In their inimitable history book, 1066 and All That (“A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember”), first published in 1930, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman note that...

I came to this book expecting not to like it, but with the hope that I would learn something of value about the nature of failure. In fact, it starts very well, with the introductory chapter laying...

Volume 25, Issue 2, February - March 2020, Page 231-233.

The aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse led to a revival of interest in earlier crises. Although the major focus of attention was on the 1929 bank failures that ultimately led to the Great Dep...

The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 5, Page 715-716, August 2012.

In their inimitable history book, 1066 and All That (“A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember”), first published in 1930, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman note that...

These two recent books from Princeton, both, in their way, deal with recent advances in economics—one in the discipline’s methodology, the other in its content. Today, we’re...

Another reviewer of one of Princeton’s “On … ” series has drawn attention to the smallness and slimness of the volume: On Freedom has only just over 116 small pages—a gross area of less than 1.6m2....

Volume 25, Issue 2, February - March 2020, Page 231-233.