Economists (including Nobel Prize winners), scholars, presidential advisors, and financial columnists address issues in their field in essays that are frequently interesting and/or instructive, but sorely lacking in balance, being prone to paeans about capitalism and assaults on Marxism, socialism, and any and all critiques of, or alternatives to, unregulated free markets. Not surprising from the likes of Murray Rothbard, but lamentable coming from such as Robert Heilbroner. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.