The authors of American Amnesia , well-known political scientists from Yale and Berkeley, argue that supporters of the free market have forgotten a fundamental truth. Defenders of the market often point to the “Great Fact,” as the distinguished economic historian Deirdre McCloskey terms it, i.e., the amazing increase in human well-being and wealth
Readers of Judge Napolitano’s outstanding book will at once be struck by its unusual title. What is the “suicide pact” referred to there? The phrase occurs in a famous dissenting opinion by Justice Robert Jackson. In Terminiello v. Chicago (1949), the Supreme Court held that the city of Chicago had wrongly restricted the free speech of an
In the 1930s, peasants who were starving because of the Soviet regime’s brutal farm collectivization policy lamented, “If only Stalin knew!” Nowadays, American social scientists look at floundering federal programs and lament: “If only Congress knew!” And the solution is the “evidence-based” reform movement which will magically beget a new era of
In Iraq and Afghanistan, US military officers routinely handed bundles of cash to local residents to buy influence and undermine resistance to the American occupation. Such payments came in especially handy after US troops inadvertently killed innocent civilians or sheep. Billions of dollars were shoveled out with little or no oversight as part of
[ Patrick Newman is editor of a forthcoming book by Murray Rothbard titled The Progressive Era. Dr. Newman recently spoke with us about the book and Rothbard’s innovative views on the period. ] THE AUSTRIAN: Why is this book only being published now and how did you become involved? PATRICK NEWMAN: The book totals 15 chapters and begins with an
Amity Shlaes is chairman of the board of trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, she is a classical liberal, and she knows economics. She much appreciates Mises’s emphasis on property and bureaucracy, both of which influence her work. She has authored six books, including three New York Times bestsellers, on Calvin Coolidge, the
Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union by Richard Kreitner Little, Brown, 2020 viii + 486 pages The extreme polarization in American politics today has led many people to ask: Is the United States too large? Don’t people who find the centralizing policies of the Leviathan state oppressive have the
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed Por Andrew Bacevich Metropolitan Books, 2021 Xiv + 206 páginas Andrew Bacevich, profesor de historia en la Universidad de Boston desde hace veintitrés años, ha escrito un excelente libro sobre la política exterior americano, pero está incrustado dentro de otro más amplio y cuestionable.
[ The Austrian 3, nº 4 (Julio-Agosto 2017)] THE AUSTRIAN: ¿Por qué se publica ahora este libro y como te viste implicado en él? PATRICK NEWMAN: El libro contiene quince capítulos y empieza con un manuscrito inédito (capítulos 1-9) que Rothbard escribió a finales de la década de 1970. A principios de la década de 1980 Rothbard dejó de trabajar en
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