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Bryan Cheang argues that industrial policy is authoritarian. Today’s book: Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore’s Post-war Development Today’s essay: “ Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia ” Bryan Cheang’s email: bryan.cheang@kcl.ac.uk

Bart Wilson on how to make economics more human.

Walker Hanlon explains the rise and fall of small government in Britain. Today’s Book: The Laissez-Faire Experiment: Why Britain Embraced and Then Abandoned Small Government, 1800–1914

Michael Huemer explains and challenges progressive claims. Today’s book: Progressive Myths

Bryan Caplan extols the virtues of self help. Today’s book: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better

Sheldon Richman makes the case for human freedom. Today's Book: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other

John Hasnas describes the virtue and the beauty of the common law. Today's Book: Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society

Johan Norberg advocates radical economic freedom. Today's Book: The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg

James Otteson claims that businesses behave honorably by creating mutually beneficial, and mutually voluntary deals. Today's book: Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society

Bryan Caplan explains why housing costs are so high. Today's book: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

Chris Coyne gives a master class in how to energize a population for war. Today's book: How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall

Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance. Today’s book: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat. Today’s book: Can We Know Anything? A Debate by Bryan Frances & Michael Huemer

Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens. Today’s Book: Immigration and Freedom

Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy. Today’s Book: Democracy: A Guided Tour, by Jason Brennan

David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism. Today’s book: The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more. Today’s book: Debunking Determinism: Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, and the Crusade Against Free Will

Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity. Today’s book: You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism

Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should.   Books by Max Borders

James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government. Today’s Book: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education, by James Tooley

Maarten Prak shows how capitalism developed from the bottom up. Today’s Book: Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800, by Maarten Prak & Jan Luiten van Zanden

David Beito exposes the many civil liberties abuses of FDR. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter. Today’s book: The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance by David Beito

Sean Mirski reviews the causes and consequences of early US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter. Today’s book: We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus by Sean Mirski

David Schmidtz discusses the inseparability of successful communities and successful lives. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx Today’s Book: Living Together: Inventing Moral Science David’s university page & author page Discussed and recommended: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle ; The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith ; A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume ; Anthropology from a Pragmatic Po...

Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter. Today’s book: Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America Rachel Ferguson: Twitter , website , Marcus Witcher: Twitter Discussed and Recommended The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes t...