Book Reviews by Jason Jewell
University Bookman, 2020
A review of Tremper Longman's "The Bible and the Ballot."
Christian Libertarian Review, 2018
Review of Deirdre McCloskey's "Bourgeois Dignity."
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2018
Review of David and Linda Beitos' "T.R.M. Howard."
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2015
Review of Chris Coyne's "Doing Bad by Doing Good."
University Bookman, 2019
Review of Samuel Gregg's "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civiliziation."
University Bookman, 2017
Review of Allen Mendenhall's "Of Bees and Boys: Lines from a Southern Lawyer."
History: Reviews of New Books, 2017
Review of Neuheiser's "Crown, Church, and Constitution."
History: Reviews of New Books, 2019
Review of Stephen Alford's 2017 book "London's Triumph."
Papers by Jason Jewell
History: Reviews of New Books, Jul 20, 2017
The Journal of Markets and Morality, Sep 22, 2020
Scholarship on Russell Kirk (1918-1994) tends to ignore or underemphasize his writings on economi... more Scholarship on Russell Kirk (1918-1994) tends to ignore or underemphasize his writings on economics, and scholars who have written about this area of his thought have insufficiently stressed his support for the free market. This article contends that Kirk became more supportive of the free market over the course of his career as he read deeper into the field and wrote more on the subject. It analyzes key passages from his textbook Economics: Work and Prosperity (1989) and other late works and compares them with writings from earlier in his career to show a market-friendly evolution in his thought on topics such as trade, government intervention in the economy, and overpopulation.
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Apr 20, 2009
Europe, HU 2310: Western Cultural Heritage III, Aug 19, 2012
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
History: Reviews of New Books, 2017
across diverse moments, spaces, and subjects. Despite the importance of solidarity to East German... more across diverse moments, spaces, and subjects. Despite the importance of solidarity to East German self-understandings, such encounters remained ambivalent precisely because they challenged such understandings; as Torner and Lenshyn put it, “The GDR was a nation that, despite its myth of solidarity, had trouble accounting for difference” (244). Anyone interested in learning how East Germans understood the world and itself through the lens of the world will profit greatly from reading this collection.
Comparative Political Economy: Comparative Capitalism eJournal, 2019
Scholarship on Russell Kirk (1918–1994) tends to ignore or underemphasize his writings on economi... more Scholarship on Russell Kirk (1918–1994) tends to ignore or underemphasize his writings on economics, and scholars who have written about this area of his thought have insufficiently stressed his support for the free market. This article contends that Kirk became more supportive of the free market over the course of his career as he read deeper into the field and wrote more on the subject. It analyzes key passages from his textbook Economics: Work and Prosperity (1989) and other late works and compares them with writings from earlier in his career to show a market-friendly evolution in his thought on topics such as trade, government intervention in the economy, and overpopulation. Jason E. Jewell, "The Extent of Russell Kirk’s Support for the Free Market," Journal of Markets & Morality 23, no. 1 (2020): 61-75.
History: Reviews of New Books, 2021
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