Books – Page 6 – Steve Baker

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The Spectator asks me about books

by Steve Baker 29 September 2011 in Politics 1 comment

Welcome to the inaugural post of Bookbenchers where we ask backbench MPs what they read when they’re not white paper-pushing. Kicking things off is Steve Baker, former engineer officer in the RAF and currently MP for Wycombe – when he isn’t helping run the educational charity The Cobden Centre, or […]

Operation Twisted Logic – Detlev Schlichter

by Steve Baker 27 September 2011 in Politics, Business Comments are Disabled

Via Operation Twisted Logic, an article by Detlev Schlichter, author of Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown: … Like all state bureaucracies, the Fed is in fact struggling with problems that are predominantly of its own making. The Fed is the reason we are in […]

The last word of wisdom?

by Steve Baker 22 August 2011 in Politics Comments are Disabled

No man deserves his freedom or his lifeWho does not daily win them anew. From Goethe’s Faust, quoted in Mises’ Liberalism – The Classical Tradition as “the last word of wisdom”. It appears in the discussion of anti-liberalism’s roots in resentment and neurosis.

New book finds green taxes are excessive by over £500 a family | Home | The TaxPayers’ Alliance

by Steve Baker 17 August 2011 in Politics, Natural world Comments are Disabled

Something to look forward to – a new book on carbon taxes published tomorrow: The biggest threat to taxpayers right now is expensive new green taxes and subsidies. In the first ever mainstream book on this subject – published Thursday 18 August – TaxPayers’ Alliance Director Matthew Sinclair has exposed […]

The foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves

by Steve Baker 4 August 2011 in Christianity, Politics Comments are Disabled

After dashing through C S Lewis’ brilliant if somewhat esoteric 1930s sci-fi/fantasy known as The Cosmic Trilogy, I picked up Jung’s even more esoteric Answer to Job. After all that, it seemed time to return to Mere Christianity, which is so titled because it explains those doctrines which are generally […]

Robust Political Economy and Realistic Idealism « Pileus

by Steve Baker 15 April 2011 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Via Robust Political Economy and Realistic Idealism « Pileus: What criterion should we use to evaluate political theories and the institutions they advocate? In my book Robust Political Economy, I argue that it is the criterion of ‘robustness’. Institutions that meet this criterion are those best placed to cope with fundamental […]

The Rise and Decline of the State

by Steve Baker 13 April 2011 in Politics 2 comments

Brought forward. I just had cause to share this with a constituent in relation to the Kafkaesque nightmare they face. David Cameron has said that the era of big government has run its course. The foreword to our manifesto sets out the rotten state of Britain (see also Butler) and […]

Cobden Centre Radio » Detlev Schlichter

by Steve Baker 12 April 2011 in Politics Comments are Disabled

As a derivatives trader for 19 years, Detlev Schlichter resigned his position as a senior bond portfolio manager in 2009 to work full-time on this book, about fiat monetary systems and financial crises. He therefore knows of what he speaks. In this extensive and detailed interview, he explores with Brian […]

Embrace Default! » The Cobden Centre

by Steve Baker 7 April 2011 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Via Embrace Default! » The Cobden Centre: There is a myth circulating, and I am not sure whether it has its origin in sloppy thinking or devious manipulation. It is this: sovereign default in the euro-area is the biggest threat to the euro’s survival. Really? Why? The euro is a form […]