“Crisis of Abundance” Makes Executives’ Reading List

The leadership of the National Chamber Foundation (the educational arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) recently recommended to its board of directors a list of 10 “Books that Drive the Debate.” Among the recommended titles was Crisis of Abundance, a Cato Institute book by adjunct scholar Arnold Kling and the only health policy book to make the list. 


The foundation’s board is a bipartisan group of influential figures from the business, political, and policy spheres. The NCF also plans to recommend the 10 titles to all Chamber of Commerce members.


The complete list is pasted below. NCF chairman Bill Little told me today that Crisis of Abundance will be the first book they send out to their board members.

“Books that Drive the Debate”
NCF’s Top 10 Reading Selections

1. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moises Naim
2. Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz
3. The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter Huber and Mark Mills
4. In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray
5. Our Brave New World by Charles Gave, Anatole Kaletsky, and Louis‐​Vincent Gave
6. The Sarbanes‐​Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned; How to Fix It by Henry N. Butler
7. An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths by Glenn Reynolds
8. The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor
9. Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care by Arnold Kling
10. Education Myths What Special‐​Interest Groups Want You To Believe About Our Schools – And Why It Isn’t So by Jay P. Greene

(Another Cato connection: in March, the Cato Institute held a book forum for Glenn Reynolds’ An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths.)


The leadership of the NCF evidently agreed with Marginal Revolution publisher Tyler Cowen that Crisis of Abundance “is one of the most important books written on health care.”