Gordon, David, “The Befuddling World of the Antieconomist,” The Austrian 7, no. 6 (2021): 14–17. Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016–2020 By Thomas Piketty Yale University Press, 2021 352 pages Thomas Piketty has written a useful book. Readers need no longer plough their way through his vast Capital in the Twenty-First
Gordon, David, “The Befuddling World of the Antieconomist,” The Austrian 7, no. 6 (2021): 14–17. ¡Viva el socialismo!: Crónicas 2016–2020 Por Thomas Piketty Yale University Press, 2021 352 páginas Thomas Piketty ha escrito un libro útil. El lector ya no necesita leer su vasto El capital en el siglo XXI , ni su aún más extenso El capital y la
Once in a blue moon, the Austrian school attracts the attention of serious scholars outside of its tradition. In the months after Janek Wasserman at University of Alabama published The Marginal Revolutionaries in 2019, lots of Austrians revisited the old masters and the fin-de-siécle Vienna from which they stemmed: they found lots to like and even
Media Wars: The Battle to Shape Our Minds Walter Donway and Vinay Kolhatkar Independently Published, 2020, 330 pp. William L. Anderson (banderson@frostburg.edu) is professor of economics at Frostburg State University. Even the sunniest optimist would admit that the year 2020 was extremely challenging with the COVID-19 pandemic that hit our
Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy by Steven Kates Edward Elgar, 2020, 264 pp. Per Bylund (per.bylund@okstate.edu) is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, a Fellow of the Mises
Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin Basic Books, 2021 831 pp. Probably the dominant mainstream view of World War II goes like this. World War II was the “good war.” Though Joseph Stalin was guilty of many crimes, Adolf Hitler, with his vast conquests accompanied by mass murder on a colossal scale, was an immediate threat
Rigged! How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections by Mollie Hemingway Regnery Publishing, 2021, 432 pp. Mollie Hemingway, an editor of the online magazine The Federalist , calls our attention in this well-researched book to a problem of vital significance. She is a supporter of Donald Trump, though not an uncritical one, and
No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught and Probably Believe by Caleb S. Fuller Freiling Publishing, 2021. 110 pp. Caleb Fuller, an economist who teaches at Grove City College, thinks that many people have a mistaken conception of economics. It is, they think, a dull and dry subject, the “dismal science,” of primary interest to
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T.M. Scanlon Oxford University Press, 2018, 170 pp. T.M. Scanlon, who taught philosophy for many years at Princeton and Harvard, is one of the leading moral and political philosophers of the past fifty years or so. Though far from a libertarian, he takes libertarian views with great seriousness and has endeavored to
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter New York: Random House, 2020, 656 pp. Abstract: Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes is a new intellectual biography of a person who is arguably the most important person of the twentieth
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