July, 2020
How Bad Scholarship Destroys Literary and Economic Analysis
Peter J. Boettke
Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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This book review of How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner finds that the author's indictment of Rand and the alleged effects that her ideas had on generating the 2008 financial crisis exhibits no knowledge of the relevant scientific or historical literature on economic policy.