Book Review of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian & the myth of socialist Sweden.
Channel: Roman's Book Report
Date: 2011-09-18

Book Review of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka.

Good book, bad economics

In one of the passages I read vilified 19th century robber barons, as if, of all the things in the world, they are what we should fear most. It is outrageous that as we emerge from 20th century which saw well over 100 million murdered by their own governments, we are still be asked to fear 19th century robber barons who committed crimes like lowering the cost of kerosene by 90% so that poor people didn't have to live in darkness after the sun went down.

Some footnotes:

Interventionism by George Reisman
http://mises.org/media/4368

The Sweden Myth Stefan Karlsson
http://mises.org/daily/2259

Swedish Conservatives Bucked the Recession by Lowering Taxes -- and Won Re-Election
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/6...

Stagnating Socialist Sweden by Per Bylund
http://mises.org/daily/4936

Free Banking in Sweden (pdf) by Erik Lakomaa
http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qj...

Poorer Than you Think by William L. Anderson
http://mises.org/daily/955

The not so Wild Wild West
http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1...



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