Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2014) Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America Bernard Harris, Ed. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012, 270 pp. In Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America , editor Bernard Harris has assembled ten studies on the history of mutual-aid societies. In his introduction, he proffers Marcel van der Linden’s definition
Volume 12, Number 4 (2009) This paper tracks the economic and political developments in the state of Kentucky that led up to the murder, trial, and execution constituting “The Kentucky Tragedy,” and to a second murder involving a son of the Governor of the state. In doing this, the paper ties the developments in money, banking, and the economy
Volume 10, No. 3 (Fall 2007) This book is a collection of ten previously published essays that address some of the most important questions of twentieth-century America. Robert Higgs provides detailed answers that challenge government propaganda of our past and provides ammunition for present and future policy deliberations. The essays are
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 101–111 [ The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression by Scott Sumner] The Midas Paradox is an impressive piece of scholarship, representing the magnum opus of economist Scott Sumner. What makes the book so unique is Sumner’s use of
Volume 17, No. 4 (Winter 2014) KEYWORDS: monetary policy, Mariana, Jefferson, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Austrian School, School of Salamanca, Philip II, Philip III, libertarianism, liberty, slavery, regicide, billon coins, Constitutionalism, Aragon, Euclid, Ron Paul, Paul Krugman JEL CLASSIFICATION: B1, B2, B3, N1, N4 What will I say about our own
[ Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 84–96 .] Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America By Nancy MacLean New York: Viking Press, 2017 The primary theme of Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean, a Duke University history professor, is that participation in
American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation Sarah L. Quinn Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019 289 pp. Patrick Newman (patrick.newm1@gmail.com) is assistant professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a fellow of its Center for Free Enterprise. He is also a fellow of the Mises Institute. This is a frustrating book.
Abstract : Murray Rothbard wrote an unpublished note in the early 1960s on the economics of antebellum slavery. Essentially, it was a criticism of the methodology of the New Economic History, or cliometrics, of which Conrad and Meyer (1958a) was the breakthrough application, on the topic of the profitability of slavery. Rothbard points out that
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets Thomas Philippon Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019 343 pp. David Gordon (dgordon@mises.org) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. Thomas Philippon, a French economist who teaches at New York University and advises both the US and French governments, likes the free market.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016 464 pp. Tate Fegley (tjf59@pitt.edu) is a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. American policing is in a crisis of legitimacy.
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