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"The second hottest book in America: Som
Sucks.... This is a fascinating book. One of the things I like
about your book is that it's readable for the people who need to
read it, like millennials. Like leftists. Like Democrats
running for the President of the United States." Mark Levin,
host, The Mark Levin Show, Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, and
#1 best selling author.
"What a captivating idea Som Sucks embraces! A worldwide
tour guide written in plain English by two high-end economists.
An invasion of the world's most highly regulated hot spots where
they can't even ef ciently produce or distribute something as
simple and lovable as . A down-to-earth, almost fable-like
lesson showing som's failures for all the world to see. And
it even has some sidesplitting hilarity thrown in. I knew these
guys were great; but I didn't know this side of them. Buy this
book. Give it to your children and grandchildren, and to anyone
who touts the nonsense--now fashionable in some American
circles--that government power somehow produces more happiness
than personal liberty." (Judge Andrew Napolitano Fox News)
"Professors Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell do a yeomen's job
in proving that som sucks, the apt title for their new
book. They show why there's no stampede into countries like
Venezuela and Cuba and other sot darlings of the U.S.
leftists. What's more, over a couple of drinks, Lawson and Powell
prove that Sweden is not as sotic as portrayed by our
leftists." (Walter E. Williams professor of economics, George
Mason University)
"What is 'som'? And do countries that overindulge in it
wake up with bad hangovers? You bet they do. Robert Lawson and
Benjamin Powell give you the hair-of-the-dog cure. They provide a
dose of political economy knowledge mixed with an understanding
of the bene ts of economic freedom, add a strong dash of humor,
and top it off with a cold . Have a Bob & Ben Eye-Opener and
you'll feel like (and live in a place where you can make) a
million dollars!" (P.J. O'Rourke author of #1 New York Times
bestseller Parliament of Whores)
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About the Author
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Robert Lawson holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider
Endowed Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and is the director
of the William J. O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom
at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of
Business. Dr. Lawson is a founding co-author of the Economic
Freedom of the World (Fraser Institute) series of annual reports,
which presents an economic freedom index for over 160 countries.
The report is cited frequently in the international press
including in The Economist. Lawson has also written or edited two
books and over 90 journal articles, book chapters, and policy
studies. His popular writing has appeared in the Dallas Morning
News, Investors Business Daily, The Columbus Dispatch, and
numerous other outlets.
Benjamin Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute and
a professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business
Administration at Texas Tech University. He is the author or
editor of five books and the author of more than 75 scholarly
articles and policy studies. His research findings have been
reported in more than 100 popular press outlets, including The
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. His popular writing
has appeared in Investor's Business Daily, The Financial Times
(London), the Christian Science Monitor, and many large city
newspapers. He has appeared on numerous radio and television
outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Showtime, CNBC, and he was a
regular guest commentator on FOX Business Network's Stossel
and Freedom Watch.
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