDHerrine⁩, usefully paired with ā€œPublic 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
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Book Cover for: Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Richard White

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Richard White
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

@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

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, Josh Hawley

Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs

Josh Hawley
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

@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
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Book Cover for: The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class

E. P. Thompson
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

@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

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Book Cover for: G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, Beverly Gage

G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

ā€œOne 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€ —Senate testimony by CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter, quoted by Beverly Gage in ā€œG-Manā€

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank: Stories, Nathan Englander

What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank: Stories

Nathan Englander
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

@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

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Book Cover for: Andrew Carnegie, David Nasaw

Andrew Carnegie

David Nasaw
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

Between John Fetterman and me listening to the audiobook of David Nasaw’s biography of Andrew Carnegie, Braddock, PA is really having a moment. cc @DougJBalloon

Paperback, 2007

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Book Cover for: Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University, Richard White

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Richard White
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

Greatly enjoying Richard White’s new book ā€œWho Killed Jane Stanford?ā€ for its resonance with today’s gerontocracy, especially in universities, and its inevitable correspondence with plutocracy.

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig

The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

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

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Book Cover for: Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Hernan Diaz

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„Marshall Steinbaum šŸ”„

Just read ā€œTrustā€ by Hernan Diaz, and this sounds exactly the same as the financier’s bombastic self-serving narrative of the Great Depression (no coincidence I’m sure that insofar as there’s any substance it’s cribbed from Friedman and Schwartz) https://t.co/UHwVCrKiTO

Paperback, 2023

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