There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths Hardcover – November 9, 2021 by David L. Bahnsen

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Author: Bahnsen David L.

Package Dimensions: 14x210x788

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 09-11-2021

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The best way to defend the cause of human flourishing against this current onslaught of dangerous economic thinking is to relearn time-tested economic truths.

The verdict is in: Free enterprise has lifted billions of people out of abject poverty all over the world and provided a higher quality of life than has ever been thought possible. But a growing case is forming in public opinion against free markets, and for a significantly larger command & control management of the economy. Whether you call it socialism or progressive leftism, more and more people are turning away from the forces of freedom and social cooperation that made the last two hundred years of prosperity possible, and embracing a system that deprives human beings of their dignity, impoverishing whole societies both financially and spiritually.

What David Bahnsen does here is pull from the masters—the great economic voices of the past and the present—to remind readers of the basic economic truths that must serve as our foundation in understanding the challenges of today. In 250 vital points, he combines pearls of wisdom from economic legends with his own careful commentary to provide readers the perspective, information, and reaffirmation they need in order to see economics for what it is. It will empower you and equip you with the truth—250 truths—that are crucially needed to keep the lights on in civilization and advance the cause of human flourishing.

Review

“David Bahnsen is a vital voice in a time of complete economic chaos. Let him guide you through the basic truths of economics, and come out smarter on the other side!” — Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire

“Economics is not merely a science of managing scarcity through mathematical formulas, but a study of human flourishing, and the navigation of its short and long term consequences. As David Bahnsen brilliantly shows,
There’s No Free Lunch, but there is a banquet of creativity.” — Andrew C. McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author and National Review contributing editor

“In his new wise and bracing new book, David Bahnsen says the promotion of human dignity and human flourishing are the truest and highest purposes of economic inquiry. This is a message everyone—right, left and center—needs to hear.” — John Podhoretz, Commentary

“One of the reasons we have such division today on such key issues is a lack of agreement on basic economic principles.  David’s book does a lot of things, but at the top of the list is set some foundational principles in place that will guide the discussion well.  A needed book!” — Anthony Scaramucci, Skybridge Capital, Founder and CEO

“It’s like textbook, only fast-paced, easily accessible and consistently interesting. It also has one of the best collections of quotes from champions of liberty that I’ve ever seen in a book of this size, from authors both old and new. But the thing I love most about this book is that it is celebratory. It’s more a party than a party-line. Bahnsen loves the idea of human flourishing and understands that sound economics is not mainly about demolishing the errors of socialism, but instead about unleashing human-kind to improve (with demolishing socialism as a means to that end). This book represents a mood which one finds in just a few of our current authors, such as Kudlow, Gilder and McCloskey, a mood of ebullience. All the main topics are here: division of labor, the knowledge problem, human action, but vivid and pulsing with life. Bahnsen sets exactly the right tone for our economic renewal. Will it change any minds? I think it can. At least in my case it changed my mind about one thing, my (former) belief that
Crisis of Responsibility is Bahnsen’s most important book.” — Jerry Bowyer, Townhall Financial, Editor; Bowyer Research, President

“There are very few people who understand free market economics but who also spend most of their time actually working in the real economy. David Bahnsen is one of those very  rar