The Right Data, edited by Edwin S. Rubenstein (National Review Books, 409 pp., $17.95)
A MEDIA-DRIVEN economic myth can be more deadly, and harder to kill, than a werewolf. But this compendium, edited by NR’s economics columnist, shoots a silver bullet through many a beast. Norman Ture vindicates tax cuts, June O’Neill exposes the “income-inequality” myth, and Glenn Yago defends the market for corporate control (takeovers, junk bonds, etc.). Despite Jack Kemp’s introduction, Carl Horowitz blasts Mr. Kemp’s HUD record, e.g., adding 250,000 households to the welfare rolls. Ed Rubenstein is a numbers maven who can write, and as a bonus, his book includes one hundred pages of raw data that liberals don’t want you to know about. And if some of this
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