British journalist
Michael Barone‘s latest column makes clear that he’s not particularly convinced by the arguments Thomas Piketty has used to woo American leftists. There is general agreement that Piketty has compiled…
Like other recent reviewers, Clive Crook of Bloomberg View notes serious problems with a new book that’s won lavish praise from the left: Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.…
Count Bloomberg columnist Clive Crook among those who consider Republicans’ position in the recent federal government standoff to be an example of “insane recklessness” from people “unfit to hold public…
While President Obama has sounded clear populist themes with his “tax the rich” rhetoric, Clive Crook describes in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek why the Left is having a hard time…
Live Blog Clive Crook in this morning's Financial Times forgets how we got to this point in state and federal budgets. The federal stimulus was mostly absorbed in offsetting the…
As Clive Crook pointed out in the Atlantic back in December, homeownership can hurt the labor market and the economy. The New York Times has some stories of how: “The…
Clive Crook explains it well in The Atlantic this month, but the best place for most people to see his explanation is on The Economist’s blog.
That’s the conclusion Clive Crook reaches in this this article in The Atlantic. Instrumental in his reaching that conclusion is the work of James Tooley, who has discovered that in…
Clive Crook at The Atlantic also questions (subscription required) the value of college.
The New Republic‘s editors [registration required] say it is time for big ideas from liberals, and by golly they’re going to provide those big ideas. First up, universal health care…
Clive Crook questions the reflexive dislike of capitalism in America. He recounts the story of the Soviet official who did not believe vendors at a London market set prices throughout…