Leslie Thatcher reviewed Dean Baker’s False Profits for Truthout yesterday. “False Profits,” she concludes, “combines impeccable scholarship – assembling an array of relevant facts and data totally accessible to non-economists – with Baker’s acerbic, but unforced, wit and verve.”

It’s gratifying to see Dean’s work recognized this way. He does have a rare ability to combine expertise with appropriate moral outrage. Given the suffering Wall Street’s recklessness and DC’s deregulatory mania has wrought, one or the other doesn’t do this topic justice.