David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum's The Economists' Hour. As a critique of free-market economics, the book fails, relying on appeals to competing values and misattributing government failures to the market.
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Book Review: The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Published on August 26, 2025
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