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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Very interesting little book,
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This review is from: Puritan Economic Experiments (Paperback)
I liked this little book a great deal. It is both interesting and informative, and concise enough that you can read it fairly quickly.
As the title suggests, this book is about Puritan economic experiments, which is an area that has been neglected by historians and economists alike. The Puritans already experimented with many aspects socialism, such as price controls and wage controls. Not surprisingly, they didn't work any better then than they do now (i.e. not at all). Not many people are aware of this aspect of the Puritans. If you're interested in Puritans and their history, or are interested in economics and economic history, you ought to read this book. Even if you're only interested in one of the two topics (i.e. economic history but not the Puritans or vice versa) you still may enjoy this book. Dr. Gary North has been writing about economics and the Bible for years and has a Ph.D. in history and is thus very qualified to write this book, as it touches on his particular areas of expertise, and he has written a very fine book here. This isn't one of his better-known books I don't think, but I think it deserves more recognition than it has gotten.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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If you don't know the Puritans, you don't understand America,
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This review is from: Puritan Economic Experiments (Paperback)
I don't think my title is extreme. If we don't know and understand the Puritans (not the "Pilgrims" -- though frequently confused, they were 2 separate and distinct groups), much of what has happened in the last 300 years in American history won't make sense.
Gary North is a self-described neo-Puritan, and a Ph.D. in economic history. Both of these facts make him a good one to analyze Puritan life and thought, since he's sympathetic with their religious views (arguably the most important driving force in their culture) he gives a good and concise summary of various experiments in economics that the Puritans made, and how those experiments worked or didn't. By economics, North means -- following Ludwig von Mises -- the actions people take with scarce resources. Economics thus understood covers a vastly larger area of life than most of us initially think. Economics can be a fascinating read, given the right author. North is such a man. One doesn't have to agree with him always -- I don't -- to appreciate his insightful and precise analysis. Jim Huffman TheWittenbergDoor.blogspot.com
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