by Greg Stuessel | Oct 31, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Deflation and Liberty by Guido Hülsmann delivers a radical and deeply counterintuitive challenge to the modern economic consensus: deflation—falling prices caused by a contraction in the money supply—is not an economic catastrophe but a moral and economic cleansing...
by Greg Stuessel | Oct 30, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Economics in One Lesson (1946) by Henry Hazlitt remains the clearest, most devastating introduction to sound economics ever written. Hazlitt’s single, timeless lesson: The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate effects of any act or policy,...
by Greg Stuessel | Oct 29, 2025 | The Deep Dive
The Federalist Papers (1787–1788), written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym Publius, present a masterful case for ratifying the U.S. Constitution by diagnosing the fatal flaws of the Articles of Confederation—a “government of...
by Greg Stuessel | Oct 28, 2025 | The Deep Dive
The Anti-Federalist Papers (1787–1788) collect the powerful, often prophetic arguments of those who opposed ratifying the U.S. Constitution, writing under pseudonyms like Brutus, Cato, Federal Farmer, and Sentinel. They warned that the new system was not truly federal...
by Greg Stuessel | Oct 27, 2025 | The Deep Dive
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883) by William Graham Sumner delivers a sharp, uncompromising critique of the growing 19th-century demand that “the rich,” “the successful,” or “society” must solve every social problem for the less fortunate—demands Sumner...
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