Welcome to the inaugural post of Bookbenchers where we ask backbench MPs what they read when they’re not white paper-pushing.
Kicking things off is Steve Baker, former engineer officer in the RAF and currently MP for Wycombe – when he isn’t helping run the educational charity The Cobden Centre, or skydiving.
What book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
What book would you read to your children?
I don’t have children but I have a photo of me reading Jesus Huerta de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles to my godchildren.
What literary character would you most like to be?
Captain Jack Aubrey, of the Aubrey-Maturin series. I’d rather be sailing. Or skydiving.
What book do you think best sums up ‘now’?
Detlev Schlichter’s Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and
the Coming Monetary Breakdown.
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