Thomas C. Hoerber

Although Professor Hoerber is an academic, his well-written comparison between planned and free-market economics, respectively, is also a concise and highly-accessible history of modern Western liberal economic thought. In other words, it's a great short intro to how Capitalism has evolved since the 19th century, written in fairly plain language.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money and The Road to Serfdom were both treatises that sought to preserve Capitalism using vastly different means.… (mere)