A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

SELF-INTEREST AND GOVERNMENT: INVISIBLE HAND? HESITANT HAND?

Steven G. Medema, The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2009) (From the backcover: "The Hesitant Hand demonstrates how government's economic role continues to be bound up in questions about the effects of self-interest on the greater good.").